Tag: Dannielle Blumenthal
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Judith Light in Transparent, & the Hidden Abuse of Jewish Women
Just finished Season 4, Ep. 8 where Shelly (Judith Light) tells her kids about the ongoing molestation she experienced at the hands of a beloved teacher when she was only 10 years old. “I was only 10,” she practically whispers. It is impossible to capture in words the expressions on her family’s faces as she…
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Target Practice on the Tofel
Once I had a friend who went out on a date with an Orthodox Jewish young man. She asked him about his past “experience” and he told her it was “really nothing,” just “target practice on a shiksa.” Someone else I know went out on a date with an Orthodox Jewish young man, many years…
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Misusing The Torah To Enable Child Predators
Incredibly, Jewish Community Watch, a wonderful organization that protects children from child sex predators within the community, is being taken to a religious court (Beis Din) for warning people about the presence of a pedophile. Prior to this, a well known child safety advocate, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, was also sued by a predator for doing…
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Facing A Jewish Community In Denial: Vicki Polin
Some Jewish people do bad things, but not all bad things are done by Jews. Nevertheless, we’ve had enough anti-Semitism lobbed against us that we’re afraid. So when Vicki Polin appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show (under the pseudonym “Rachel”), on May 1, 1989, her appearance upset the Jewish community greatly. “Rachel” stated that she had…
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8 Memoirs by Survivors of Satanic Ritual Abuse
A significant number of people have come forward to talk about their experiences with Satanic Ritual Abuse. See the books below, as well as the ongoing account of Becki Piercy; this account of ritual abuse in France; the story of Charlotte; the Dutroux case in Belgium; and the Fiona Bartlett story. Also see this clip of Vicki…
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The Pseudo-Science of Tznius
I’ve done some writing and editing for Vivien Resofsky, an Australian Jewish social worker who champions evidence-based prevention and treatment of child sexual assault.Vivien has sensitized me to a problem in Jewish society wherein pseudoscientific answers are brought to bear on serious criminal and social problems that require a scientific approach.One of these pseudoscientific answers is…
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What Happened To Us – A Meditation On "Gen X NCSY Jews"
Late at night when I think about how I am, I recognize the signs and symptoms. There is a sense of doom and foreboding. A raw, sarcastic humor. It bites. A harsh view of the world, combined with an odd kind of hope. Admiration for heroes. A view of heroes as individual, suffering crusaders. Deep…
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Some Reflections On Jewish Love & Marriage
I graduated Bruriah High School, a religious yeshiva for girls, in 1987. Some of the graduating seniors got married right away. To me it was sort of a marvel, how quickly they sealed up their lives. A lot of girls went to seminary for a year. That wasn’t my plan; I wanted to get to…
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In Judaism, Missing The Forest For The Trees
“If someone is studying Torah and fails to hear a baby’s cry, there is something very wrong with his learning.” —Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, z”l, founder of Chabad, considered the largest Jewish religious organization in the world, whose primary purpose is outreach. Read the story behind the quote here. Being a Jew is not…
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Revelations of Horrific Abuse Are Part Of The Redemption
This morning I watched a powerful video about the near death experience of a devout Christian man. He was told that the people would not listen, and that we are almost out of time. Some people are caught up in religion. But according to Jewish prophecy, all will experience the Redemption together in the end, regardless of…