Rabbi David Kaye, 56, ensnared in a televised sex sting was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison yesterday for crossing a state line to have sex with what he thought was a 13 year old boy. Kaye, of Rockville, Maryland, was convicted in September. Most of the evidence came from a Dateline NBC sting conducted in conjunction with Perverted Justice, an Internet watchdog group.
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Rabbi Israel Kestenbaum, 55, allegedly pursued a 13 year old girl on the Internet. Manhattan prosecutors revealed creepy details of the rabbi’s pursuit, including the black bag of condoms and lubricants they say he brought to their first date. We could meet and kiss, he typed in a message to a male undercover cop posing online as Katie. In another message sent over the course of eight days last month, before he arranged a date at a lower Manhattan Starbucks, he allegedly typed – among fare more graphic suggestions –