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Category Archives: Abuse
Tranquility Bay
The Awareness Center posts March 28: Isaac Hersh was being held at Tranquility Bay, a boot camp in Jamaica, which was known for using severe corporal punishment on the children. Allegations have been made that Isaac’s parents (Miriam and Michael … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Isaac Hersh
Tagged abraham j twerski, ambulance service, Awareness Center, center posts, corporal punishment, dr abraham, far rockaway ny, foster parents, Hatzalah, Hillary Clinton, isaac klein, leave of absence, monsey ny, rabbi avraham, rabbi dovid, rabbi shmuel, rabbi yosef, senator hillary clinton, torture chamber, tranquility bay, Yeshiva University
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Rabbi Yona Metzger on Child Abuse and The Case of Rabbi Elior Chen
Rabbi Elior Chen Vicki Polin writes from The Awareness Center: It seems strange that Rabbi Yona Metzger would be making the following statement, especially since he was accused of sexual misconduct/clergy sexual abuse (with four men) several years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Elior Chen
Tagged abusive relationships, adult survivors of child abuse, Awareness Center, blanket statements, case basis, clergy sexual abuse, critical thinking, cult leader, cult members, deductive reasoning, elior, explicit directions, four men, mixed feelings, polin, rabbi, sexual misconduct, spiritual leader, survivors of child abuse, yona metzger
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Rabbi David Kedmi Accused Of Sexual Abuse
I believe Rabbi Mark Dratch (JSafe.org) was looking into this case. From The Awareness Center: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS February 25, 2008 As policy The Awareness Center removed the name of the survivor … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness Center, baby naming ceremony, beauty queen, birth facts, buttocks, county of kings, defendant, infant twins, joyous celebration, kings county new york, lawful purpose, new york county, plaintiff, premature birth, rabbi david, ritual circumcision, sexual abuse, state of new york, sum and substance, supreme court of the state of new york
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Case of Rabbanit Bruria Keren – The Burka Wearing Mom Accused Of Child Abuse
From The Awareness Center: 54-year-old, Bruria Keren, was arrested on charges of child sexual abuse and physical abuse of her twelve children. She has also been accused of cult like practices. Police suspect that the children were violently abused over … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Awareness Center
Tagged abuse cases, Awareness Center, Beit Shemesh, bruria, Burka, child abuse case, child sexual abuse, code of silence, dress code, electric cables, food diet, group of women, jerusalem post, jewish women, muslim sects, physical abuse, police probe, safed, toldot aharon, whippings
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Aussie Principal Of Yeshiva Accused Of Molestation Is Hiding Out In Israel
"The case of Malka Leifer needs to be in the news," says a source. "She’s hiding out in Beit Shemesh and has left hurt people all over the world. This is a cult-like case." From The Awareness Center: In 2000, … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness Center, Beit Shemesh, forensic evidence, girls school, israel girls, israel school, jewish law, leifer, marriage partner, orthodox communities, psychologist, quot, Rabbis, religious court, rosenbaum, seven years, sex crimes, sexual predator, spokesperson, Yeshiva
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Israel Seeks Extradition From Canada Of Rabbi Accused Of Child Abuse
Here’s the video. Here’s the news from The Jerusalem Report: The police will issue an international arrest warrant this week against an extremist rabbi who fled to Canada and is a key suspect in one of the worst child abuse … Continue reading
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Tagged abusive mother, betar, brain damage, canadian citizenship, child abuse cases, elior, extradition, extremist, hot plate, illit, indictment, international arrest warrant, jerusalem police, jerusalem report, police spokesman, rabbi, shabbat, spiritual mentor, vegetative state, worst child abuse cases
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Rabbi linked to systematic child abuse flees to Canada
By Uri Blau, Yair Ettinger, Jonathan Lis and Ofra Edelman for Haaretz: Rabbi Elior Chen, the spiritual authority behind a group accused of systematically abusing children in a Jerusalem family, has fled to Canada with one of his supporters, Haaretz … Continue reading
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Tagged edelman, educational lessons, elior, gag order, haaretz, hammers, indictment, international warrant, jerusalem family, jerusalem police, magistrate, ofra, quot, rabbi, remand, spiritual authority, state police, state prosecutor, vegetative state, yair
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The Return Of Rabbi Hershy Worch
I haven’t viewed any of Rabbi Worch‘s (a friend of my friend Yori Yanover, I have no stomach for any more fights with or about either of these two) online writings in about eighteen months (nor have I written about … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Hershy Worch
Tagged candles, corpse, enemies, funeral director, funerals, hershy, inclination, infamy, journaling, many faces, plastic tablecloth, polin, psalms, rabbi, shomer, small man, tea lights, triumphs, virtue, yetzer tov
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