Tuesday, April 26, 2016

“He is a good man that loves the Lord. He doesn’t deserve what he is going through.”

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Invoking God, Prominent GOP’ers Write Letters for Dennis Hastert, Sexual Abuser of Four Boys   April 25, 2016 by Terry Firma 65 Comme...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Take to Facebook to Combat Sex Crimes --- Reporting sexual abuse is no longer as taboo as it once was, thanks in part to a group of young Haredi Israelis fed up with the silence about such crimes in their community...

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The scene captured by the surveillance camera shows an ultra-Orthodox man trying to force himself on a young boy in the narrow entrance o...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

How is it, then, that we blithely send our children to institutions that lack effective safeguards against a widely recognized danger that causes untold damage to such a huge percentage of boys and girls everywhere? Why aren’t we speaking up, demanding that our schools and camps and synagogues implement basic protocols for preventing further incidents? Could anyone think that we can afford to remain in denial?

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Child Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community Blogger   Moshe Schapiro ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Honoring Albert Einstein on his Yahrzeit

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Albert Einstein: A Jewish-American Hero “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but ...
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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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