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I wish you would’ve known. I wish you would’ve seen. I wish you would’ve cared. I wish you would’ve known the years of pain…
Read moreC-PTSD: I can’t stand you! Get far away from my life and just leave me alone! Stop it with your reminders, I don’t appreciate reliving my…
Read moreI was once again sitting on that green couch in my therapists room. That infamous couch which I’ve become both friends and enemies with. It was…
Read moreIf only the walls of my room would have a voice, they would speak of the amount of tears I’ve shed behind closed doors. If only the voicemail on…
Read moreBy Yisroael Ben Simcha Understanding all the tapestry. Woven cloths that make me sing. I love the tapestry of trees. Woven, yet people see what I cannot…
Read more“Tell me why you feel ashamed”, you asked. “Please help me understand. You were just an innocent child, And you suffered at his hand.”…
Read moreBy a survivor It’s been a long and difficult day for me. I came home and sat on my couch holding my beautiful baby in my arms, watching him…
Read moreSailing down the river in my beautiful custom boat, filled with every luxurious upgrade that one can dream of. As I’m smoothly traveling along the…
Read moreDear Rabbi, I write to you with a mixture of extreme pain, anguish and anger. Where were you? What were you thinking? Where was your intuition?…
Read moreBy a survivor Recovery from abuse is a long and bumpy process. I have gone through so much and now I am finally starting to feel like a person again.…
Read moreI am sitting here a shell of a person, bleeding from wounds that I thought were long healed. For so long I thought that I was moving forward but in a…
Read moreThere was once a family, not long ago, that had the most wonderful parents and seven beautiful children. Life for both the children and the parents was…
Read moreDear readers, Please sit back and close your eyes while I walk you through my life. The “life of a sexual abuse victim”. I say “life”…
Read moreDear friends, I was in a terrible car accident yesterday. I was not at fault and didn’t see the car coming. It happened so quickly. My car…
Read moreJimmy Julius (Yosef Chaim) Karow, 48 was indicted on numerous charges this Wednesday after JCW investigators tracked the wanted child rapist down to a…
Read moreThree decades ago. I’m not even eight years old. I’m in the hospital recovering from an illness. A nurse comes in and takes it upon herself…
Read moreHaifa University and Anima-ey are in the process of developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to detect sexual abuse experiences among children…
Read moreTwo years ago, 53-year old Avraham Eisenbach, the gabbai of a Jerusalem synagogue, sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in a trailer behind his synagogue.…
Read moreI just came home from the final court case of a victim of sexual abuse. The beautiful and brave victim got up to speak as well as some other family members.…
Read moreIn September 2017, Williamsburg resident Joseph Grunwald was arrested for molesting a 7-year-old girl in a synagogue on Yom Kippur, and charged with 3…
Read more“My body was painfully used For someone so vicious and bad Until it was scratched and bruised Changing the life I once had This body is no longer…
Read moreTo my abuser, When will I move on, when will I heal? When will your abuse stop feeling so real? When will it change? When will it stop? Will I ever climb…
Read moreThe following article was submitted to JCW by a survivor of incest. JCW has been working to assist the survivor and her family. She asked that it be published…
Read moreThe day following his Bar Mitzvah, a 13-year-old boy was married to a 12-year-old girl in the ‘Shaalim community’ (also known as the “Taliban…
Read moreNew York passed a landmark law which extends the statute of limitations for child sex abuse, for both criminal and civil lawsuits. Attorneys Irwin Zalkin…
Read moreThe allegation that Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman used his position to help obtain a false psychiatric report in order to help Malka Leifer avoid…
Read moreA 40-year-old haredi Gush Etzion resident was arrested following a report that his son exhibited signs of years of physical abuse. During the interrogation,…
Read moreOn April 4th, Yitzi/Yitzchak Rosman (aka Eugene) was arrested and subsequently indicted on multiple charges of child sexual abuse of a minor. SVU detectives…
Read moreבשנת 2013 אליהו שפראן הואשם בבית משפט מחוזי בירושלים במספר אישומים של תקיפה מינית בקטינים, לאחר שהואשם בפגיעה במספר ילדות קטינות. שפראןהיה סופר…
Read moreאל אלא אני בוכיה Every tisha bav I sit on the floor. I cry for עם ישראל and I cry for my own personal galus. Thrown out because I was sexually abused…
Read moreI mourn the loss of control on my body I mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn the loss of my teen years I mourn the loss of joy I mourn the loss of…
Read moreI just saw you! You. You, who robbed my life. You, who stole my peace of mind. You, who hurt me and burned me. You, who extinguished the…
Read moreIn 2015, the FBI arrested and charged New Jersey- based therapist Elliot Halberstam with three counts of sexual enticement and exploitation…
Read moreI’m Sitting at the shore of the Atlantic Ocean after an extremely painful therapy session. I once again went deeply into the most traumatic part…
Read morePosition Title: Victim Advocate Department/Division: Investigative…
Read moreWhenever we offer educational events, we expect lots of questions from parents and teachers in the room. But as anyone who has ever run a child safety…
Read moreTo my Abuser I’ve reached a new and very special milestone today. I got to a place in which I thought I’ll never get to. It was so meaningful…
Read moreBy Shana Aaronson, director of JCW-Israel Unless you live under a rock, over the last week you have heard this horrific news of the rape of a 7 year old…
Read moreToday, Menachem (Mendy) Weiss of Los Angeles pled guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a minor in New Jersey with the prosecution recommending a six-year…
Read moreVictim Impact Statement Menachem M. Weiss sentencing, September 9, 2019 I never thought this day would come. 20 years ago, my parents entrusted me to…
Read moreAccording to the New York Post, Rabbi Joel Falk is named by a former Yeshiva Torah Temimah student in a new lawsuit, one of the first against a rabbi under…
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