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Category Archives: Abuse
Pastor Tony Alamo Says He’s Jewish
Chaim Amalek emails: Why aren’t you all over this story? LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Since Tony Alamo’s start as a California street preacher more than 40 years ago, the self-styled evangelist’s story has been colorful and checkered. When his … Continue reading
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Tagged amalek, girls having sex, southwest arkansas, state custody, street preacher, Tony Alamo
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CEO Of OHEL Cautions About Going To Police
From Failed Messiah: David Mandel, the CEO of OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services, the Brooklyn-based haredi social services organization. Speaking in… …Baltimore February 20, 2008, under the auspices of Baltimore’s Orthodox (and overwhelmingly haredi) Va’ad Harabbonim, Mandel appears to … Continue reading
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Tagged brief history of baltimore, orthodox rabbi, rabbi eliezer, rabbi matis weinberg, rabbi moshe eisemann, social services organization
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Child Molesters & The Pope
Rav Adlerstein writes: The plague of molestation and cover-up in the Orthodox community is one of those circumstances. If you have not yet read some of Rav Yaakov Horowitz’s pieces, read them and cringe. His courageous writing is getting progressively … Continue reading
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Tagged assemblyman dov hikind, benzion, moral leader, threats and intimidation, twerski, world war ii
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Fighting Child Protective Services
I found this new site fightcps.com and this post: Motzei Shabbos, September 13, 2008 Summary: I am Aviva Yehudit Bat Ya’akov, daughter of a Polish holocaust survivor. Despite financial and health challenges, I have raised my only child as a … Continue reading
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Tagged holocaust survivor, jewish family services, jewish sabbath, ms alexander, observant jews, polish holocaust
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Artscroll author and convicted felon Rabbi Leib Pinter pleads guilty to theft faces up to 20 years of prison
From JWB: Artscroll author and convicton felon Rabbi Leib Pinter ( http://www.artscroll.com/Authors/Rabbi_Leib_Pinter.html ) pleads guilty to criminal charges yet again and faces going back to jail yet again … this time for up to 20 years. Rabbi Pinter plead guilty … Continue reading
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Tagged cheese sandwiches, elizabeth lang, Google, leib pinter, nai torah, torah institute
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Screwed By Rev. Wright
From the New York Post: He almost wrecked Barack Obama‘s presidential dreams, and now firebrand pastor Jeremiah Wright has helped destroy a Dallas church worker’s marriage – and her job, The Post has learned. Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had … Continue reading
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Tagged employment opportunity commission, equal employment opportunity, equal employment opportunity commission, friendship west baptist church, Jeremiah Wright, wrongful dismissal claim
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Rabbi Pushed Off Sex Panel
Bill Sanderson writes for the New York Post: Saying the cause was right but the threats it brought his family too much to bear, a prominent Brooklyn rabbi yesterday quit a new task force set up by Assemblyman Dov Hikind … Continue reading
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Tagged bill sanderson, child sex abuse, orthodox jews, twerski, verbal harassment, vos iz neias
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Top Doc Twerski Scared Off Panel On Rabbinic Sex Molesters
From The Jewish Week: A prominent Orthodox rabbi and psychologist has been intimidated into quitting as head of a just-formed task force dealing with rabbinic sex abuse of minors, organized by Assemblyman Dov Hikind this week. Dr. Benzion Twerski told … Continue reading
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Tagged benzion, borough park, child sex abuse, dramatic departure, orthodox rabbi, personal crusade
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Israeli Principal Arrested On Molestation Charges
From YNETnews: A school principal in a West Bank settlement has been arrested on charges of indecent assault against dozens of his students, aged 12-14, Ynet has learned. Married and in his late 40s, the man was brought before … Continue reading
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Tagged chief superintendent, indecent assault, kfar saba, molestation charges, welfare officials, west bank settlement
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The Yeshiva Basketball Coach Who Asked His Players To Pose Nude
From The Jewish Week: Asserting that there are more victims of an alleged sexual abuser than the four teens who have come forward to the police, the rabbi of an Orthodox synagogue in Teaneck, N.J., is calling on congregants to … Continue reading
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Tagged bergen county prosecutor, orthodox synagogue, rabbi yosef, sexual abuser, shabbat morning, teaneck police department
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