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1. 1. RabbiWatch.com :: View topic - Rabbi Lewis Brenner

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   Published on: 5/12/2007   Last Visited: 5/12/2007

   Rabbi Lewis Brenner
   
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   Case of Rabbi Lewis Brenner
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   People v. Rabbi Lewis Brenner (03/14/1997)
   
   Retroactive Effect Given Megan's Law Fed'l, State Rulings Diverge, Judge Notes (03/14/1997)
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   Ruling yesterday in People v. Lewis Brenner, filed in Supreme Court, Kings County, Criminal Term Part AP F1,Acting Justice Charles J. Heffernan noted, after an extensive review of 15 opinions in 13 cases across the country which have considered whether Megan's Laws should be applied to all offenders retoactively, that "there is a marked divergence of opinion between federal and state courts."
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   After conducting a hearing last October, the judge concluded that Mr. Brenner had been subjected to shunning within his Orthodox Jewish community (he had to resign from the temple he founded and received a letter threatening him unless he stayed off the block where his congregation was located), but "it would appear that defendant has been able to retain considerable stability in
   
   his life with limited exceptions." Justice Heffernan noted that Mr. Brenner had been accepted by another religious congregation despite knowledge of thecharges in the case.
   
   "[Defendant] failed to demonstrate that the effects of any form of community notification, should it be authorized, would be appreciably beyond those which arose without such notification," he said. Thus there was no basis for a finding that the notification "would be an affirmative disability or restraint upon defendant."
   
   Mr. Brenner had been charged with 14 counts of sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child arising from sexual contact with the same youth whom he allegedly met in the bathroom of the temple they both attended. The sexual contact was alleged to have been committed over a three-year period until October 1995, when the then 15-year-old told authorities.
   
   He agreed to plead guilty to one count of sodomy in the third degree, a Class E felony, in exchange for a sentence of five years' probation.
   
   Mr. Brenner was represented by Marvin E. Schechter.

2. 2. Case of Rabbi Lewis Brenner (AKA: Lippa Brenner) (Brooklyn, NY)

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   Published on: 6/30/2006   Last Visited: 12/3/2007

   Rabbi Louis Brenner (AKA: Rabbi Lipa Brenner) | Rabbi Lewis Brenner,
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   Case of Rabbi Lewis Brenner
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   Note: Rabbi Lewis Brenner's daughter Yochevad, is married to Rabbi Ephraim Bryks.
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   Ruling yesterday in People v. Lewis Brenner, filed in Supreme Court, Kings County, Criminal Term Part AP F1, Acting Justice Charles J. Heffernan noted, after an extensive review of 15 opinions in 13 cases across the country which have considered whether Megan's Laws should be applied to all offenders retoactively, that "there is a marked divergence of opinion between federal and state courts."
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   After conducting a hearing last October, the judge concluded that Mr. Brenner had been subjected to shunning within his Orthodox Jewish community (he had to resign from the temple he founded and received a letter threatening him unless he stayed off the block where his congregation was located), but "it would appear that defendant has been able to retain considerable stability in his life with limited exceptions." Justice Heffernan noted that Mr. Brenner had been accepted by another religious congregation despite knowledge of thecharges in the case.
   
   "[Defendant] failed to demonstrate that the effects of any form of community notification, should it be authorized, would be appreciably beyond those which arose without such notification," he said. Thus there was no basis for a finding that the notification "would be an affirmative disability or restraint upon defendant."
   
   Mr. Brenner had been charged with 14 counts of sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child arising from sexual contact with the same youth whom he allegedly met in the bathroom of the temple they both attended. The sexual contact was alleged to have been committed over a three-year period until October 1995, when the then 15-year-old told authorities.
   
   He agreed to plead guilty to one count of sodomy in the third degree, a Class E felony, in exchange for a sentence of five years' probation.
   
   Mr. Brenner was represented by Marvin E. Schechter.
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   According to the New York Law Journal, Schechter represented Brooklyn Rabbi Lewis Brenner, who pleaded guilty to a charge of sodomy after being charged with 14 counts of sodomy, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.
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   According to the Journal, prosecutors said Brenner had sexual contact with a youth he met in the bathroom of the temple they both attended. The molestations allegedly took place over a three-year period that ended in 1995 when the victim was 15 years old, the Journal reported. Rabbi Brenner was sentenced to five years probation.
   
   The Lanner investigation reportedly began after one of the victims' allegations were reported in New York Jewish Week in July 2000. The newspaper conducted an investigation that turned up abuse claims by 25 of Lanner's former students, most from the job he held before he came to Hillel High School in 1982.
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   In 1995, for instance, Hynes' office charged Rabbi Lewis Brenner with repeatedly sexually abusing a boy starting in 1992 and ending in 1995, when the boy, then 15, told police.
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   "Do you realize that you destroyed a world and our family, Mr. Brenner? You have stolen from our son the very essence of his life, his hopes, dreams and aspirations for the future."
   
   The charges against Brenner initially included 14 counts, including sodomy, sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a minor.
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   The plea arrangement left Brenner a free man -- he got 5 years probation.
   
   Brenner is the father-in-law of Ephraim Bryks, a Queens rabbi who was the subject of a story in Newsday on Tuesday.
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   The following article was written by Rabbi Paysach Krohn, and is about convicted sex offender, Rabbi (Lewis) Lipa Brenner.

3. 3. unitedstatescentralcommand.com

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   Published on: 10/16/2007   Last Visited: 6/1/2008

   Case of Rabbi Lewis Brenner (AKA: Lippa Brenner) (Brooklyn, NY) (Convicted of child molestation.