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Category Archives: Abuse
2nd Jewish-American journalist speaks of sexual misconduct by Israeli media personality
(JTA) — Amid allegations from a Los Angeles reporter of sexual assault by an eminent Israeli journalist, a Jewish journalist from New York said she also was abused by another Israeli journalist. Avital Chizhik, a contributor to Haaretz, The New … Continue reading
Rabbi charged with sex abuse to get 1 year of counseling, no prison
Jewish Journal: Rabbi Sholom D. Levitansky has agreed to one year of counseling and residential treatment at Beit T’Shuvah, an addiction treatment center near Culver City, after pleading no contest to two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object … Continue reading
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Israelis Finger Ari Shavit For Groping Danielle Berrin
A few years ago, I took a silent pledge to stop writing about Danielle Berrin because it felt like picking wings off a fly. Yeah, such writing was fun, but I hated myself for doing it. Critiquing her articles was … Continue reading
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WP: Ex-mayor charged in 4-year-old’s rape said girl was a willing participant
Washington Post: Keenan, a Democrat, was sworn in as mayor in January 2010 and served until 2011… “I care about his town,” Keenan said in a 2010 interview with the Vindicator. “I’m pulled to hear the heart of the people.” … Continue reading
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10 Weird and Wonderful Things About Living Among Hasidic Jews
Gavin McInnes writes in 2013: The Great Bike Lanes War of Williamsburg has been raging since at least 2009. Hot girls on bikes ride through Hasidic communities flaunting their blasphemously saucy legs and ungodly cleavage. The Hasidim retaliated by painting … Continue reading
FBI destroys evidence linked to Medicare fraud among Orthodox Jewish community in New York
Glenn Thrush writes for Politico: “All of the Medicaid cheats I grew up with in Brooklyn were Russians, I tell her. And Bernie Madoff, who was born here, ripped off more cash than a million Mexicans.” Immigrants sure seem to … Continue reading
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Why Were So Many Madoff Victims Jewish?
The Atlantic Feb. 8, 2016: The trust people tend to feel toward others in the same ethnic, racial, and political groups makes them easy targets for scammers. Last week’s ABC mini-series chronicled the most famous financial fraud in recent American … Continue reading
This Rabbi is Striking Back at Pedophiles — Using Twitter
Forward: Meet the rabbi who’s on a mission to educate the Orthodox community about sexual abuse—and publicly out pedophiles while he’s at it. For the past 15 years, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz has been trying to break the cycle of silence … Continue reading
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A Rape On Campus
Wikipedia: “A Rape on Campus” is a now-retracted Rolling Stone article by Sabrina Erdely originally published on November 19, 2014, which claimed to describe a group sexual assault at the University of Virginia (UVA). It has since been discredited and … Continue reading
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A plea from the brother and victim of a predator
Yehuda Pogrow writes: Meir Pogrow, the justly-condemned sexual predator, is my older brother. He is roughly nine years my senior. I share my story because I hope to launch a movement that will raise from the ashes of this tragedy … Continue reading