New York Post

YESHIVA ‘YANKED OUR KID’

Nixed entry over bro

- By SELIM ALGAR

This wasn’t the Passover she had in mind.

An elite yeshiva in Great Neck, LI, rescinded a girl’s admission offer because a student accused her brother of rape, according to a Nassau County court suit.

The girl’s parents, Yossi and Lili Ruben, of Queens, are now suing the $30,000-a-year North Shore Hebrew Academy and its principal, Dr. Daniel J. Vitow, for unjustly rescinding her acceptance.

The girl was initially given a letter of admission to the school in March 2017, the suit states. But that offer was abruptly pulled after the fuming father of a girl who had previously accused Ruben’s brother of rape called Vitow (inset) to object, court papers state.

Ruben’s brother was arrested on June 17, 2016, after a student at the yeshiva accused him of raping her, according to the complaint.

But the Queens District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute the case the very next day, and all charges against the boy were tossed, the suit states.

The DA “purged the arrest event from its files, the minor’s record was sealed and the fingerprin­ts and mug shots were destroyed,” the case states.

But despite that exoneratio­n, Vitow still opted to retract the admission for the boy’s sister.

“He should be ashamed of himself,” Yossi Ruben told The Post. “She did nothing wrong.”

Vitow told Ruben’s mother that the girl’s father alerted him to the rape accusation “and that he would no longer be accepting her daughter,” the complaint states. “When I accepted your daughter to the school, I did not know that there was a discussion of your son raping a girl,” Vitow told Yossi Ruben in a subsequent phone call, according to the suit.

“And when I found out about it, I made a judgment call that it’s not good to have that situation in the school. That is my right as principal at the school,” Vitow said, according to court papers.

“She took this very hard,” Ruben said of his daughter, who was forced to enroll elsewhere.

An attorney for the school, Christophe­r Gegwich, did not return a call for comment. Vitow also did not comment.

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