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Category Archives: Abuse
Alleged Sex Abuse by Principal Roils Australia
Dan Goldberg writes for the Forward: Sydney, Australia — Australia’s tight-knit ultra-Orthodox community is being roiled by allegations that the principal of a girls’ high school molested a number of her former students. Malka Leifer, headmistress of Melbourne’s Adass Israel … Continue reading
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Tagged belz, chaya, crown heights riots, former students, headmistress, israel girls, mdash, mikvah, native israel, orthodox community, rosenbaum, rsquo, s board, Satmar, school board members, sects, sex abuse, sexual misconduct, sydney australia, yankel
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Which Jewish Charities Would Be Best For Laundering Money?
As a blogger, I have a ton of dirty money lying around my hovel and getting in the way of my holy work. I need to find a way to clean it. Which would be best? Etta Israel? Agudah? A … Continue reading
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Sexual Abuse and The Vaad of Baltimore (Jewish Religious Court)
Vicki Polin from The Awareness Center writes: At the urging of several friends I attended the event last week on child sexual abuse that was organized by the Vaad of Baltimore (Jewish Religious Court), The Sidran Foundation and the Shofar … Continue reading
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Ephraim Bryks – Rabbi Accused Of Pedophilia Now Claims To Be A Protector Of Women
Read about Ephraim Bryks here. Here’s a news article from The Jewish Star: Susie Rosenfeld has been married to Ariel Hacohen since 2001, but for the last two and half years, she has been fighting to get both a civil … Continue reading
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Celebrity Rehab
My friend Mary Carey is one of the characters in this new VH-1 reality show. Lainie Speiser, a nice Jewish girl (yeshiva graduate!) in New York who’s the publicist for Penthouse magazine, emails: It’s pretty juicy, apparently Daniel Baldwin (married … Continue reading
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Mules For Mullahs
From page 355 of George Crile’s book Charlie Wilson’s War: Eventually the Mujahideen were moving their supplies on the backs of Tennessee mules, and the halls of Langley were soon filled with rumors (later confirmed) that the freedom fighers were … Continue reading
Rabbi Baruch Lanner
Shmarya Rosenberg blogs: Rabbi Baruch Lanner is due to be paroled this week. Yochanan Lavie, a frequent FailedMessiah.com commenter, tells the story of his teenage encounters with rabbinic child abuser Rabbi Baruch Lanner. These encounters include Lanner kneeing boys in … Continue reading
Scholarly Abuse
Marvin Schick writes in The Jewish Week: While reading and reviewing two years ago a dreadful book on chassidic life, I came across a footnote citing a remarkably high incidence of sexual abuse among Orthodox Jewish women. The source was … Continue reading
Yisroel Shapiro Arrested
Phil Jacobs writes: Yisroel Shapiro has been arrested and charged with two counts of sexual offense in the third degree, sexual offense in the fourth degree and battery. An arrest warrant was carried out by Baltimore City Police Department detectives … Continue reading
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After a teen girl falls victim to a Web hoax, angry neighbors take matters into their own hands
P.J. Hufstutter writes: DARDENNE PRAIRIE, MO. — For nearly a year, the families who live along Waterford Crystal Drive in this bedroom community northwest of St. Louis have kept the secret about the boy Megan Meier met last September on … Continue reading