Are Einav Shapira and Orit Shapira-Sivan guilty of slander and or libel? Einav Ahava Shapira and Orit Shapira-Sivan are family one is an aunt and the other is a niece.
Are Einav Shapira and Orit Shapira-Sivan guilty of slander and or libel? Meaning are these two woman responsible for creating and publishing libels?
Libel is a method of defamation expressed by print, writing, pictures, signs, effigies, or any communication embodied in physical form that is injurious to a person's reputation, exposes a person to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or injures a person in his/her business or profession. -Cornell Law
slander. n. oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an untruth about another which untruth will harm the reputation of the person defamed. Slander and libel are false or malicious claims that may harm someone's reputation. Slander may also refer to: Slander of title, which is a species of malicious falsehood relating to real estate. Slander of goods, which is another species of malicious falsehood.
As you may or may not know I immigrated with my family about a year ago to Israel.
Why Israel you ask? For a few reasons:
1. I've never been there, and it seemed like a place where I could go with my children and enjoy a vacation
like life. I felt that Israel is supposed to be home to all Jews...and most people seem to enjoy Israel when they want to slow down in life
2.My husband Eldad Shapira was terminally ill (he was ill for a very long time and fought the illness every step of the way) and I thought it would be a good time to build some bridges with extended family (mine and his) since we both mutually agreed to leave them alone until our children got of an age where they could decide if they felt they needed them in their life or just leave things the way they were.
3. I thought that once Eldad was buried in Israel we would be close enough to him.
After going through the process of immigration, being promised a budget to live on everything was set except for one thing; a place to live.
So after much debate,and since Eldad did NOT want to tell his family he was dying because he said they were racist "vultures" and I prodded him to do so Eldad decided to let his family know that he was ill and probably at the end of his life. He asked his sister Orit Shapira-Sivan to help us locate an apartment in Israel.
Eldad and I both knew when he asked for the help that he was forbidden by his doctors to travel, and the plan was to have him buried in Israel.
After about 2 weeks an apartment "with the option to buy" was located and we were thrilled. Eldad then told his sister that he was not coming and two days later, she told us there was an "even better apartment" for us to move into.
Eldad asked her if she could send us pictures and surprisingly they never appeared. Furthermore, he asked his sister to help set up burial in Israel and she told him no problem everything will be set up. Eldad said afterwards that he hoped Orit would do "right by him" since he's dying. Spoiler alert: it was never set up, he was buried in the US despite his last dying wish to be buried at home(Israel) preferably near his father. Ironically no one thought or had the respect to ask me where to bury him. As Orit said " we don't need you...we'll do this without you"
I arrived with my children 2 weeks later and was greeted by crazy libels such as "I am a horrible wife because I left my husband behind who was ill" ,"I am not Jewish","I lived off Eldad's money","I am garbage", I am a "waste of a life", "I am not who I say I am", "Eldad was afraid of my father" and my favorite being "I came into the country through a non-Jewish
organization called Nefesh BNefesh"(everyone knows that's a doozy of a lie)
I heard these rumors running rampant in my neighborhood and I just ignored them because I said what dumb people
would actually listen to such stupidity considering you have to go through so much to get approved.Then I heard it in other neighborhoods...same story Eldad's family said......, a man from New York who dealt with Eldad at the end said
My first week in this apartment started off with a bang and set the tone for the purpose of exposing these 2 women.
Within one month the walls next to my apartment were vandalized with graffiti (one saying "negro entrance"
and the other saying a " waste of a life") in Hebrew, we were followed all over the neighborhood over the
Sabbath, we had a group of teens try and fight us(my children and I) EVEN after I identified myself as the mother of my children,I was spit on by a teenager and we were called a waste of life, a brown face was drawn on the window of the floor we live on, my son and my father were threatened with a call to the police if they entered the synagogue (that incidentally they were invited to) and my favorite all time creepy incident is that someone put two not one but two signs on a plant next to our door that said "nude" in English.
I sent email out to the only contacts that I knew off at the time: my case worker in Israel for Immigration, the area coordinator for the city I live in and an area Coordinator for the group I made immigration with.
I was nicely told at the immigration office that nothing could be done, the people in the neighborhood said I wasn't Jewish and that a leader of the neighborhood (who incidentally arrived with police escort) said so and I was put through a bunch of questions I guess geared at trying to make me defensive. Each question touched on each lie that was being said. I sat there and shook my head. At the same time I was wondering why they didn't look in my file for the answers to this ridiculous libel.You would think that is the purpose of files right? Why didn't they tell them the truth and that would be it. They helped me as best as they could and in my opinion it is great to know that the help can be there. In my opinion despite this I love the country....... I have met a few very worldly,intelligent
....really good people and look forward to meeting more such people.
