Libovits in Court on November 19

According to Haredi blogger Failed Messiah, pedophile rabbi Baruch Lebovits will appear in Brooklyn Criminal Court on November 19.

The court date may relate to what Jewish Week sources say could be a jail-free plea deal.

After Libovits was convicted in 2010 on 8 courts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to a term of 10-32 years in jail, his conviction was overturned on a technicality in 2012

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"Justice for Kellner" Protest at Brooklyn D.A.'s Office

Chaim Levin, an Orthodox Jewish activist from Crown Heights, organized a demonstration yesterday outside Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes's office at 350 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn to protest the prosecution of Sam Kellner, who outed prominent Borough Park cantor/travel agent Baruch Lebovits to the Brooklyn D.A.'s office as a serial child sexual abuser.

At the demonstration, Levin called on

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Paying the Price for Coming Forward

In 2008, Borough Park resident Sam Kellner got permission from an upstate rabbinical court to report to Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes' office that his teenaged son had been sexually molested by Baruch Lebovits, a prominent local cantor and travel agent.

Kellner told prosecutors that Satmar power brokers representing Lebovits had tried to bribe him out of cooperating in the case.

When its

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