Monsey, NY – Late this morning Leib Tropper, the head of Yeshiva Kol Yaakov in Monsey resigned his position as Rosh Yeshiva of the institution. The new incoming Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Dovid Stefansky Shlita, a maggid shiur in the Yeshiva. Kol Yaakov is staffed by fine Talmidei Chachomim among whom are some quite distinguished Torah scholars.
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Tropper indicated that he was resigning so that the Monsey-based Bais Din will not continue their investigations into allegations against him.
The Yeshiva building is owned by a corporation entitled “Kol Yaakov Torah Center, Inc. It is located at 29 West Maple Avenue, Monsey, NY 10952.
The three principals of the corporation that owns the property are Leib Tropper, David Jacobs, and Moshe Raice.
“This is a welcome first step,” said one askan involved in the investigation, “however, the Torah community needs written assurances that Tropper’s name will be taken off the paperwork and Rabbi Stefansky’s name will be placed in his stead. Also, further steps need to be taken to ensure that this is not just a ploy and that he will not have anything further to do with the Yeshiva.”
Previously, Rabbi Elya Svei Zatzal had made a similar request in regard to Leib Tropper, the 5TJT was told by a prominent Rosh Yeshiva.
“There were indications that Tropper still had plans to return to the helm of the Eternal Jewish Foundation notwithstanding his December 12th resignation, so it is important to ensure that this type of thing does not happen,” remarked a legal consultant to the Monsey-based Bais Din. “It is our hope that Leib Tropper will cooperate with the Bais Din.”
“Expenses associated with this investigation could reach tens of thousands of dollars,” the consultant continued, “so hopefully we can wrap this up shortly.”
About time
what a chillul hashem!!
the gemoro says that no amount of teshuva can atone for chillul hashem. only a person’s death is ‘mechaper’!!
Is Tropper opening a branch in Texas?
With his integrity as a Yid, and certainly a Torah leader under serious question, he should not have any rabbinical position of any kind until there is complete clearance and proven innocence. While I do not believe all I read on the internet, this seems quite unlikely. Furthermore, anyone else that is connected to him that is a Torah based organization should sever their ties likewise. It would be a shame for anyone who is legitimate, organization or individual, to go down with his sinking ship.
Good, now this fine Yeshiva can keep its good name.
Interesting to note that Tropper has not yet denied any of the allegations against him. He has finally resigned all his positions but has steadfastly not denied anything. I wonder, is Tropper also stonewalling Hashem or did he make a cheshbon and have charoteh? What will he say on Yom Kippur? Will he say chotosi poshahti, or will he say, darn those guys at 5 Towns Jewish Times, why can’t they just leave me alone.
What is he being investigated for?
Why would an innocent man resign?
wow. rabbi stefansky is a tzaddik!!!!!!! he was my rebbe in yeshivas ohr reuven, and is an amazing man. i hope this doesnt mean that my yeshiva loses him!
What Happened To Innocent Untill Proven Guilty. Also To All Of You Who Are So Worried About His Yom kipur Im Sure You All Have Plenty To Do For Yourselvs On Yom hadin Your Not Such A Tzadik Dont Worry About Him.
Mr Leib Tropper seems to forget what our holy of holiest gemarah says:
הבועל ארמית קנאים פוגעים בו
Mr Tropper do a lot of Tsuvah.
Time to close the book on him now, he’s surrendered everything & undergone serious bizayon, with repentance he can clear his slate in heaven.
Stefansky is a good man, hopefully he was not tainted by Tropper and is not just a figure head, while Tropper still controls the puppet strings . The hope is that he will run a Tropper free yeshiva.
What kind of business is this that he is quitting so that the Beis din stops the investigation?! Finish the investigation so that its 1000000% clear to everyone what he did so that he can never have any role relating to Judaism ever again!!!
And to # 6 why the hell is it your beeswax what he dose in his cheshbon with regard to the ribono shel olam yes as a leader we need to throw him out and know hr I’d not a rebby we should learn from nor a leader we should follow but in his personal life as wring as it is and it’s wrong he is an oisvorf but that’s his issues and no one elses it’s his choice to do teshuvah or not to not ours we are only our concern as it regards to his positan in klal yisrole evrything beyond that is Assur and is pure Lashonda horah
how could it have taken so long? how could anyone have continued to learn in taht yeshiva?!
about time!!
i am so excited about his resignation,that i feel that i just want to squeeze him!!!
What/which “monsey-based” beis din?
nebach
ifeel so bad for him & his wife
His wife supports him – and she knows the emes. That says a lot!! (Either about him or about her).
lets hope we can all move forward from this …. lets stop with the loshon horah …. we really don`t know the truth behind all this….
He was under tremendous pressure. So , obviously , he struck a deal. The question is with whom ? Stay tuned .
they say he is still in charge of horizons which is umbrella org. to ejf and other outfits
Something is ,not ( kosher ) in Monseyland !
Will he move to Baltimore like the Deal guy?
What will he do for parnasa now?
I think they should offer Slifkin the job?
Jail? why? He did what the other Slifkin basher did? I guess that was on another site.
