{"id":50700,"date":"2013-10-10T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50700"},"modified":"2013-10-10T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:59:03","slug":"the-cycle-of-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50700","title":{"rendered":"The Cycle Of Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/danny_gordis.htm\">As I reported in 2006 about Rabbi Daniel Gordis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn 1993, Conservative legal scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary professor Joel Roth was disciplined for having an inappropriate relationship with a male student (reported in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by Debra Nussbaum-Cohen). I believe that student was Danny Gordis. Gordis and Roth were close during the 1980s and they published responsa (answers to questions about Jewish law) together.<\/p>\n<p>Danny is known for having intense intimate relationships (I am not saying they were necessarily sexual) with his favorite students, be they male or female. &#8220;He has a lot of groupies,&#8221; says a source. &#8220;Mostly women. He always seemed to have the more attractive women students really close to him.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/scroll\/148490\/convicted-sex-offender-taught-for-years-at-jts\">Now Tablet magazine reports<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, the Forward reported that Akiva Roth, a newly hired Hebrew instructor at Yeshiva University, pleaded guilty in 1997 to lewd conduct involving several bar mitzvah students. Omitted in that story and today\u2019s follow-up editorial, however, was another aspect of Roth\u2019s biography: he taught summer courses in Hebrew Grammar at the Jewish Theological Seminary just a few years after he was convicted in court.<\/p>\n<p>Roth\u2019s online resume at Radaris states:<\/p>\n<p>Position: Instructor of intensive ulpan in hebrew grammar     Jun 2000 to 2004<br \/>\nCompany: Jewish theological seminary of america \u2013 New York, NY<\/p>\n<p>These revelations about Roth\u2019s prior employment, first noted by blogger FailedMessiah and subsequently confirmed by Tablet, suggest that Roth\u2019s past conduct was either not investigated or overlooked by two of America\u2019s preeminent Jewish educational institutions. Notably, Roth\u2019s father, Rabbi Joel Roth, is a professor of Talmud and Jewish Law at JTS who previously stepped down as dean of its rabbinical school after allegedly making a sexually explicit statement to a student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reported in 2006 about Rabbi Daniel Gordis: In 1993, Conservative legal scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary professor Joel Roth was disciplined for having an inappropriate relationship with a male student (reported in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by Debra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=50700\">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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50702,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50700\/revisions\/50702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}