Word Prompt – GEVALT – Yisroel Picker
I recently posted the following on my LinkedIn account:
You aren’t to blame if the abuser loses their job due to your reporting.
You aren’t to blame if the abuser ends up getting divorced due to your reporting.
You aren’t to blame if the family of the abuser suffers because the abuser gets put in jail due to their actions.
And Finally:
You aren’t to blame if the abuser decided to take their own life rather than go to court and/or jail.
It is the abuser themself who is solely responsible for all the above.
Some of the comments complained that religious Jews should not be speaking about this in public. That the family of the (alleged) perpetrator shouldn’t suffer (despite the fact that I listed no names). That I was defiling Jews across the globe.
My reaction to these comments was a single word: “GEVALT!”
We have made huge strides in the area of child sex abuse prevention, but huge strides doesn’t mean we are anywhere near the goal.
...And in the beginning....בְּרֵאשִׁית
An Anonymous Flier (Pashkevil) In Brooklyn
By: Editorial Board
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
It was doubtless inadvertent, but the author of the flier makes our
point. Thus, the flier recites that "this mailing should not have been
necessary," inasmuch as the target and his employer were warned in
advance that if the individual either resigned or was fired, "th[e]
mailing would be stopped." And on the Internet, the author has declared
to one and all that he is about to "uncover" others if they do not
accede to his demands.
Plainly, this individual is engaged in an effort to fashion a weapon with which to impose his will on Klal Yisrael.
An anonymously written flier mailed recently to many Jewish homes in
Brooklyn, containing lurid accusations of improper conduct against an
individual in our community and railing against his employer for not
firing him, should be taken as a serious warning of a cancer growing in
our midst. The flier not only offers no substantiation of the charges
themselves, but also reports uncorroborated – and, it turns out, vigorously denied – comments from the employer, which the flier’s unknown author offers as proof of a cover-up.
READ IT ALL:
http://theunorthodoxjew.blogspot.com/2006/02/jewish-presstrash-weighs-in-with-their.html
