The start of a sex-abuse trial for a prominent Williamsburg rabbi has been delayed because a yeshiva keeps ignoring requests for information from his defense team

The case of Nechemya Weberman, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi charged with molesting a 12-year old girl over three years, has been pushed back to July 18, 2012 as a judge weighs whether to slap contempt of court charges against the United Talmudical Academy. "I was trying to avoid doing that to give the school an opportunity to respond," Justice Ruth Shillingford said. The 53-year-old accused child molester is affiliated with the yeshiva, where his victim — who was supposed to be mentored by him about religion — was a student. But Weberman's lawyers said that the yeshiva has ignored letters and subpoenas for records on the rabbi, whose supporters have rallied to raise funds for his legal defense. "The only way to obtain these records at this point is to threaten the school and its administration with contempt," said George Farkas, a defense lawyer for the 53-year-old rabbi. The case returned to court as District Attorney Charles Hynes has come under fire for not publicly identifying the nearly 100 accused perverts from Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods now facing sex charges.