A month after this drama occurred Eldad actually passed away. The actual day of Eldad's death his sister Orit Shapira Sivan, his daughter Einav Ahava Shapira aka Eve/Eva Shapira (which is ironic considering that is her aunts(uncles ex-wife) name..Eve/Eva that is) and Eldad's brother Eyal Shapira as well as the man Eldad and I agreed could handle medical determination and burial Dan Ben Noon.
Danny may sound familiar to a few of you because he is the same person who owned the kosher restaurant in
Brooklyn New York called Napoli Pizza and claims to be former Israeli Intelligence.
Eldad met him almost a decade prior to his death, got some bad advice on how to get divorced, had the judge
tell him he was a liar and the friendship ended. Eldad kept in touch with him there or here and even went
to sit and talk to him but he said he didn't trust him anymore.
So, as Eldad put it Danny was "connected" and maybe in his death he'll do the right thing by him. He said he would give him MEDICAL power of attorney and that everything else falls to me because I knew him the longest and I would be fair.
Einav blew into his life five years before he died. He just didn't know at the time. Someone was spreading a rumor that a guy was looking for Eldad and myself because I had wronged him. Eldad knew that was a lie, but his clients started making snide remarks about him being a bad father and moral implications of leaving his wife and children.A few
clients told him they received inappropriate emails that seemed to be from him. Some clients dropped him. He was very annoyed with that as well. So, when his daughter arrived for a "visit" around that time he suspected something but was not sure what.
Fast forward to his death last year, on THE day he died his family told the chevra kadisha(Jewish Burial Organization) that they had a power of attorney and that his "ex-wife" lived in Israel. In addition, they told them I was not Jewish, my children are not mine or Eldad's, we(my children and I) had nothing to do with him, I was a terrible wife, and that he left his family for me (sound familiar?). The people working there were very suspicious and after much prodding told them to put me in touch. After a brief conversation, it was established that I was the correct person to give permission for his burial.Oh and about that "connected" that Dany had told him about? They planned to put him in Potters Field!
From the first 30 days after his death until now I have heard libels levied against me and my children and it is time to set the record straight:. I am setting the record straight not only for myself but for my children who have asked me to do so and for Eldad. As my son says "my Abba (hebrew word for father) knew that you are fair, but he also knew that you know how to defend us" They have been humiliated by adults calling them fakers for mourning their father because they just cannot accept the truth. They have heard all of the lies levied against us. People have done so with malice, and I have been called "niave " because I feel what was done was wrong
Libel: Eldad left his wife and kids for me.
Implication: I am a home wrecker,Einav's mother is this poor white woman who lost her husband to a black woman, I and he lack integrity and that her father had an inappropriate relationship with a young woman .
Fact:
a. I was too young to have that happen. Anyone who knows my mother and remembers our high school years knows she never allowed us to date. Furthermore, I have never been to Israel prior to my arrival last year.A question coincidentally immigration kept asking me over and over.
Also a caveat; Einav and Orit threatened Eyal (uncle and brother) they would spread the rumor to include him as the person who got us together if he spoke out AGAINST their lies
b. Eldad filed for divorce in 1987 (we married in the early 90s) and I was an adult then
. The wife at that time Miriam Ben Lulu(l) was given custody of her four young children. According to documents filed by Eldad's father (may he rest in peace) the wife refused to accept the divorce(as it is Jewish tradition) sent to her. All decisions were supposed to be filed in the family court allowing the officials access to the documents. This was never done.
c.ALL OF ELDAD'S CHILDREN ARE MIXED RACE!!! they all inherited light skin after their father, and their mothers as the rest of the family put it are "Blacks"
d. As Eldad stated many times he stalked me...and everyone knew I was younger than he was
Libel:my children are not mine because of their color
Implication: that dark skinned woman don't give birth to light skin/ white colored children. That I adopted my children thus not making them ours (mine)
Fact: science....enough said
Fact: Eldad's name is on both children's birth certificates
Libel: Eldad was afraid of my father
Implication: that Eldad was weak and that my father is this imposing man
Fact: Eldad was a Sergeant in a Israeli Combat Unit...served in three wars in Israel and physically was much taller than my father. Who are they kidding?
Libel: I lived off of Eldad's money and did nothing with my life
Implication: That my resume and stated accomplishments are not mine
Fact: My accomplishments are under my maiden name to give my children and their father privacy. I have since chosen to use my name as it was changed 23 years ago since my children are near adults
Fact: when Eldad knew he was ill he wanted to accomplish somethings. This was at the height of my PR/Marketing campaigns for my book. I knew sacrifices needed to be made therefore I withdrew from the public to help him achieve his goals or last wishes.
Fact: My accomplishments are my own. I achieved them and I am very proud of myself.
Libel: I am not Jewish
Implication: that I am pretending to be Jewish
Fact: If anyone bothered to ask and believe yes I am. I don't feel I have to show my Jewishness letter to every Moshe,Esti and Ina....Letter is from an Orthodox authority. The neighborhood Representative NEVER so much as spoke to me or even my father btw....The way I see it is that when the time comes for my children to be married, whoever those people will be ...they need to provide a letter to me!
