Sex scandal fallout ends
rabbi-exec's career
01/23/01
BY JOSH MARGOLIN
STAR-LEDGER STAFF
The sex and abuse scandal that has laid waste to the
reputation of a prominent Bergen County rabbi has
now claimed the career of the chief executive of the
largest Orthodox Jewish organization in the world.
Rabbi Raphael Butler of Queens resigned Friday as
executive vice president of the Manhattan-based
Orthodox Union, less than a month after a special
investigative commission found that inaction at the top
of the organization allowed decades of abuse by
Rabbi Baruch Lanner of Fair Lawn to continue
unchecked.
The resignation took effect immediately, and there
was no attempt to sugarcoat it as the Orthodox Union
made it clear that Butler quit because he was one of
the leaders who knew about Lanner's activities long
before they were made public.
Lanner was found to have abused -- sexually,
physically and emotionally -- teenagers entrusted to
his care while he ran the New Jersey region of the
National Conference of Synagogue Youth, the
Orthodox Union's youth organization, and worked at
two New Jersey yeshivas, both of them high schools.
Criminal investigations into Lanner's activities in
Bergen and Monmouth counties are continuing.
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