Add your Name. Protect children from sexual abuse. Stand with survivors. Five years ago, Jewish Community Watch burst on to the scene with a rallying cry which resonated throughout the Jewish community: Enough!!! Enough of our children being abused! Enough cover-ups! Enough protecting abusers! Enough shaming victims! Enough abandoning survivors! From its humble beginnings, JCW […]
My first encounter with JCW was at an event in my hometown. I had long suppressed my sexual abuse, which had been perpetrated by a family member. I struggled to cope and go about living my life normally. It was hard. I was affected daily, but I couldn’t risk sharing what I was going through, […]
Yoel Oberlander was arrested and charged with groping a sleeping woman aboard a flight from Israel to New Jersey in May. This unfortunate story has many important lessons and highlights the dire need for the work done by JCW. In 2002 Oberlander was convicted of sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl in Monsey, New York. Despite […]
Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman (PICTURED ABOVE) is Rav Congregation Ahavas Israel in Passaic NJ. He sent out the following email immediately after finding out that convicted sex offender Stefan Colmer had moved back to Passaic. From: R. Y. Eisenman <[email protected] Subject: Important Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2016, 10:02 PM Please be aware that Stefan […]
The JEM Summer Camp in Beverly Hills, which has come under scrutiny in recent years for its affiliation with convicted child sex abuser Mendel Tevel, has rebranded as Camp One Lev. Rabbi Hertzel Illulian, the founder and director of the JEM Youth Center in Beverly Hills, hired his son-in-law, Mendel Tevel, as youth director in […]
