This blog is dedicated to all those who suffered abuse at the hands of shameless Rabbis and religious institutions. May the all merciful G-D, King of all kings, be there to comfort his most prized possessions, HIS CHILDREN!!!!!!!
BROOKLYN - Yona Weinberg, 31, was convicted of seven counts of sexual abuse in the second degree and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, for sexually abusing two boys.
Weinberg, a Flatbush Bar Mitzvah tutor and licensed social worker, will be sentenced September 9. He faces up to a two years in jail.
The victims were ages 12 and 13 at the time. One was one of Weinberg’s students, from the Khal Beth Abraham synagogue, where Weinberg gave Bar Mitzvah lessons. The other was a client from Weinberg’s work as a licensed social worker for the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services.
Hebrew School Teacher Found Guilty Of Sexual Abuse
By: NY1 News
A Hebrew school teacher in Brooklyn has been found guilty of sexually abusing two students.
The Brooklyn District Attorney says Yona Weinberg, 31, was convicted of sexual abuse in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
The DA says Weinberg, a Flatbush Bar Mitzvah tutor and licensed social worker, sexually abused a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy back in May 2008.
Weinberg is due back in court on September 9th for sentencing, where he faces up to two years in jail.
A Bar Mitzvah tutor and social worker charged with molesting four teens took the stand Tuesday to deny it - and even said one of the youngsters came on to him.
Yona Weinberg, 31, of Flatbush, said one teen asked him about Viagra and sex toys while he was praying and teaching Talmud, and another tried to grab his crotch.
He denied abusing the teens.
"It never happened," the married father of four said of one boy's account of a sexual proposition.
He said another boy put his hand on his right leg in a van.
Later, the boy said, "He had feelings for me. I explained to him that they were not mutual. I told him he would eventually outgrow them."
Weinberg, a licensed social worker who is now in real estate, lost his composure only when defense lawyer Marvin Schecter asked if he had called any of the families since his May 2008 arrest.
"I called at least two other patients to inform them I was no longer allowed to work with children," he said, lowering his voice, taking off his glasses and wiping his eyes.
2) Pedophiles often blame the children they abuse as being the instigators of the abusive act. It's another facet of a pedophile's twisted mentality.
3) He came on to me, and he was so overwhelming, I just couldn't resist. It wasn't my fault. It's not my fault. Waaaaaaaaa!!!
4) Hell get probation and some counseling at mustard seed (place where pervs get counseling) so dont be decieved if one is in your neighborhoo
5) What a crock of lies! Yeah, he's an adult & he's trying to make it seem as though he was seduced by a minor... a mere child! Ha! Courts are dishing out such insane verdicts nowadays that this guy is likely to get probation & won't have to register as a sex criminal or pedophile b/c it may "ruin" his reputation... or maybe the judge should hire him!
6) I think I heard this defense before.. Oh yeah, I remember !! the woman who molested a four year old boy in daycare and said that the little boy came on to her !! this muthaf**** needs to be locked up in an institution for pedophiles so that they can molest each other !!
7) housing93 I agree: We're talking about: how much money can we get? Yes, there are the real pedophiles out there, but give me a break with this one! These are HARD ECONOMIC TIMES - there are some of those that will use what they have, to get what want , to get what they need, including children and that is a doggone shame. And for those pedophiles that are using this lame a$$ excuse I doggone you to the fire! Thank you!!!
8) Anacondaman: don't condemn me. I'm just say'in!
9) Hmm, it seems a certain segment of our community is predisposed to this type of behavior.I'm sure Yona will enroll in the special israel-nyc sex molestor program which will keep him out of jail and free to molest others.
10) The sick freak; blaming it on the kids.
11) The last perv who was recently convicted said the same words about his own daughter a few weeks back. Wasn't he a rabbi also, married and sleeping with his 17 yr old daughter. Now this rapist does the same thing.He'll probably be convicted as he should be.
