Moishe Friedman

Moishe Arye Friedman (* 17th February 1972 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American , in Antwerp ( Belgium ) living ultra-Orthodox Jew and Zionist , the Holocaust denial are accused of fraud and title fraud.

Friedman claims to be chief rabbi of a devout “anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish community in Vienna”. Since he does not have a rabbi diploma, however, he is referred to by critics as a "rabbi actor" and the community as "an officially unrecognized one-man company".

family

Moishe Arye Friedman was born in Brooklyn, the eldest son of a family in the Satmar Jewish community. He spent his youth in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY). His father, a businessman, was born in Germany after World War II ; his mother is from Brooklyn. His paternal and maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. He is married to Lea Rosenzweig and has eight children.

Life

Friedman is a member of the anti-Zionist ultra-orthodox Neturei Karta movement .

Friedman tried several times to set up his own officially recognized anti-Zionist community to compete with the Vienna Israelite Cultural Community (IKG) , but did not succeed. His “Orthodox Jewish Community Vienna Austria” is neither recognized by the Austrian state nor by the majority of the Jewish community in Austria or the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien. He is banned from entering all premises of the IKG Vienna.

Friedman lived for a time in the Belgian Antwerp , but left the country after a personal bankruptcy. He then went to Vienna, where in 2000 he illegally took possession of the Jewish prayer house at Lorbeergasse 9, stealing two Torah scrolls that were reported missing in 2002. During a house search in November 2007, the two valuable Torah scrolls were found in Friedman's apartment. After Chief Rabbi Eisenberg and all other rabbis of Vienna condemned Friedman's behavior, Friedman tried to found his own Jewish community. However, due to a lack of members, the “Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish Community” was not officially recognized.

2003 supported Friedman the CDU - members of parliament Martin Hohmann after it as anti-Semitic criticized speech on the Day of German Unity on October 3, 2003. In July, 2004, the Neturei Karta in Vienna an "international anti-Zionist rabbi Conference" on the Friedman gave the opening speech and who also Hohmann participated as a speaker.

In February 2006 Friedman took part in an international conference organized by the Iranian government in Isfahan on the Mohammed cartoon dispute. Among other things, he said there: "We also pray for a bloodless end to the State of Israel, so that Jews and Muslims in the Middle East can live together in peace again, as they have done for centuries."

On October 21, 2006, he was a speaker at the Al Quds Day demonstration in Berlin, including at the closing rally.

In December 2006 Friedman took part in the Holocaust conference in Tehran , organized by the Iranian government , at which he claimed, referring to the Holocaust , "that the masterminds behind the scenes and some war criminals themselves were Zionists ". He was also quoted as saying that the Holocaust was "a successful fiction". In response to criticism of their participation, the organization stated:

"We affirmed the reality of the mass murder of Jews during the Second World War."

"We reaffirmed the reality of the mass murder of Jews during World War II."

- Neturei Karta: Why We Went to Iran

Since then Friedman has been called a Holocaust denier by various quarters .

Friedman himself believes that his opinion is completely misrepresented in the press and calls it "a lie".

As a result, on January 11, 2007, he was expelled from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien "for grossly damaging behavior, in particular his contacts with historical revisionist , anti-Semitic circles, and relevant statements" and he was reported to the public prosecutor on suspicion of violating § 3 g and Section 3h Prohibition Act (National Socialist activity and downplaying the National Socialist genocide).

During a visit to Poland in March 2007, Friedman was assaulted by Yehuda Meshi-Zahav , co-founder of the Israeli ZAKA organization, and two other people who recognized him as a participant in the Tehran “Holocaust Conference”.

Since the end of 2011 he has been living in Antwerp again. There he tried to have his children taught in a Jewish school. After a few unsuccessful attempts, he was able to obtain an injunction that forces Jewish schools to teach Friedman's children under threat of heavy fines. However, this injunction was revised at the next instance. In June 2013 a Belgian court of appeal finally ruled that Jewish schools are obliged to accept Friedman's children, as the father's political views should not influence the treatment of the children.

In March 2013, Friedman wished a nine-year-old police investigation into a murder case would be reopened. Friedman claimed that Moshe Yitzchak Naeh was murdered by the "Jewish Mafia".

