Wednesday, April 03, 2019

'There's a Hole in the System. Israel Became a Haven for Suspected Jewish Sex Offenders'

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Malka Leifer is facing possible extradition on 74 counts of suspected sexual abuse. She was the headmistress of an ultra-Orthodox girls...
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Tuesday, April 02, 2019

For years, the Jewish community denied the prevalence of sexual abuse, so it is undeniable that this discussion is progress....

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Changes in the communal response to sexual abuse Not a week goes by without a new case of sexual abuse being reported in...
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Monday, April 01, 2019

The (Pre) Easter Post!

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A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation in Jerusalem . While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husb...
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It's Those Self-Hating Jews Again at The New York Times...What Can They Possibly Know Without Torah?

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An Outbreak Spreads Fear: Of Measles, of Ultra-Orthodox Jews, of Anti-Semitism   A measles outbreak in a New York suburb has sickened ...
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Friday, March 29, 2019

"This is the real disease in our community – knowing that sexual abuse is happening, and doing nothing, or worse, defending the abuser."

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Don’t use ‘anti-Semitism’ to protect sexual abusers On the Steinhardt allegations: Why should the needs of the Jewish People come befor...
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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Michael Steinhardt sexually harassed me. I spent the next 4 years trying to hold him accountable.

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 If Harvey Weinstein – and rape – are our only standard for what constitutes inappropriate sexual behavior, then we’ve got a serious probl...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Harvey Weinstein Gave Jobs to Lots of Jewish Women right Abe Foxman....? “Michael is very passionate, and he is passionate in everything,” Foxman is quoted as saying. “Call it a passion, call it an obsession, call it a perversion. Some may. I don’t — I understand it. It’s just the way it comes out, which may disturb people.”

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After allegations against Michael Steinhardt, beneficiaries are not eager to talk ...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

"If we lose our capacity for solitude, our ability to be alone with ourselves, then we lose our very ability to think. We risk getting caught up in the crowd. We risk being ‘swept away’, as she put it, ‘by what everybody else does and believes in’ – no longer able, in the cage of thoughtless conformity, to distinguish ‘right from wrong, beautiful from ugly’.

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by Jennifer Stitt In 1840, Edgar Allan Poe described the ‘mad energy’ of an ageing man who roved the streets of London from dus...
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Monday, March 25, 2019

“That a rosh yeshiva could say something like that is shocking and unacceptable."

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Aviezer Filtz, a  clown in the United Torah Judaism party and head of the religious seminary Yeshivat Toshia in the southern town of Tif...
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Friday, March 22, 2019

“For more than 40 years, Yeshiva University covered up the sexual abuse of its students, and now finally, our clients have an opportunity to have their day in court,” lawyer Kevin Mulhearn, who represents 34 former pupils from the school, told The Post on Wednesday....

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Alleged sexual abuse victims at Yeshiva University prepare lawsuit Zysman Hall at Yeshiva Universi...
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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Another Naked Man Dies In Jump From Borough Park Office Building

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From The UOJ Classics - More relevant today than in 2005 A naked man darted from a car into a Borough Park office building at lunchtime...
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