{"id":248,"date":"2007-04-27T07:28:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2007-12-09T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T16:04:12","slug":"baltimore-roiled-by-abuse-charge-against-late-rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Roiled by Abuse Charge Against Late Rabbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/baltimore-roiled-by-abuse-charge-against-late-rabb\/\">Nathan Guttman writes in the Forward<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Baltimore<\/strong> &#8211; A series of expos&eacute;s on sexual abuse at a well-known yeshiva is roiling the Baltimore Jewish community and inflaming the already strained relations between the local Jewish newspaper and the city&rsquo;s sizable Orthodox population.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy revolves around allegations in the Baltimore Jewish Times that the late principal of the Talmudical Academy, Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro, may have molested Jewish students at the school and other youngsters who came to him for bar mitzvah classes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Guttman writes in the Forward: Baltimore &#8211; A series of expos&eacute;s on sexual abuse at a well-known yeshiva is roiling the Baltimore Jewish community and inflaming the already strained relations between the local Jewish newspaper and the city&rsquo;s sizable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[71,20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baltimore","category-journalism","category-orthodoxy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nathan Guttman writes in the Forward: Baltimore - A series of expos\u00e9s on sexual abuse at a well-known yeshiva is roiling the Baltimore Jewish community and inflaming the already strained relations between the local Jewish newspaper and the city\u2019s sizable Orthodox population. 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