Tag: sexual abuse
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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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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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How I Became An Activist
I had gone to the White House for a meeting and on the way remarked to my boss that my father raised us to stay away from rallies. When I was young I wanted to protest for the Soviet Jews, to free them but he was afraid that the FBI would take my picture and…
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A Response On The Matter Of Child Abuse By Rabanit Yehudit Yosef [Translated]
Muting the cruel attacks / Rabanit Yehudit Yosef Subtitle: A tsunami of tears from an anonymous mother; about whom the rabbi and teacher (Rav Ovadia Yosef) said (quoting the Mishna in Nezikin/Baba Kama/Chapter 4/Verse 9) “there is no guard but a knife”; and also, silencing mechanisms continue to claim victims Description: The weekly opinion column…
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Kal Holczler and Voices of Dignity. Surviving Child Abuse In The Jewish World. (Full Transcript)
The following is my own transcription of the video, “Surviving Child Abuse In The Jewish World,” by Kal Holczler and Voices of Dignity. – Dannielle (Dossy) Blumenthal KH: I grew up in a town 40 minutes north from the city called New Square. It’s a Chasidic, Orthodox, as extreme-it-gets Jewish group of people. Narrator: The…