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Cops cuff suspected
Midwood arsonist
Pennsylvania man charged with attempted
murder after setting rabbi’s house ablaze
AFTERMATH: A four-alarm fi re devastated a rabbi’s Midwood home and injured 13 people. Police
arrested a Pennsylvania man who allegedly set the fi re. Paul Martinka
BY CHANDLER KIDD
Cops arrested a Pennsylvania
man for allegedly setting
a rabbi’s Midwood home
ablaze last week, creating
an inferno which spread to
two neighboring homes and
injured 13 people.
Matthew Karelefsky, 41,
was arrested Sunday and
charged with two counts of
attempted murder and one
count of arson, according to
police.
Karelefsky is a McKeesport,
Pa., resident, who
has held a long-standing
grudge against Rabbi Jonathan
Max that investigators
believe led him to commit
the crime, court documents
show.
In 2012, Karelefsky published
the fi rst of numerous
Facebook Posts threatening
to kill Rabbi Max and accusing
the holy man of molesting
him as a child, warning
other users to “keep minor
children away from Rabbi
Jonathan Max of Brooklyn.”
Max denied the abuse allegations,
saying he never
knew the man as a child.
The rabbi claims the defendant’s
vendetta began after
his wife left him in 2010,
and that Karelefsky has
blamed him for the divorce
ever since.
“He wanted to kill me because,
in his mental state he
felt that he had to be totally
in control of his family,”
Max said. “He wrote his
thoughts down on Facebook
and he was angry at me because
he didn’t understand
the divorce even though I
was against it.”
Karelefsky’s loathing
for max was so intense,
he got a tattoo on his right
arm, which reads “Never
let go of the hatred — kill
Rabbi Max,” and ends with
“Yemach shmo,” a Hebrew
term for the obliteration of
the Rabbi’s name, according
to court documents.
Max went on to claim
that Karelefsky’s been out
to get him for years, and
court records show that the
Pennsylvania man was arrested
in his home state for
making terrorist threats
against the rabbi — including
a Facebook post that
read “My way of showing
I don’t believe in God will
be by killing my number
one enemy Rabbi Max” —
in 2017, although a judge
later dismissed the charges
for jurisdictional reasons,
writing that the case should
prosecuted in New York,
where the victim resided.
The fi re broke out at 3:50
a.m. within the rabbi’s E.
17th Street abode on June
13, according to court documents.
The rabbi said that children
were inside the home
when the fi re broke out,
and that he is thankful
they were able to walk away
alive.
Rabbi Jonathan Max and a
relative survey the scene of the
fi re.
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