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Tag Archives: child sex abuse
Child Sex Abuse Case In Australia Comes To America
Two thoughts: * This story illustrates why the Forward is the premiere Jewish news publication in the diaspora. * Consider the eery parallels to the sexual molestation situation at Beis Midrash Toras HaShem in North Hollywood. Email: The following note … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Australia, Chabad, Orthodoxy
Tagged child sex abuse, david kramer, don wolf, laibl wolf, rabbi meir, sex abuse case
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Breaking The Silence In Orthodox Judaism
Michael Lesher writes in the New York Post: The numbers are startling — in the past two years, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’ office says it has arrested and charged 89 Orthodox Jewish men with child sex abuse. It’s horrific … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse
Tagged abuse survivors, charles hynes, child advocates, child sex abuse, orthodox jewish community, orthodox judaism
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Orthodox Union Kashrut
Mac emails: http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2010/06/analyzing-rubashkin-sentence.html?showComment=1277260920104#c1606277554340667533 Last week came the news that OU head of shechita Dokter Rabbiner Seth Mandel is overseeing shochtim who eat treif or are not otherwise shomrei Torah umitzvos. I asked a rov to look into this. A rather … Continue reading
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Tagged andy kastner, child sex abuse, kashrus, Orthodox Union, seth mandel, shochet
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Covering Up Rabbi Sex Abusers
Orthodox rabbi Marc B. Shapiro blogs April 15, 2010: There is another theory as to why the sectarian hasidic world in particular has had so many cases of covering up and defending child sex abusers. It is that they simply … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Marc B. Shapiro, Rabbis
Tagged child sex abuse, Marc B. Shapiro, marc shapiro, mesirah, orthodox rabbi, rabbinic literature, sex abusers, traditional literature
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Anti-Abuse Rabbi Says He’s In Danger
It all sounds a bit suspicious to me. He doesn’t even know if he was shot with a gun or hit with a rock. It doesn’t sound to me like he was shot. Here’s his interview with The Awareness Center. … Continue reading
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Tagged child sex abuse, community activist, rabbi rosenberg, sensitive community, williamsburg bridge, williamsburg community
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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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Painful Truths About Molestation
Baltimore Jewish Times publisher Andrew A. Buerger writes March 21, 2008: Some Catholic archdioceses even filed for bankruptcy when facing similar lawsuits. Despite having had some employees ruin children’s lives, the Catholic Church’s lobbying arm has waged an ugly campaign … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse story, abuse victim, archdiocese of baltimore, baltimore jewish times, bankruptcies, blogosphere, boston globe, caine, child sex abuse, credible sources, ferret, jewish community, maryland legislature, moral bankruptcy, news organization, painful truths, perpetrators, sexual abuse, slow pace, t rush
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