Rabbi Pinkas Kornfeld , Vice-President of the Flemish Forum of Jewish Organizations ( Vlaams Forum der Joodse Organisaties ), says Friedman is a troublemaker who only wants to damage the reputation of his opponents.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Karl Pfeifer : A revisionist rabbi actor in Tehran. Guest post in the blog "Liza's World", December 16, 2006
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kultusgemeinde: Moishe Friedman is not a recognized rabbi , article on derstandard.at from December 24, 2006, accessed on July 3, 2020
3. ↑ Brenda Gazzar, in: The Jewish Week , Moishe Arye Friedman  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 68 kB)  
4. ↑ Muslim-Markt interviews Lea Rosenzweig, wife of Chief Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman and mother of four children who are no longer allowed to go to school in Vienna , article on muslim-markt.de of August 6, 2007, accessed on July 3, 2020
5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Henri Rosenberg, Puntjes op de “i” , July 31, 2013, accessed September 3, 2013.
6. ↑ Risk of a split? on haGalil , December 27, 2001, accessed September 16, 2008.
7. ↑ Article “Moshe Arieh Friedmann” on haGalil , December 14, 2006, accessed September 16, 2008
8. ↑ according to the judgment of the District Court of Inner City Vienna of April 2005, file number 36 R 185 / 02a of April 21, 2005
9. ↑ Press release of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien , November 19, 2007, accessed on November 19, 2007
10. ^ Moishe Friedman. International Rabbinical Conference ( Memento of the original of October 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Opening address by Chief Rabbi Friedman, July 1, 2004, accessed September 16, 2008 
11. ^ Moishe Friedman. Palestine Platform Austria ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Speech by Rabbi Friedman at the Int. Conference Esfahan Iran 
12. ↑ Muslim-Markt interviews Chief Rabbi Moische Arie Friedman at the “Day of Jerusalem” rally on October 21, 2006 in Berlin
13. ^ Holocaust conference in Tehran - speech by Moshe , accessed on December 10, 2012.
14. ↑ Neturei Karta: Why We Went to Iran (accessed March 7, 2010)
15. ↑ Fathi, Nazila. "Israel fading, Iran's Leader Tells Of deniers Holocaust" , The New York Times , December 13, 2006 accessed 29 May, 2008.
16. ↑ "ZAKA head hits Neturei-Karta rabbi"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jerusalem Post , March 12, 2007, accessed May 29, 2008.  
17. ↑ Tait, Robert. "Holocaust deniers gather in Iran for 'scientific' conference" , The Guardian , December 12, 2006, accessed May 29, 2008. "Moshe Arye Friedman, an Austrian rabbi, argued that the figure of six million Jewish dead had come from a prophecy by Theodore Herzl, founder of modern Zionism, long before the second world war. He said recent research suggested the true figure was about one million. "
18. ↑ Boycott Jews who attended Iran conference, top rabbi urges , CBC , December 14, 2006, accessed May 29, 2008. “Metzger said. 'To deny the most sensitive issue in Jewish history, and to co-operate with the Hitler of our day? One of those men introduced himself as the chief rabbi of Austria - and he's not even a rabbi. '"
19. ↑ Dutch: "een leugen": Jan Heuvelmans; Douglas De Coninck, Friedman: " We think he niet aan Antwerpen te verlaten" (We are not thinking of leaving Antwerp) on politics.be where the source is: PagiA-nieuwsgaring, Media Services ( www.mediaservices.be )
20. ^ IKG Vienna: Moishe Arye Friedman is not a recognized rabbi, just a self-promoter. IKG files a complaint with the public prosecutor's office and expels Moishe Arye Friedman from membership. ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.9 MB) In: Die Gemeinde , issue no.594, January 2007, page 20. 
21. ^ Anti-Zionist Rabbi Beaten by Jews in Poland for Attending Holocaust Denial Conference in Iran
22. ^ JTA: Antwerp Jewish Girls School Forced to Admit Holocaust Denier's Boys or Pay Fine . In: Jewish Press , December 29, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2012. 
23. ↑ Zaak school kids Friedman. Hof van Beroep establishes school in het gelijk. . In: Joods Actueel , February 6, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2013. 
24. ↑ YARD VAN BEROEP GEEFT OMSTREDEN RABBIJN GELIJK. Children Mosje Friedman like naar joodse school. . June 25, 2013. 
25. ↑ Het Nieuwsblad , March 6, 2013, Controversiële rabbijn wil heropening moordzaak
26. ↑ Behadrey Haredim, March 8, 2013, Moshe Aryeh Friedman blames: Community leaders of Antwerp murdered an avrech nine years ago
27. ↑ Cnaan Lipshiz, in: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), March 11, 2013, Antwerp Jewish leader dismisses outcast Friedman's murder-coverup-allegations