Monday, February 08, 2016

Yisroel Belsky - Parting Thoughts "Shameless in his defense of convicted child molesters Yudi Kolko & Yosef Kolko, Belsky was just as shameless when he lied about the dangers of m’tzitzah b’peh and campaigned for a practice that kills Jewish babies."

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BELSKY THE KRUM   GUEST POST by Michael Lesher Esq.             Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld once informed me (by email) that my accu...
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Thursday, February 04, 2016

Let there be no illusions – the campaign to end the scourge of sexual abuse is as pertinent for the Jewish community as it is within all of our society.....

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 Chief Rabbi Mirvis: I salute the bravery of sexual abuse victims who speak out by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis Chief Rabbi Mirv...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2016

We must make sure that such a person will never again be in a position to repeat such offenses. It is therefore not enough to fire the perpetrator from his (or her) work place: it is both the organization’s and society’s duty to make sure that the crimes are known and punished....

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Mishpatim – Judaism Abhors Child Abuse by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz    J...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2016

One of the two rabbinical leaders of the anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox Satmar sect of Hasidim is due to visit Israel bearing cash for anti-draft yeshivas that boycott IDF draft notices...

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Satmar rabbi to visit Israel with money for army draft opponents   ...
Monday, February 01, 2016

Still, the walls of the ultra-Orthodox ghetto have been breached and thousands are pouring out, much the way the Jews of Germany, Austria and Hungary did when their own ghetto walls fell between the times of Moshe Sofer and Herzl....

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The new Zionists: Ultra-Orthodoxy has effectively surren...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

The “Ultra” approach worked for a while but it won’t anymore, and the problem is there is no ready alternative available. The mild American version of Haredism is really just parasitic on the Israeli version, and has it’s own fatal weaknesses....

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On the alleged collapse of Haredism Channel 10 news has come under a lot of fire recently (mainly from Haredi media ...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

I Can't Believe We Made It!

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

I was told privately that he was being prevented from working for any other Hillel and was being required — I’m not sure how or whether this was enforced — to go to counseling. I never heard from him or saw him again. I can still locate him on Google, and he seems only to have worked in non-rabbinic fields since that time....

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The Right Way To Deal With A Sexual Advance Twenty years ago, my Hillel rabbi, a bearded man in a ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

When smartphones came along, they forced the mobile phone vendors to sell “kosher” devices blocking unclean and heretical websites including, shamefully, those offering support to the victims of sexual abuse.....

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Prepare for an Earthquake in the Jewish World   Religious Jews, of every stripe and flavor, are now doing it for themselves, and the rabb...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Our community needs to wake up to the reality of how predators operate, and not rationalize away their behavior. Otherwise, we are all responsible for contributing to the walls of silence around the sexual crimes of the powerful....

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Sacrificing Victims On The Altars Of Silence And Power  Stories about sexual violence and rabbis behaving badly continue to m...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

His reputation in the (Orthodox Jewish) community is of a gentle, kind man" ... Another "Great Guy and Great Dad"...

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Reich denied bail in Scarsdale slaying Reich stabbed his wife at least 21 times, prosecutors alleged in court Friday. A...