Conviction Jewish institutions and contexts Hasidic and Haredi communities Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, USA · 2012

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi Moshe Keller: guilty plea for endangering the welfare of a child after abusing a teenage boy

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi; ran an organization for at-risk Chabad youth in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Organization

Chabad-Lubavitch, Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Archive classification

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Keller's standing as a Chabad rabbi running an outreach program for at-risk Chabad youth gave him the access and trust that placed the victim in his care; the abuse occurred within that religious-outreach relationship rather than a secular or family one.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2012-05-01 · guilty plea and sentence

Kings County Criminal Court, Brooklyn, New York. Moshe Keller pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child, arising from sexually assaulting a then-15-year-old boy in 2009, and was sentenced to three years' probation. Charges were brought in 2011 after a third accuser, Mordechai Feinstein, came forward; prior allegations dating back roughly two decades in Israel had not been disclosed to the New York community when Keller relocated.

Documented coercion mechanisms

rabbinic authority within the Chabad-Lubavitch community
trusted access to a vulnerable teenage boy through a youth-outreach role

Cited record

Sources

magazine journalism case history Rachel Silberstein, 'Watching the Jewish Community Watch and Its "Wall of Shame"', Tablet Magazine (2013).: Discusses the Moshe Keller case as part of a wider account of the Jewish Community Watch's tracking of accused abusers in the Chabad-Lubavitch community, including the 2012 plea and sentence.
survivor advocacy case summary Manny Waks, 'Convicted paedophile Moshe Keller in Melbourne' (advocacy blog, n.d.).: Survivor-advocate summary of Keller's conviction history, including the 2012 New York plea to endangering the welfare of a child and the earlier Israeli conviction, used here for corroboration of the New York disposition only.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jewish-community-watch Corpus classification: magazine-journalism; evidentiary role: case-history.
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Source and tier basis: https://www.mannywaks.com/blog/convicted-paedophile-moshe-keller-in-melbourne Corpus classification: survivor-advocacy; evidentiary role: case-summary. SHA-256 47bb78e9b5d36d9ab51dfda2ebde53ddbaf4b33b3f5e794fc974449780589385
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