A Rabbi Accused of Sexual Abuse Seeks to Reinvent Himself
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Back in 2004, Gary Rosenblatt weighed the evidence and considered Marc Gafni's case. Is there a statute of limitations for rabbis accused of abuse, and should...
View ArticleSexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities: Michael...
Steve Lipman Staff Writer The disgrace of sexual abusers (nearly entirely men) who identify themselves as Orthodox Jews is a well-known subject, covered extensively in recent decades in the Jewish and...
View ArticleAn Important Step In Confronting Abuse
Wed, 12/03/2014 Editorial The longstanding effort to increase awareness of sexual abuse in the Orthodox community received a major boost this week. Hundreds of Israeli social workers, therapists,...
View ArticleTeacher Jailed For Sex Abuse At Aussie Jewish School Deported To U.S.
JTA 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.read more
View ArticleOrthodox Must Fight Sexual Abuse
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Cultural change needed, as denial and inaction still prevalent, experts insist at synagogue forum. David Cheifetz, describing himself as the name and face of...
View ArticleEx-Rabbi At Long Island Yeshiva Abused Student, Cops Say
Staff Report Rabbi Gary Lieberman sexually abused a 10-year-old student at Hebrew Academy of Nassau County when he was a teacher there, police said Friday. The abuse allegedly took place at the...
View ArticleYU Fires Professor With Abuse Record
JTA (JTA) -- Yeshiva University terminated Akiva Roth, a recently hired teacher, after his past sexual misconduct came to light. Roth, 42, who started as a Hebrew teacher this term at Yeshiva College,...
View ArticleWhistleblower's Lawyers Blast Hynes
Hella Winston Jewish Week Correspondent On eve of primary, Kellner's attorneys say Brooklyn DA is engaging in ‘blatant strategy of delay.’ Lawyers for chasidic whistleblower Sam Kellner have accused...
View ArticleYU President Expresses `Shame' Over Abuse Findings, Pride In Current Policies
Gary Rosenblatt Editor & Publisher Independent report cites ‘multiple instances’ of abuse, not just at YU high school; ‘significant improvement’ since 2001. Yeshiva University President Richard...
View ArticleChasidic Whistleblower Trial Postponed
Hella Winston Special Correspondent Sam Kellner’s ordeal with the Brooklyn DA continues, as prosecutors investigate his accusers. On Monday, a Brooklyn judge for the second time postponed the start of...
View ArticleThe YU Impasse: Putting A Price On Sexual Abuse
Gary Rosenblatt Editor And Publisher Sorting through conflicting interests when it comes to compensation for alleged victims. A few days before Tisha b’Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar, I...
View ArticleOn Abuse Prosecutions, A Tale Of Two Cities
Ben Hirsch Special To The Jewish Week On April 14, 2008, Rabbi Yehuda Kolko, a 62-year-old Brooklyn yeshiva teacher charged with sexually molesting two students, pleaded guilty to lesser charges of...
View ArticleCourt Awards $3.5 Million In Abuse Case
Staff Report A Jewish gay activist who sued his cousin for allegedly molesting him for several years has been awarded $3.5 million in Brooklyn Supreme Court, according to the Daily News.read more
View ArticleYosef Kolko, Former Camp Counselor, Admits Sex Abuse
JTA Lakewood teacher is nephew of Brooklyn rabbi accused of similar crimes. A former counselor at a summer camp run by a yeshiva in Lakewood, N.J., admitted three days into his trial to sexually...
View Article‘It’s Very Hard To Come Forward’
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Experts say it can take years for abuse victims talk openly about their pasts. Like David Cheifetz, many victims of abuse do not confront their past, or their abusers, for...
View ArticleWrong Message On Weberman Sentencing
In sentencing Nechemya Weberman to 103 years in jail last week for sexually abusing a young woman from the Satmar chasidic community, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Ingram said he hoped to send a...
View ArticleRabbi, Why Are the Classical Sources Quiet on Child Abuse?
Rabbi Gerald Skolnik Jewish Week Online Columnist A friend who read my article last week, on the subject of social and sexual pathologies in the Jewish community and the tendency to try and hide them,...
View ArticleLearning To Accept Our Ordinariness
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View ArticleTim Boxer At YU Convocation
Tim Boxer Jewish Week Correspondent As President Richard Joel bestowed honorary degrees at Yeshiva University’s 88th convocation last week at the Waldorf-Astoria, not a word was uttered about...
View ArticleYU President Calls Abuse Allegations 'Reprehensible'
JTA and Staff The president of Yeshiva University said the school had a "zero tolerance" policy for sexual abuse and harassment following a lengthy investigation of past abuse allegations in the...
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