Reasonable Doubt: Raphael Golb Did Not Know of a Jonathan Seidel- Dead Sea Scrolls trial

Poet Frederick Seidel,

in 2006 called

"the best

American poet writing today"

by the New York Sun

(click for website)

Raphael Golb testified that

he was the inspiration

for the name 'Jonathan Seidel'

photo: Mark Mahane

NO 'REASONABLE DOUBT'!
Raphael Golb testified on his own behalf that he made up the name "Jonathan Seidel," not knowing there was a Rabbi and professor across the country in Oregon who happened to have that name, who had once given a seminar on the Dead Sea Scrolls- if I remember correctly, out in Oregon, years ago.
Raphael said he used the name 'Jonathan Seidel" in some emails he sent to museums complaining about biased exhibits.

Please keep in mind while you read this, that for each of the several misdemeanors incurred against Rabbi "Jonathan Seidel," the judge gave Raphael 3-month (concurrent) prison sentences in Rikers Island State Penitentiary.

The jury in the Dead Sea Scrolls case was to decide if there was "reasonable doubt" as to whether Raphael Golb made up the name "Jonathan Seidel" or not. The jury found no "reasonable doubt." The jury decided that there was absolutely no possibility that Raphael Golb might have invented the name 'Jonathan Seidel" as he said, and they ruled him guilty of several criminal counts against Rabbi Jonathan Seidel, "beyond a reasonable doubt."