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Queens Yeshiva Boss Is a Molester: Boy's Mom,
New York Post, March 31, 2002
"Sara Leven found her 17-year-old son Daniel blue-faced, hanging from the shower curtain rod - a tie pinched around his neck. The vision gnaws at Leven's heart because the rabbi she claims molested her boy when he was 5 - which she believes drove her son to suicide - is free and teaching kids at a Queens yeshiva. The 57-year-old Canadian has pursued Rabbi Ephraim B. Bryks, 49, since her son's death in 1993. Winnipeg. Montreal. Queens. 'It never goes away,' said Leven in a shaken voice. 'It's unfinished business. He's never been brought to justice and I live with it every day. He's alive. He's thriving. I have to reveal who he really is.' Bryks, a respected scholar, a Queens religious-court judge and a Renaissance man in the city's Orthodox community, was never charged after investigations by police, a social-service agency and Orthodox Jewish leaders here and in Canada. 'She's chasing him," said Rabbi Shlomo Nisanov, administrator at the Yeshiva Berachel David-Torah HS in Flushing, which Bryks created and operates. 'The accusations are baseless, they keep coming up. He is not an animal.' Yet there have been at least three other known child-molestation allegations against Bryks, in Winnipeg, Canada, dating to 1988 when he ran a yeshiva attended by Daniel Leven. A claim by a 14-year-old girl spurred a 1988 investigation by Winnipeg Child and Family Services, which cleared Bryks of any criminal wrongdoing but criticized the rabbi for tickling, hugging and letting students sit on his lap. The report also noted that accusers faced a backlash so intense in the close-knit Jewish community, it 'might prevent any child from coming forth with the disclosure.'"