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Old May 18th, 2015 #1
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Default Rabbi Barry Starr: Jewish Con-Man and Homosexual Predator

Rabbi Barry Starr: Jewish Con-Man and Homosexual Predator


Last week we saw what is probably the final bit of drama in and around the exposure of a prominent leader of Bostonian jewry, Rabbi Barry Starr, as a con-man and a mentally-ill sexual predator. As you may or may not recall Rabbi Starr is a former president of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis, a former member of Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (which sets halakhic policy for the whole Conservative jewish movement in the United States), a leader of Conservative Judaism in general and the former rabbi of Temple Israel Synagogue in Boston. (1)

On the 6th May 2014 Starr spectacularly resigned his positions of responsibility due to what he rather euphemistically referred to as 'marital infidelity and other serious personal conduct'. (2) The same week Benjamin Maron, the executive director of Temple Israel Synagogue, told all the congregants to put a stop on any uncleared checks to Rabbi Starr's discretionary fund.

This was because it had emerged that Rabbi Starr had been using some of the money donated by his congregation for his material support and good works to pay Nick Zemeitus who was blackmailing him. Starr had also borrowed $50,000 from a congregant who has been described as a 'holocaust survivor', while the total he had paid out to Zemeitus was $480,000 over just two years. (3)

What was the reason for this blackmail?

Well initially it was believed that Zemetius had discovered that the 64 year old Rabbi Starr, a married father of two, had seduced a 16 year old boy (who may or may not have actually been 16 at the time as the reports are unclear) and was having regular sex with him on the congregation of Temple Israel's dime. (4)

It turns out however that while it was partly that (as Zemeitus had emails between Starr and his erstwhile teenage 'boyfriend' and photos of them together) (5); the actual reason Zemeitus knew about Starr's freakish homosexual desires was because Starr had advertised for sex as a middle-aged woman on Craigslist, which Zemeitus answered. (6)

Starr then opened the door to Zemetius wearing a dress at which point the latter was (understandably) disgusted. (7) It is worth dwelling on that a moment; if you look a photo of Starr he is a corpulent heavily bearded man. What kind of a freak do you have to be to advertise yourself for sex on Craiglist as a middle-aged woman when you are in fact a bearded, pot-bellied old man who appears to like wearing dresses?

Zemetius then threatened Rabbi Starr with exposure to his wife and Starr promptly offered him $100 as hush money and kept paying. (8) Regardless of what you think of Zemeitus (and I most own that given the description of him by the Boston Magazine he sounds like a particularly vile individual); Rabbi Starr is the true villain of this piece in spite of the attempts by the Jewish Daily Forward and the JTA to villify Zemetius while rescuing some shred of Starr's shattered dignity. (9)

After all Starr didn't have to advertise on Craigslist for sex pretending to be a middle-aged woman. Nobody forced him to open his own door to Zemeitus dressed as a fat bearded lady. No one held a gun to his head and made him seduce a teenage boy who may, or may not, have been 16. There was no obvious reason to offer Zemeitus a bribe to hush up his sexual misconduct and even less reason to keeping paying more and more money to him.

No Rabbi Starr was not a victim; he was a sick sexual predator who got caught and then tried to cover up his own double life by commiting even more crime to pay off Zemeitus.


References


(1) http://forward.com/news/198975/story...aken-by-rabbi/
(2) Ibid.
(3) http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/a...starr-scandal/
(4) http://forward.com/news/breaking-new...sh-money-case/
(5) http://www.jta.org/2015/05/12/news-o...fair-with-teen
(6) http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/a...starr-scandal/
(7) Ibid.
(8) Ibid.
(9) Cf. http://forward.com/news/breaking-new...sh-money-case/ and http://www.jta.org/2015/05/12/news-o...fair-with-teen

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This was originally published at the following address: http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot...n-man-and.html
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from beginning to end this story is par for the course, no?
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