The Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against Rabbi Yosef Paryzer for using a false identity to deceive multiple women into romantic and sexual relationships on Thursday.
An indictment was filed against Rabbi Yosef Paryzer for deceiving multiple women into simultaneous relationships using the persona of bachelor ‘Jake Segal,’ the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday.
An investigation by the fraud department tracked down over 30 women that the suspect had allegedly met on online dating websites and applications. Last Sunday, police claimed to have secured 32 testimonies. Some of the women Paryzer dated said they didn’t support his prosecution and preferred to focus on repairing their lives rather than giving testimony.
Who was the yeshiva deceiver?
Paryzer, a 35-year-old American citizen and married father of two, lived a double life. He lived with his ultra-Orthodox family in Jerusalem and taught at an Anglo-centric yeshiva, but also presented himself on various dating websites and applications such as Tinder, Bumble, and OkCupid as Segal. Segal appeared to women as a single, secular to traditional man who worked as a seeing-eye dog trainer.
As Segal, he has dated several women at the same time since 2016. One of his longest extra-marital relationships was around seven years long. Paryzer promised the women serious relationships which appeared to be geared toward marriage and family.
When some of the women he met as dating discovered his deception, two filed a complaint to the police. In Israel, it is a sexual offense to have sexual relations with consent achieved through deception of one’s identity. Some of the women have been against criminal prosecution, preferring to move on from the relationships.
Michael Starr contributed to this report.
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