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A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism

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On the eve of Yom Kippur, please take the time to sign this petition on behalf of Sholom Rubashkin. He has committed serious crimes, but doe...

We confront G-d as individuals on Rosh Hashanah, and not as members of a group. His first question will be the same as that of the assistant...

If you want to understand just how religious authoritarianism harms children, look no further than the actions of a powerful group of ra...

After the deaths of two children who contracted the herpes virus through an ultra-orthodox practice of circumcision, the New York City Board...

by Rabbi Yakov Horowitz As we prepare to stand before Hashem in the days to come, and daven (pray) for ourselves, our families and all of...

In the wake of the first conviction of a Catholic bishop in the decades-long clergy sex abuse crisis, bishops throughout the country ha...

Suffer The Children Just how flagrant does a pedophile need to be before the people around him contact the police? Just how far beyond s...

Regular readers of these pages are most likely strong supporters in the safety net programs set up in the New Deal, Great Society and ...

Every day we lose an untold amount of kids because of their inability to reconcile Torah and science. Thanks to the yeshivas and Bais Yaa...

Exchange words Gadol, Rabbi, Torah, Yeshiva, Synagogue... for the Catholic versions and we have the identical group of cri...

The Canadian Broadcast Company (CBC) is asking that any victim of Heshy Nussbaum to PLEASE contact the journalist handling this story. I am ...

Priest Puts Blame on Some Victims of Sexual Abuse A prominent Roman Catholic spiritual leader who has spent decades counseling wayward ...

New York state has one of the country's strictest statute of limitations for sexual abuse claims, despite lobbying by advocates who say ...

School Abuse Case May Proceed Judge Says A top-tier Brooklyn private school cannot automatically use New York State’s statute of limitatio...

  On September 13, the New York City Board of Health is scheduled to vote on a controversial proposal that would officially define an ancien...

I believe in every case of  credible allegations of child abuse - the police must be called immediately ; they have the ability to sort it...