He may have been unethical, but what was the legal crime? I understand it may have been chilul hashem, but USA law doesn’t care more than the dollar bill.
mistama if u hold lemafreiah then he had relations with a goya
but if u hold mekan olhaba then he is chayav meesa
I’m getting the feeling that he didn’t want to leave, rather he was “squeezed” out and he’s taking it “hard”.
Boruch Shepotrani !!!! Good riddance !!!! Hopefully this is legit & he also has NO shaychus with Horizons or ANY jewish organization or school etc.
Maybe he can sell insurance or become a computer programmer etc. or a spokesman for Saving Wild Tigers Inc. or retire with a Kaplan pension.
Hope he does teshuva and we can put this disgusting episode behind us.
I hope Kol Yakov will thrive now that he is gone. They have a very competent staff of Talmidei Chachomim & mentors that can contribute much to the world of kiruv.
What a shame, he had to resign! I think its about time for people to let go of him! Remember! Yesh did vyesh dayan, drinking a persons blood also has its limits.
What did he do wrong??
She was a pnuya, she was not jewish, she was not coerced, his wife even knew and approved of the relationship.
So, I repeat, what is the big aveira here?? Why is such a man, who did so much for the klal, being so mercilessly persecuted?
Raboisai!! This has to stop!!
Where is the support for poor R’ Slifkin who did nothing and lost his parnoso?
He resigned ! A nechtiger tog.. Rabbi Topper is resigned .to to the fate that surely awaits him.
# 9 i hope you are right!! RABBI STEFANSKY is a “FINE JEW”!!!!! I love him as a Rebbe!! I hope he stays!!
I don’t know trooper and never heard of ejf till this scandal
But an creditable attorney a big talmid chochom told me that the only reason why doesn’t come out to deny is that he and his children are still has a dead treat on his life
Here is another twist. Is anyone aware that 3 rabbis in israel completed her conversion yesterday? What’s up with that. Can’t they wait till this brewhaha is resolved. Totally unresponsible
Reply to # 27. I regret the remark I made about Monseyland. I apologize for my insesitive remark. Please ,accept my apology.Thanking you in advance.
their we go again! Having rachmanos on the perpertrator/violator and not on the victim!!! it’s these “little” things that prevents Moshiach from coming…let’s just sweep it under the carpet again so that we can keep our carpets fluffy in monseyland
Whatever anyone wants to say about rabbi tropper negatively, there are hundreds of families in klal yisroel who are frum today due to this man. he has been in kiruv for years and has inspired thousands. Ein tzadik baolam asher lo yechta!!! we better be careful before we judge becase who knows in shamayim how they see him and who knows if we are even close
I’m in that photo! Soo cool.
monsey man:
while you correct about that rashi, we’re not sticking a spear in his side! the case calls for this, because he is such an insidious character, who has proven himself through the years as someone who will go to any length to destroy people whom he does not like, so it is imperative for all of us to destroy him to the point where he will have no coiach in any community! keep in mind that while he was the rosh yeshiva, he was still spreading rumors about his enemies that ended in people getting divorced, breaking up shidduchim, costing people money and so fourth.
i personally had an issue with him, and he told the parents of all of the girls i dated after that that i did not HAVE KOSHER YICHUS!, that i was not sane, that my parents were blood drinking swingers, and that i had had an affair with an eishes ish! it was a total lie! he even called my kallahs father three weeks before the wedding day to convince him not to do the shidduch. i waited in the dark, under the skylight, all alone in the wedding hall
now im 31 and still single.
ich zug dir tzu, this will not cease until he is in prison, because until then he’s a threat to my own, and to other peoples existence
Wow! Ironic!! What Hashgacha Pratis!! Look carefully again at the picture above. Tropper is raising his hands (I give up?) in front of Rabbi Ribiat’s sefer 39 melachos on the table (lying just beyond the Art Scroll siddurim)!!
Gevaldik!!
So, to be honest, last time I posted on this subject I got backstabbed all over. And yet, I am doing it again, because I have a question I want all you chachamim to answer. “hagam ratzachta v’gam yarashta?” I like how everyone wants him to “resign” from what is his. You did not build that Yeshiva. You did not collect Neshamos from all over the world and give them their first taste of Torah. You did not produce hundreds of Yereim U’Shlaimim and countless Talmidei Chachamim and Rabbonim. Rabbi Tropper did that. Kol Yaakov is Rabbi Tropper and Rabbi Tropper is Kol Yaakov. What next — do you want him to resign his face? His hands? Should he resign as father of his children?
it’s not loshon hara if it can save other people’s lives. it is pekuach nefesh – information that will save lives and protect others from this kind of harrassmant and criminal act. many people do good in public only to high the disgusting things they do in private. kol hakavod to the woman who is brave enough to bring this out into the open!
Give up the baba basras, gittins and kedushins and start teaching the basics of being a frum jew. No yeshiva out there is teaching this. After what this slimeball did, perhaps this yeshiva can be the pioneer in a radical change in the yeshiva cirriculum. Time to bring back kiddush hashem into the foreground, not chilul hashem.
this is the problem with control freak rabbis once they dont like someone they will do anything to hurt them and use the torah with conflicting self interest and never admit it to themselves hurting many a persons lifes ;i am wittness to many of these cases