Libel: a man from New York says Eldad is not really dead, but in fact ran away because I was/am a bad wife
Implication:that I am fraudulently claiming Eldad's death,
Fact: Dany is the person who confirmed his death as well as the coroner for the State of New York a death certificate was issued. If for some odd reason someone has spoken to him...I am ready willing and able to open up an investigation with the Coroner and any other legal authority.
Libel: since my husband ran away from me the fact was covered up by saying he died so shortly after my
arrival[ the libel is stated as a man from New York says he is not really dead, but in fact ran away because I was/am a bad wife]
Implication: that I am committing fraud by saying he is dead.
Fact: my son says "kadish" (mourner's prayer) for his father almost daily is just that a fact and a testament to his actual death and not a grand hoax (as Esti and her mother) have been heard to say...actually she said it to my daughter's face
Libel: We had nothing to do with Eldad
Implication: that I had no relationship with him, that the children who knew him the longest don't count
Fact: since I was aware of his illness we kept it a secret from the children until he got chronic. EVERY person including the Social Workers who worked with Eldad saw me and the children almost daily because we escorted him to his appointments. All of the doctors who gave him care knew me as well. As a matter of fact, the care team asked us to ALWAYS come because he "behaved himself" when we came with him.
Libel: I am a bad wife because I left him alone
Implication: that I didn't provide care for him
Fact: The social work team, Eldad and I felt that when the time came when he would be too difficult to deal with (in terms of severe mood swings, behaviors that may cause injury himself or others) or the closer he came to physically deteriorating it was best for the children to remember him in his happier moments. It was a hard decision, but we both knew it was right for the children
Fact: Before our plans were finalized Eldad made the children promise that they will call him everyday....they agreed and did so. Eldad's sister Orit, his daughter Einav and Dany took it upon themselves to take his cellphone (which by the way I have not gotten back....or any of his belongings....wow...or even mine and our children's things that were packed to be sent to me and the contents of the apartment and his car because Dany told everyone including the landlord not to deal with me he had power of attorney. According to the laws in New York State that power of attorney was ONLY for medical
use. By claiming a power of attorney he felt that he could usurp all powers that are rightfully mine as the spouse of record verified by the State of New York as his current spouse)and no one answered the phone.
The children left messages for about 3 weeks the last message left by my son said that if we didn't get a response I would call the police. The next calls were answered by someone who pretended to be Eldad and when my son told him you are not my father the person said.."oh I meant it was his phone." This person went on to say that their father was too ill to speak....and yet, the social worker at the hospital said he agreed verbally to give Dany medical power of attorney. Other times this individual stated that he took the phone out of the hospital to charge it. Even-though I personally packed Eldad's charger for his phone.
Fact: when Eldad was close to dying (within the last month of his life) Orit said she didn't know what to do because he kept crying to speak to his children in Israel. I told her she was an idiot, because all she had to do was tell Eldad that my children called him daily like they said they would. She told me, "no his children in Israel." I said "where do you think my children are? remember? you placed us in this apartment." He raised our kids with me for at least 17 years and she didn't know what to tell him ? She was only thinking of his children who grew up in Israel who are currently adult? He never spoke of them and most people didn't know he had additional children...actually he never spoke of his family at all..sister, brother.. Another assumption on her part that proved to be false.
Fact: before Eldad died he cursed his sister Orit Shapira Sivan and told her she wronged his family by putting us
the neighborhood we live in. He told her she was a "racist rattlesnake and don't worry i'll be dead soon so you'll finally get your wish."
Libel: Dany has power of attorney regarding all of Eldad's affairs.
Implication: That Eldad didn't trust me with his affairs, I have no power or say so in Eldad's affairs
Fact: Dany was given Medical Power of Attorney
Fact: New York State validated my position as wife via an apostilled marriage certificate.
So what propels this type of situation to happen? Remember when I posted Einav came to visit? She told us that SHE called the authorities on her mother and they took all of the children away and put them into foster care.She also told us that she has been manipulating people...spreading lies successfully since she was a child and never got caught. She then went on a rant on how Black woman are useless, bad mothers, primitive and ignorant. Eldad looked at her and told her not to "eff" with HIS family.
Here is this young woman Einav Shapira and not a young man as she has been claiming to be....going around spreading lies about her father, a man she portrays as a pedophile and a family deserter married to the author who is a home wrecker, and black and she can't figure out why he didn't leave me.
His sister Orit Shapira-Sivan is still" butt hurt" because 20 years ago she came to our house, called me primitive and was sent to the west coast to visit a friend.Besides Eldad proudly told his sister about my book when I wrote it. Actually he told everyone
Dany what is his connection to all of this? He gave Eldad bad advice...I reacted to that advice. As Dany put it, "I will ruin your reputation because you hurt my friend and should have been grateful that you married a white man."
Have you encountered crazy nonsense like this? If so, please feel free to comment below
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