{"id":104302,"date":"2016-08-26T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104302"},"modified":"2016-08-26T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:55:57","slug":"this-rabbi-is-striking-back-at-pedophiles-using-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104302","title":{"rendered":"This Rabbi is Striking Back at Pedophiles \u2014 Using Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forward<\/a>: Meet the rabbi who\u2019s on a mission to educate the Orthodox community about sexual abuse\u2014and publicly out pedophiles while he\u2019s at it.<\/p>\n

For the past 15 years, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz has been trying to break the cycle of silence associated with abuse in the Orthodox community. According to the Torah, Jews are forbidden to turn criminals over to non-Jewish authorities, and are expected to face shunning and bullying from their community if they do.<\/p>\n

As such, sexual abuse often goes unreported.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have people who are [very close.] Reporting on somebody who you\u2019re friendly with, or who is someone\u2019s uncle is more challenging than reporting on somebody you don\u2019t know,\u201d Horowitz told Vocativ. \u201c\u2026I\u2019ve been telling parents to go to police.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rabbi has turned his personal Twitter and Facebook accounts into a one man campaign against sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWarning to Boro Park parents about released sex offender Dascalowitz.\u201d Horowitz tweeted last month, linking to a Facebook post he had written that includes the current address of sex offender Meir Dascalowitz, who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forward: Meet the rabbi who\u2019s on a mission to educate the Orthodox community about sexual abuse\u2014and publicly out pedophiles while he\u2019s at it. For the past 15 years, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz has been trying to break the cycle of silence … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t