Rabbi Menachem Youlus, the 50-year-old Baltimore resident and Wheaton Jewish book store owner who billed himself as the “Jewish Indiana Jones” for his remarkable tales of Holocaust-era Torah rescues, pled guilty yesterday in a Manhattan federal court to defrauding a charity he founded of $862,000.

The announcement was made by Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

“Menachem Youlus concocted an elaborate tale of dramatic Torah rescues undertaken by a latter day movie hero that exploited the profound emotions attached to…