I can't believe that this so called leader has now set up shop on the internet Do people have any idea what kind of havoc he caused in our community? And to answer the questions he poses on the frontpage of the website: Is he scary? Will he bite? YES andYES. Now let me tell you why. Yizty is an unbalanced guy, and it goes WAY back. He just can not get it together. He was fired from the synagogue, could not get another real job, and now he is unemployable.
So I discover, that in addition to raging at the credit union and the allegedly donut shop, he has attempted to solve his problems by luring unsuspecting people who are interested in his services over the Internet. Little do these people know that this man has a REAL violent temper. We in Riverside, have all experienced it first-hand. And if you have something tasty in your hand, you better watch that too! He has attempted vehicular manslaughter so he would surely bite you! Yitzhak Miller represents a great danger because he is not fit as a leader. Yet he spends an enormous amount of advertising claiming that he is a leader in the area of what he does. What Yitzhak Miller did for Riverside is terrorize our community and leave us with a lack of faith in Jewish clergy.
Rabbi at Riverside's oldest synagogue resigns amid complaints of conduct
10:00 PM PST on Friday, January 25
By GREGOR McGAVIN
The Press-Enterprise
The spiritual leader of Riverside's oldest synagogue is stepping down, more than two months after he grazed a school psychologist with his truck during an argument over who was first in line at a drive-through ATM.
No one was hurt in the Nov. 5 fracas at Altura Credit Union in Riverside, and a judge this month dismissed misdemeanor charges of battery and hit and run against Temple Beth El Rabbi Yitzhak Miller.
Jory Yarmoff, president of the temple's board of directors, confirmed that the board has accepted the resignation.
He said that since the credit union incident, individual congregants have come forward to complain about how Miller treated them.
"The other issues predate the credit union incident. That just served to focus people's attention, " Yarmoff said.
"Anger management was part of it. The other part of it was his ability to successfully partner with temple leadership."
Miller resigned, effective June 30, in a letter to temple members dated Jan. 14, the day charges against him were dismissed. He has shaken hands and made up with his counterpart in the Nov. 5 incident, both sides said.
Yarmoff praised the work Miller has done since arriving in July. He said the rabbi has strengthened Sunday programs and education for adults and children
Miller, who has been at the synagogue for a year and a half, said his problems there result not from his actions, but because Temple Beth El — which serves more than 230 families — is a small congregation with limited finances and volunteers
"It does not appear that there is a good match between my energies as a rabbi and the congregation's ability to sustain these programs, " he said in a phone interview
Yarmoff said he expects Miller's resignation to be a hot topic at the temple's annual congregational meeting Sunday.
Miller, a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in technology management, worked in international business for seven years before beginning rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College
Before arriving at Temple Beth El in July Miller served about five years as first a student rabbi, then community rabbi at Congregation Emeth in Gilroy
Michael Oshan, president of the Gilroy temple's board, said Miller "had a lot to offer, but there were some issues." He declined to be specific but said anger management was involved
Miller — described in the police report on the ATM fracas as 6 feet tall and 275 pounds — said in a Dec. 2 letter to the congregation that he has had "a compulsive eating addiction" since junior high school. He said he has been seeing a therapist for almost two years for his eating disorder and the therapist warned him that "previously unprocessed feelings would likely begin to come up in potent ways
Miller said he also had attempted to enroll in an anger-management program but had not yet found one that would accept someone not ordered to join by a court
The rabbi said he had spoken with officials at the Central Conference of American Rabbis, who advised him the best course would be through t'shuvah, which the organization describes as "the Jewish process of redirecting ourselves back onto the 'right path.'
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