He described himself as a risk-taking rabbi who had been beaten up, thrown in jail and gone $US175,000 into debt
on expeditions
to Eastern Europe and Russia.
He said his mission was to rescue and restore Torahs that had been wrenched from their communities during the Holocaust” and place them with congregations that would look after them.
I guess you could call me the Jewish Indiana Jones,
he wrote in 2004.
But on Wednesday, the rabbi, Menachem Youlus, was arrested in Manhattan on fraud charges. Court papers said he had never gone to the far-flung places he talked about and had made up the stories he told about discovering Torahs at the sites of the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps — or in Iraq in 2007 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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