Tuesday, August 01, 2017

How do you wrap yourself in a tallis, bind your tefillin, fooling yourself that your outward show of piety is worth anything, when survivors cannot bear the pain anymore and are killing themselves in unprecedented numbers?

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Kinah: From A Survivor Of Child Sexual Abuse The following poem is a contemporary kinah, lamentation, written in commemoration of T...
Monday, July 31, 2017

All Across The Religious Divide Children Are Destroyed By Clergy --- “Everything I have been saying for the past 30 years, when no one believed me, everything I have been fighting for the past seven years is now public.”

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Sunday, July 30, 2017

A one-to-three-inch scar, and the way he pulled his pants over his shoes, helped seal Rabbi Daniel Greer’s fate with police investigating whether he repeatedly sexually assaulted yeshiva students over a period of years.

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Ponvert added that the arrest sends an important message about childhood sexual abuse. “My client and I hope that the $20 million judgment ...
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Friday, July 28, 2017

Remember what the neighbours in Germany did when the nazi's came to collect us, they stood there, the majority of them, went back inside to finish their dinner and piano practice, and felt good about themselves that they didn't partake in any bloodshed.

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   by Chani Slabotsky Every time I hear about another victim coming forward another perpetrator ch...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

The alleged assaults occurred in various locations including on school property, at Greer's home and in motels in Connecticut and Pennsylvania beginning when Mirlis was 15, according to a copy of the lawsuit provided by Ponvert.

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New Haven Rabbi Charged With Sex Assault, Police Say  “Sexual predators — especially this so-called ‘rabbi’ and others who twist spirit...