Monday, April 18, 2016

“Before you were elected to the Knesset, I was in Kollel (religious seminary for married men), and could not support my growing family,” he began. “So I went to work. But I felt like a second-class citizen when I did so, and was made to feel that way by those around me who were still in Kollel. It got so bad that when I saw someone who knew me walking by the place where I worked, I would hide so they would not see me working.”

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Who Is Really Endangering the Future of Judaism in Israel? Author: Dov Lipman   A yeshiva student...
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Friday, April 15, 2016

Stopping the enemies of Jewish tradition - (Where the author uses charedi or yeshivish, I take exception to that if they are in fact worldly, educated in the sciences, and believe that each child must be lead on the path that suits him or her best - PM)

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There is a certain group within the Jewish people that over and over again stray from our holy tradition.  These people act as if they have...
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Thursday, April 14, 2016

How many women remember the Kobe Bryant case and don’t file a rape charge? “Sexual assault has always been one of the lowest reported crimes,” Steinhauser said. “There’s this mentality of blame the victim, but victims do enough blaming of themselves. So many victims decide it’s not worth it.”

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The Legacy Of The Kobe Bryant Rape Case by Lindsay Gibbs    In this July 18, 2003, file photo, Los Angeles Lake...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

"So here and now, we must as a community make a choice. When rabbis like Rabbi Pruzansky claim that sexual assault is not a problem in the Jewish community, we must say that they are wrong. When they imply that victims are to blame, we must say that they are wrong. When they use their positions of power to protect perpetrators and hurt victims by spreading lies about victims of sexual assault, we must say that they are wrong"....

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Avigail Gordon, PhD Steven Pruzansky Home Education Presentations & Publications Research Interests Supe...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The Commentor That Can Name The Most People In This Photograph - Will Get a FREE UOJ Cap!

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Clockwise: Mutty Parness two guitars top row, Yisroel Lamm, Professional Trumpeter, David Nulman, Chaim Fessel,  Shmuel Boruch Bagry - Acc...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

“Victims of sexual abuse as children want Mr. Silver to have sufficient time away to think about how he abandoned his victims...” the letter says. “Allow Mr. Silver to share in the lifetime of pain that he will now have in common with the victims of childhood sexual abuse.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Sheldon Silver accused of blocking bills to aid sexually abused kids after Catholic group hired his longtime aide as a lobbyi...
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Sunday, April 10, 2016

"He says he's getting a heart attack. Know what I do? Continue the ride and let him die. I'm very serious. Be prepared for that. My boys don't care," says Epstein.

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Yisroel Belsky & His Partner In Crime Mendel Epstein, In Happier Times For Both Of Them! BOTH IMPRISONED - one - B 'Yeshi...
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Friday, April 08, 2016

What is it we have to say about the larger issues of religious fundamentalism, patriarchy’s power, women as catalysts for change, and the current schism in the Jewish world around these very issues?

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  Orthodox Women, Escaping by Susan Reimer-Torn Published in the Spring 2016 issue of Jewish Currents It's The Fundamentalism...