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A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism

The welfare of the child requires that every allegation be investigated. By: Rabbi Yosef Blau As the scandals and the chillul Hashem inc...

Tzedek has announced its inaugural NSW event, an information session on ‘Child Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community’ The event will be chair...

Different types of childhood abuse can increase the risk of mental illness as well as sexual dysfunction, experts say, but the biological me...

What is it like to raise a child who's different from you in some fundamental way?  In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon...

THE TENDLERS GO TO CHINA: Suddenly all kinds of people in China are offering to sleep with the headmaster. The unusual outpouring is in re...

The latest figures from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) make depressing reading. The volume of child abuse images being reported and det...

By Dr. Michael Salamon Zelig (not his real name), a man in his 20′s, arrived to his therapy appointment with me yesterday with tears strea...

Good people cannot accept the evil and sick deeds that are done by some in our community. On Sunday we published an article by Rabbi Willi...

Police are reopening a cold case regarding the death of a 15-year-old rabbinical student from Staten Island. Chaim Weiss was found dead by...

WATCH VIDEO: http://nyti.ms/10kRIAD For this Op-Doc video, we visited a small community in Florida known as “Miracle Village,” where more ...

This is the third in a four-part series on child sexual abuse. On Tuesday, a victim tells her story in the Aiken Standard. Nelson Mandela,...

I Was Groped on the Subway I was late as usual, weaving through the 72nd Street subway station, rushing down the stairs to catch a departi...

1:16 PM EST Kolko agrees to a 10 year sentence according to multiple reliable sources! *** UPDATED & CONFIRMED: Former NJ yeshiva...

By Susan H. Oliva \ Guest columnist If you have a radio, television or Internet access, I guarantee you have heard the about the recent Cl...

There are only 2 Blogs that have made a darn of a difference to your tiny world and world view. All the rest are just a bunch of rehashed no...

TOMS RIVER — Yosef Kolko was a popular camp counselor who helped an unpopular young boy fit in during the summer after the fifth grade, in 2...

Boston clergy abuse lawyer calls for raising age limit on lawsuits against child molesters BOSTON — An attorney who helped lead an $85 mil...

Secrecy on trial in Kolko case There should be a medal for the Lakewood family that is seeking justice for their son in the courts, despit...

This Ad Has a Secret Anti-Abuse Message That Only Kids Can See In an effort to provide abused children with a safe way to reach out for ...

What Makes Me a Survivor? I was hurt And vulnerable Hurt and unprotected And mocked Put down And trampled upon Pushed through the dir...

Our View: Removing an unjustifiable restriction The damaging effects of some crimes linger for decades. Some damage lives permanently. A...

Behind a rising suicide rate, a struggle for answers The parents of a man from Florissant who committed suicide in 2009 sued the St. Louis...

Reports of rapes of very young girls continue to surface in India, appalling citizens and sparking protests. On Monday, a 4-year old girl di...