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Category Archives: Abuse
The Story Of Mendel Tevel
JewishCommunityWatch.com reports: A couple of months later, we were informed that Mendel Tevel was planning to get engaged. Immediately, the kallah’s family was contacted and cautioned with the vast information we had already accumulated. We proceeded to put the family … Continue reading
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Should You Go To A Rabbi Before Secular Authorities When Reporting Abuse?
Once again, lay Jews are way ahead of the rabbis in fighting sexual abuse (a point I heard made by Rabbi Marc Shapiro). From JewishCommunityWatch.com: These two arguments for going to rabbis before secular authorities don’t hold up. The first … Continue reading
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Tagged behrman, innocent parties, marc shapiro, police evidence, police investigators, reporting abuse
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The Yeshiva Student Who Regularly Raped His Younger Sisters
Many of the kids in the yeshiva (in the Fairfax-La Brea area) knew about the boy who was regularly raping his younger sisters. Eventually adults found out. The boy is now in juvenile hall.
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JewishCommunityWatch.com Names Mendel Tevel As Dangerous
Mendel Tevel frequents Chabad shuls in Los Angeles. He recently got engaged to a Los Angeles woman. I trust JewishCommunityWatch.com. I know of no time when they’ve been wrong in their accusations. They’re careful and responsible. JewishCommunityWatch.com reports: Mendel Tevel … Continue reading
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Orthodox Jewish Teacher Arrested For Child Porn
Report: The FBI announced today the arrest of Evan Zauder for possessing child pornography. 26-year-old Evan Zauder is a Dual Masters student and a Jim Joseph Fellow in Education and Jewish Studies at NYU. After high school graduation from CHAT … Continue reading
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Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival Rejects Important New Documentary About Rabbinic Sexual Abuse
How can L.A. festival chief Hilary Helstein continue after this? She’s a disgrace. How can she reject this new film recently written up in the Washington Post? Hilary Helstein Is Hilary right when she says this is a community that … Continue reading
Girl Flips Out In Class
This is how many of the homeless act in Pico-Robertson.
The Dignity Of Work
In his fourth lecture on the Steipler for Torah in Motion, professor Marc B. Shapiro says: “The Talmud says every man must teach his son a profession. The Steipler rejects this. All those passages that speak about the dignity of … Continue reading
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New Documentary About Sexual Abuse In Baltimore’s Orthodox Community
The Washington Post reports: The story took over [Phil] Jacobs’s career in a way that surprised him. Tall and lanky with a softspoken manner, Jacobs, 58, still lives in Baltimore and is still married to his high school sweetheart. The … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood sexual abuse, fish ball, gefilte fish, high school sweetheart, maryland alumnus, phil jacobs
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Jewish Sexual Abuse Victims Make Websites
The Washington Post reports: In November, Debbie Teller, a 40-year-old Brooklyn-based blogger, launched a Web site called “AD-KAN,” a Hebrew phrase used to make the point “enough is enough.” “I wanted to reach out to people for so long, but … Continue reading
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