Moshe Aryeh Friedman (born 1972 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City), currently living in Antwerp, Belgium, is a practicing Haredi Jew.
Friedman opposes Zionism, and therefore does not recognize Rabbi Metzger's authority.
Officials of the Austrian Jewish community claim that he has not proven that he has completed the rabbinical studies required to earn the title, and he was actually expelled from the Board of the Vienna Jewish Community.
[4] Friedman's children were expelled from the Talmud Torah school in Austria, where the family lived.
[6] After being banned from the Jewish community in Austria in 2007,[7][8] he moved to New York City.