Married NYC rabbi Yosef Mordechai Paryzer is charged with ‘rape by deception’ and arrested in Jerusalem after ‘duping 30 women’ with fake Tinder profile pretending to be a secular bachelor

Married New York rabbi Yosef Mordechai Paryzer is accused of ‘fraudulent rape’ and arrested in Jerusalem after she ‘tricked 30 women’ with a fake Tinder profile posing as a secular bachelor

  • Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Paryzer, 35, was arrested in Jerusalem last week
  • He is accused of using fake Tinder and Bumble profiles to date dozens of women
  • His lawyer says his actions may be immoral, but not illegal

A married New York City rabbi has been arrested in Israel for ‘rape by deceit’ after his double life as secular dating app Romeo came to light.

Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Paryzer, 35, has been charged with criminal charges of using a false identity to get women to have sex with him — with one of the relationships lasting more than seven years.

The father-of-two allegedly used fake names like Jake Segal to set up online dating profiles on sites like Tinder and Bumble and dated many of the women at the same time.

Two of the women he fooled filed criminal charges with the Israeli police for rape by cheating, and an investigation led to Parazer’s arrest. Authorities say they have interviewed another 18 women and a dozen more have come forward since Paryzer’s arrest.

Originally from Brooklyn, the rabbi moved to Israel about a decade ago and worked as a teacher at a Jewish school, but was fired.

Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Paryzer, 35, faces criminal charges for using a false identity to induce women to have sex with him

The father-of-two allegedly used fake names like Jake Segal to set up online dating profiles on sites like Tinder and Bumble

Consensual sex performed under false pretenses, that is. false identity of the perpetrator, is a criminal offense legally defined as rape,” the prosecutors said on social media, as reported by i24ews.

Police say Paryzer would tell unsuspecting women that he was single and living with roommates while working for a nonprofit organization as a dog trainer for the blind.

One of the women told Fox News digital she met the rabbi on Tinder and he seemed “very normal.” The two reportedly discussed a future together after a few months of dating.

But the woman began to notice red flags in the relationship, as she was never invited to his apartment and he didn’t want to spend weekends together, claiming he had roommates and had to keep the Jewish Sabbath.

It wasn’t until they had a fight over a month ago and she went to the building where she thought he lived that she found out he didn’t actually live there.

The woman then remembered the names of two women he had mentioned and followed on Instagram, and was able to track them down. The women then told her that they were currently in a relationship with the rabbi or had recently broken up with him.

The women then collected more names and found more who were or had been involved with the rabbi through his false identity.

“I also reached out to those women and heard very similar stories,” the first woman told Fox News Digital.

Originally from Brooklyn, the rabbi moved to Israel about a decade ago and worked as a teacher at a Jewish school, but was fired after his arrest

“The conversations we had were devastating and very emotional.”

The women then decided to confront Paryzer by inviting him to one of their apartments, where several of the alleged victims were present and demanded the truth.

But Paryzer initially only admitted to dating all the women and said he was lost and depressed.

The women only later discovered that he was a rabbi and a married father of two young children, one of whom was just born.

Another woman told Fox News Digital that she met Paryzer on Bumble and knew him as Jake Segel.

She had introduced him to her parents, and her mother expressed concern when she couldn’t find anything about him online or through the Jewish community.

Paryzer reportedly said he had a panic attack when confronted, and the two broke up.

“My friends keep telling me I’m so strong, but there are still times when I feel totally drained and confused again,” she told Fox News Digital.

“But I do have an underlying motivation to ensure that justice is served, and that no woman should ever be hurt by this man again.”

But a lawyer for Paryzer said the rabbi’s actions were “immoral, but not criminal.”

“All social media networks and especially dating apps are full of lies, every adult knows this, so anyone claiming that these are serious relationships lacks logic and common sense,” the lawyer said.

“Once we have all the material for the case, we can prove it.”

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