{"id":40222,"date":"2012-02-08T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40222"},"modified":"2012-02-08T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:40:04","slug":"when-rabbis-become-molesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40222","title":{"rendered":"When Rabbis Become Molesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe says: &#8220;I had forgotten entirely about <A HREF=\"http:\/\/jewishsurvivors.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/looking-for-more-information-on-rabbi.html\">[Rabbi] George Finkelstein<\/a>, because I didn&#8217;t go to MTA, but I remember hearing these &#8220;George stories&#8221; from all my friends. I remember the guy from my YU times, he was always a bit creepy. 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