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Category Archives: Abuse
Accused Child Molester Rides In Bus With Children At Lag B’Omer Parade
Deputy District Attorney Benny Forer posts on FB: Currently at lag b’omer event in LA. Attached are photos of Mendy Tevel at the parade. Mendy is on a double-decker bus filled with children. It’s for the JEM center, an organization … Continue reading
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Accused Child Molester Runs Torah Academy
Circa 2005, I found this Rabbi Eliezer Eisgrau story so difficult to unravel, it ended my focus on reporting molestation stories. I needed to take a break. Then as now, I don’t take any side in this story, except to … Continue reading
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JP: Rabbi charged with stealing $12.4 million from New York disabled kids
JP: “NEW YORK – A New York rabbi and three others were indicted for stealing over $12.4 million in public aid for disabled pre-schoolers and using it to spruce up their homes, get catering discounts and fund a relative’s cosmetics … Continue reading
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Child Sexual Abuse In Orthodox Judaism
Benny writes: Why do I occasionally take on Rabbis and criticize their actions in the arena of CSA (Child Sexual Abuse)? For those who are familiar with this industry, the answer is obvious. For those that don’t, maybe it isn’t … Continue reading
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Rabbis & Child Abuse
Benny posts on FB: Rabbinical authorities (and I can name many) have been at the forefront of dealing with this issue within the community. For the past 50 years, ideas like mesirah (informing to gentile authorities) and loshon horah (gossip) … Continue reading
Why Are Modern Orthodox Rabbis Lining Up Behind A Sex Offender?
From FrumFollies: As bad as Zauder’s crimes were, perhaps, more disturbing for the community, is that when it came to the sentencing, many Modern Orthodox leaders lined up to write personal pleas for leniency. Major figureheads, including senior leaders of … Continue reading
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Jewish Journal Reports On SEC Investigations Of Richard & Michael Horowitz, Marc Firestone, Hershy Ten
Michael Horowitz responds. Jonah Lowenfeld writes this morning: Richard Horowitz settled with the SEC for more than $365,000; Firestone settled for more than $180,000. Neither Richard Horowitz nor Firestone responded to emails or to a message left at their firm’s … Continue reading
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Are Satanists Molesting Our Kids?
The New York Times has an excellent video on the McMartin Pre-School abuse hysteria of the 1980s. An investigative journalist says: “There certainly have been mentally ill people who have gone out and killed people in the name of Satan, … Continue reading
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Levi Moscowitz Makes Bail, Released
Levi Moscowitz, a 24 year old member of Chabad’s Southern California community, was arrested last week on minor charges and then released on bail. The police report, however, tells a much darker tale of sexual abuse of Jewish children in … Continue reading
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He Said His Colleagues Were ‘Jew-leftie-commies’
I’m fascinated by the story of British psychologist Christopher Brand. How does one balance academic freedom with social responsibility? According to Wikipedia: In October 1996 Brand came to the defence of Nobel laureate Daniel Carleton Gajdusek who had been charged … Continue reading
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