27 years after the crimes, Trevor Bolton sentenced to 19 years for sexually abusing boys at Carmel College

One hundred and fifty orthodox Jews filled the main sanctuary of Chabad of Boca Raton on October 11 for a night of awareness and education of child abuse (CSA). The highly charged event served as an opportunity to show support to victims of abuse and to educate the public about the dangers of abuse. Rabbi […]

Arutz 7 reports. Charges were filed on Wednesday against Rabbi Shimon Amar, the haredi rabbi from Ofakim arrested two weeks ago on suspicion of sexually assaulting girls who came to him for guidance. Amar, 36, was arrested after several women complained to police that he had abused them several years earlier when they were girls. The investigation revealed that […]

We can talk about empathy, sympathy and all sorts of other feelings until we have used up all of the words. You can say you understand and you might even think that you do. But you can’t. If you have never been touched or molested or raped, you can never truly appreciate the depth of […]

The Guardian reports Dunkelfeld project aims to allow people who feel they may offend access to professional mental health treatment and attempts to modify their behaviour The first time Max Weber made his way to Berlin to take part in a therapy session, he was so nervous he vomited on the train. “I went straight […]

Defendant Sexually Abused the Victim Several Times a Week for Years BY John Marzulli NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, October 16, 2015, 3:34 PM A convicted child molester, who had skated with a slap on the wrist in state court, was nailed Friday with a 10-year sentence by a federal judge in Brooklyn. Andrew Goodman, […]

JCW returns to South Florida for the third event of the year Boca Raton FL, – One hundred and fifty orthodox Jews filled the main sanctuary of Chabad of Boca Raton on Sunday evening for a night of awareness and education of child sexual abuse (CSA). The highly charged event served as an opportunity to […]

From the Detroit Free Press, By Katrease Stafford A former Jewish Community Center counselor who is facing several federal child pornography charges will not be prosecuted locally after an investigation failed to turn up evidence that he sexually abused the children at a day camp in West Bloomfield. West Bloomfield Police Chief Michael Patton told […]

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – While Rabbi Steve Karro prepares for trial, CBS4 has learned exactly what an 11-year-old girl says happened to her inside his Miami Beach art gallery in April. According to the state’s evidence, the girl, referred to as “JM,” told investigators Karro took her to the back room and said, “You look so […]

Canyon News reports: SANTA MONICA—Eight months after a survivor spoke publicly about her years of sexual abuse from her Rabbi, on Wednesday, September 30, Santa Monica Police Department arrested and booked Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levitansky on felony charges for sexual abuse of a child.  Levitansky, 38, was charged by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office with […]

 SANTA MONICA MIRROR Reports: Santa Monica Police Detectives are seeking information or additional victims in connection with the arrest of Rabbi Sholom Doyber Levitansky. On Sept. 30, 2015 Levitansky was booked into the Santa Monica Police Department’s jail on a felony warrant for sexual abuse of a child. Levitansky is a resident of Sherman Oaks. […]

By Shlomi Diaz for Israel Hayom A Jerusalem rabbi was arrested Thursday for allegedly molesting several of his students for a number of years. The rabbi denies the allegations against him. Rabbi Moshe Avraham Steinharter, 43, was arrested by Modiin Police following a complaint by a former student, now 19, who claimed he was molested […]

By KATHERINE TOWERS for The Australian September 28, 2015 12:00AM AEDT Members of the ultra-orthodox Adass Israel School board face a possible criminal investigation for helping secrete former headmistress and serial sex offender Malka Leifer out of Australia to avoid detection, after a major backflip by Victoria Police. The Australian revealed last week that board […]

11 September 2013 Greetings and Blessings, I am writing to you on the Eve of Yom Kippur with the intention that this letter be read and contemplated in the break between Musaph and Mincha on Yom Kippur. Our Sages teach that notwithstanding the extraordinary holiness of the day, the reading of the Torah at Mincha […]

By: Rabbi Yakov Horowitz Since we posted this email on Friday  regarding the defamation lawsuit filed against me by convicted, registered level-3 sex offender Yona Weinberg, I was contacted by more than a few people with first-hand information about him that is giving me a very, very bad feeling that there is far more to […]

By Tamar Pileggi for Times of Israel Te Israel National Council for the Child has urged government ministries to take steps to prevent convicted sex offenders from immigrating to Israel. Following recent media reports revealing that a “high-risk” convicted pedophile has emigrated from the US to Israel, council director Yitzhak Kadman called on Interior Minister […]

Please see this interview that R’ David Lichtenstein did last week Motsai Shabbos with Harav Dovid Cohen, shlita. R’ Lichtenstein asked him regarding a recent letter Harav Fuerst in Chicago led and which over 100 Rabonim signed urging the reporting of child abuse to civil authorities. Harav Dovid Cohen gives his strong endorsement of the […]

A letter from Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz: Dear Readers: We’d like to share with our friends and supporters some of the details of the jaw-dropping story of Yona Weinberg, a convicted, registered, New York State Level 3 Sex Offender, who is suing me for slander in Israel.  The story became public when it was  reported in […]

By Shannon Deery, republished from the Herald Sun AN ultra-orthodox Jewish school has been ordered to pay more than $1 million to a former student who was sexually abused by a runaway principal. The windfall is believed to be the single biggest payout to a Victorian victim of child sexual abuse in a landmark case […]

By Chanel Dubofsky for the Forward When Brooklyn police went to convicted sex offender Yona Weinberg’s apartment this past January to arrest him for an alleged assault on an 11-year-old boy in August 2014, the New York Daily News reported, he had disappeared. In 2009, Weinberg served 13 months for sexually molesting two other boys, and is listed as a […]

Republished from Click On Detroit In a court document filed Thursday, federal investigators say a 21-year-old man who worked as a camp counselor at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield likely had sexual contact with children at the camp. Federal investigators say it is “extremely likely” Matthew Kuppe “engaged in some form of sexual […]

Breaking the Silence is a one hour documentary which shines a light on the challenging journey faced by those affected by child sexual abuse, as well as offers useful information to prevent abuse.  

Rabbi YY Jacobson, dean of TheYeshiva.net, delivers a powerful Elul message to survivors of child sexual abuse and to the Jewish community. He started of with the quote from Breishit; “אבל אשמים אנחנו על אחינו אשר ראינו צרת נפשו בהתחננו אלינו ולא שמענו” which translates to, “Indeed, we are guilty for our brother, that we […]