Republished from themamabeareffect.org 1. No one can be prepared for such a traumatic experience. Victims often go into shock and then denial. Reporting may not even come to mind until they have actually grasped what has happened to them. 2. Since rape often is perpetrated by someone known to the victim, there are often […]
By Aviva Bar-Am, Photos by Shmuel Bar-Am. Republished from the Times of Israel Not long ago, a nine year old girl returned home from her Jerusalem school in a state of shock. She had been standing on the sidewalk near the school, when a kindly older man asked if he could help her cross the […]
By Dr. Michael J. Salamon Republished from the Jewish Press As the number of accusers coming forward against Bill Cosby continues to grow, some of us seem shocked that someone so revered – a man in the public eye for more than 50 years – could allegedly have been a vicious predator and gotten […]
(This article first appeared in Hebrew on the Kikar Shabbat news site.) Nazareth District Court convicted R. Yaakov Deutsch of performing criminal acts on four young boys and girls. The court rejected the arguments of the Rabbi who claimed that this was a conspiracy. Four years after the publication of the incident that caused much […]
Rabbi Piekarski, I sat (and stood) STILL in my classroom, while you inappropriately touched my eight year-old body. Now it’s your turn to BE STILL and listen to what can happen when a rabbi and trusted teacher crosses the line. My family had just moved to San Diego. I was a new student at the […]
I am a 46 year-old Jewish woman who grew up in San Diego, California. As a child, I attended The San Diego Hebrew Day School at the age of 9-10 years old (1975-1976). My parents wanted me to have a Jewish education and I found great pride, strength, understanding, humility and meaning in defining myself […]
(This page has been translated from Hebrew to English. See the original article here:http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4603358,00.html) Three and a half years after she complained to the police that her father raped her, Vered Lev put an end to her life in Portugal. “There is no doubt that the failure of charges to be filed against her father […]
Martin Vegh, who was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison for sexually abusing a seven year-old girl and an eight year-old girl, has been released and is currently living in Queens, NY. His current address is: 92-36 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, New York 11433 Please take all necessary precautions. View Martin Vegh’s profile and […]
Republished from Israel National News – Yeshiva University (YU) is offering a new online course for rabbis to prepare them in dealing with a topic that many say does not receive enough attention in the religious world – child abuse. The 12-week course on preventing child abuse is a joint offering by YU’s Center for […]
(Republished from the Jerusalem Post) A middle-aged Jerusalem man lured a seven-year old girl into his car with candy, drove her to a secluded forest, and sexually assaulted her, police announced Wednesday, as the suspect was brought for his second remand extension. The suspect, a 48-year-old taxi driver, was arrested last Thursday. Police described the […]
The Forward Reports: NEW SQUARE, NEW YORK — To his hasidim, Rabbi David Twersky is nearly akin to God. But that does not mean he exempts himself from the obligations God imposes on all Jews, at least as traditionalists understand them. Like his followers, Twersky prays to God three times a day. But unlike other Hasidic […]
The JewishWeek Reports: This summer Rabbi Elimelech Meisels, 45, a former Chicagoan who has owned and has taught at four Bais Yaakov seminaries for American girls studying in Israel, was found guilty of sexual misconduct by the only American beit din (religious court) specifically dealing with charges of sexual abuse. In an unusually strong statement dated […]
SYDNEY, Australia — An Orthodox Jewish teacher was deported to the United States after serving a jail sentence for sexually abusing four boys at a Jewish school in Melbourne more than two decades ago. David Kramer, 54, was sentenced last year to a non-parole period of 18 months after pleading guilty to abusing the four […]
