{"id":51311,"date":"2013-12-07T18:18:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51311"},"modified":"2013-12-07T18:18:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T02:18:46","slug":"the-child-rape-assembly-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51311","title":{"rendered":"The Child Rape Assembly Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

From JCW<\/a>: Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg\u2014who is 63 with a long, graying beard\u2014recently sat down with me to explain what he described as a \u201cchild-rape assembly line\u201d among sects of fundamentalist Jews. He cleared his throat. \u201cI\u2019m going to be graphic,\u201d he said.
\nA member of Brooklyn\u2019s Satmar Hasidim fundamentalist branch of Orthodox Judaism, Nuchem designs and repairs mikvahs in compliance with Torah Law. The mikvah is a ritual Jewish bathhouse used for purification. Devout Jews are required to cleanse themselves in the mikvah on a variety of occasions: women must visit following menstruation, and men have to make an appearance before the High Holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Many of the devout also purify themselves before and after the act of sex, and before the Sabbath.
\nOn a visit to Jerusalem in 2005, Rabbi Rosenberg entered into a mikvah in one of the holiest neighborhoods in the city, Mea She\u2019arim. \u201cI opened a door that entered into a schvitz,\u201d he told me. \u201cVapors everywhere, I can barely see. My eyes adjust, and I see an old man, my age, long white beard, a holy-looking man, sitting in the vapors. On his lap, facing away from him, is a boy, maybe seven years old. And the old man is having anal sex with this boy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From JCW: Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg\u2014who is 63 with a long, graying beard\u2014recently sat down with me to explain what he described as a \u201cchild-rape assembly line\u201d among sects of fundamentalist Jews. He cleared his throat. \u201cI\u2019m going to be graphic,\u201d … Continue reading →<\/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-51311","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