Friday, May 13, 2016

Shhh: Ultra-Orthodox Jews Use Internet as Much as Other Israelis Do --- Ultra-Orthodox Jews go online to gossip, share views and let down their hair, but usually under fake names, a recent study shows....

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Their rabbis don’t like it, but ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel surf the internet like mad, a recent study shows. Some use their home c...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

Agudah director of public affairs and regular newspaper columnist Rabbi Avi Shafran declared, “We do not oppose extending or even eliminating the criminal statute of limitations for cases of abuse. Our concern is simply protecting the economic viability of Jewish schools. Yeshivas operate on shoestring budgets.”

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What is the Difference Between a Sociopath, a Compulsive, a Pathological, a Chronic, and a Habitual Liar? No Difference At All  for Shafran...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

What good are your schools and yeshivas if the children who get raped and sexually abused there leave Judaism in disgust, as many victims already have? Is this what you're proud of and have dedicated your lives to? Do you think that God really wants you to protect a bunch of bricks at the expense of destroying Jewish kids' souls?

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Agudath Israel and New York's Child Victim's Act For the 5 th time in a decade, Agudath Israel rabbis led by the “Gedolim...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

"These people are the same people you would see being a preacher at a church, being a school teacher, anything," said Zach. "Everybody that you see could have something under their skin that they know is wrong, no one has found out, and that scares the crap out of me. Don't trust anyone."

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Video vigilante Zach Sweers has become a Youtube star by shooting his own undercover sting operations on alleged child predators. Bu...
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Monday, May 09, 2016

It has been recently reported in Newsweek and NY Daily News that Agudath Israel has teamed up with the Catholic Church, an institution infamous for covering up child sexual abuse, to aggressively lobby against the passage of the Markey Bill on numerous occasions over the last decade....

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Agudath Israel: Stop Blocking Passage of Child Victims Act       To the Rabbinic Yeshiva Owners of Agudath Israel: We ...
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Sunday, May 08, 2016

In Honor of my Mother - Today and Every Day Forever

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Friday, May 06, 2016

As you may be aware, for the 5th time in a decade, the New York legislature will consider eliminating their disgraceful statute of limitations for child sex crimes. This would allow child rapists and sex predators to be prosecuted for their monstrous crimes against children. The first 4 times this legislation was brought up, the bill was defeated by the "holy" clergy of the Catholic Church and Agudath Israel of America.

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  AN  OPEN LETTER TO RABBI MARK DRATCH --- Where is the RCA action to protect children? Dear Rabbi Dratch, I write this letter to y...
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Thursday, May 05, 2016

“Early on in my rabbinate, I sat in a room of survivors who shared stories of abuse, and heard how rabbis and Jewish institutions had failed these survivors over and over again,” he told me. “I feel like it has to change. Religious institutions should be places of healing, places of hope and protection for people — not the other way around.”

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“It can take a lifetime to learn how to speak up to Jewish authority,” Kabakov told me as she drove home from Albany. “It can silence peo...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2016

The suit names Greer and the two schools he founded and runs — the Gan School, a mixed-gender elementary school; and the Yeshiva of New Haven, a boarding high school for boys — as defendants.

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by Paul Bass | May 3, 2016  (18) Comments | Post a Comment | E-mail the Author Posted to: Legal Writes , Religion , Edgewood ...
Tuesday, May 03, 2016

It is also long past time that Jewish leaders came to grips with the fact that rather being a source of healing for victims of child sexual abuse, sometimes our religious institutions and leaders have been part of the problem. Too often, they have discouraged victims from going to the police. Too often, they have been enablers or even perpetrators of abuse...

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Rabbi Ari Hart: Why Jewish leaders want abusers to pay   Rabbi Ari Hart --- NEW YORK DAILY NEWS   Fix the la...
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