12) this man is playing the system ,so they can think he's crazy and go away for a while and come out and do the same thing again and some child might not be lucky to tell the story. ain't no kid said this to him and if they did he was the grown up he should have reported it to the courts don't let him get away with this especially for lieing .the courts need to throw the book at him.he's a rabbi who is suppose to teach kids not molest them
13) how dare he.. I mean with unfiltered access to the internet, cell phones, the average kid having sex at 12-14 years of age... how dare he ever suggest that any kids would ever be smart enough to come on to an adult or someone else.. how dare he suggest that our kidsare that knowledgeable of the world and sex... Waaaaaaaa
The halachic adviser to Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services, which receives millions of dollars in state and federal money, told a Bergenfield, N.J., synagogue audience in 2007 that tax evasion is permissible under Jewish law as long as one doesn’t get caught, according to people in attendance.
The adviser, Rabbi Dovid Cohen, a Brooklyn-based, highly respected halachic expert who also serves as one of three rabbinic guides to Nefesh International, a network of Orthodox mental health professionals, is said to have made the comments about tax evasion during a Shabbat talk at Congregation Beth Abraham in Bergenfield in February 2007.
Now, more than two years later, the repercussions may be taking a toll on Rabbi Cohen and his reputation.
Several in attendance at the talk said that Rabbi Cohen gave an extended response to a question from the audience, asserting that tax evasion is permissible under Jewish law, as long as there is no realistic possibility of being caught, thus causing a chillul hashem, or desecration of God’s name.
The justification was based on the rabbi’s apparent belief that the reason the rabbis of the Talmud forbade stealing from a non-Jew was only out of fear of anti-Semitism.
Virtually every halachic source agrees that tax evasion, as well as theft from non-Jews, is categorically forbidden.
Rabbi Cohen allegedly told his audience that he was making his controversial remarks on Shabbat — he is also said to have asserted that, like the biblical Esau, non-Jews still hate Jews — knowing he was not being recorded, and that if subsequently questioned about his statement, he would deny it.
The rabbi told The Jewish Week on Monday that the statements attributed to him were "totally misunderstood" and that he "repudiated" them.
Based on letters obtained by The Jewish Week, it appears that at least seven people in attendance at the lecture wrote to or called the Rabbinical Council of America, the largest group of Orthodox rabbis, where Rabbi Cohen, though not a member of the RCA, served on its prestigious Va’ad HaPoskim, a group of halachic authorities. Some of the letter writers sought to have Rabbi Cohen removed from the panel; others simply attested to their having heard the rabbi make the remarks, which he denied to the RCA.
The RCA appointed a committee to look into the matter, and concluded that, based on Rabbi Cohen’s assurance that he opposes tax evasion and affirms treating non-Jews with full respect, the matter was closed.
But last week, without fanfare or notice, the RCA disbanded the Va’ad HaPoskim.
Some speculate that it may have come about in light of recent reports in the Jewish press regarding Ohel, with which Rabbi Cohen is affiliated. Others note that the RCA passed a resolution at its annual convention last month calling on congregations not to give honors to those who engage in unethical conduct.
"So how would it look if one of their halachic authorities is alleged to have approved of cheating on your taxes?" one source noted.
In response to a query from The Jewish Week, RCA Executive Director Rabbi Basil Herring explained that the Va’ad HaPoskim move was taken "to avoid confusion." He said that while individual members of that group will be consulted on halachic matters, as in the past, the RCA’s halachic decisions will continue to be made by its Va’ad Halacha, made up of RCA member rabbis.
But according to an RCA official, "the catalyst for the move was the Rabbi Cohen issue."
The official, like most others contacted for this report, asked not to be named out of concern about repercussions.
Asked in an e-mail whether it was appropriate for Rabbi Cohen to continue to serve as halachic adviser for the group, an Ohel spokesman did not respond.
Rabbi Cohen, an American-born graduate of Yeshiva Chaim Berlin, with a pulpit on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, has a longstanding reputation as one of the most respected and practical-minded authorities in the charedi community.
"He has taken courageous positions" on matters of domestic and sexual abuse, according to Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the outgoing executive director of the Orthodox Union. Though some halachic experts are reticent, as is Ohel itself, Rabbi Cohen has encouraged victims in some cases to go to civil authorities, including the police.
Rabbi Abraham Twerski, a psychiatrist and fellow halachic adviser to Nefesh International, said Rabbi Cohen is one of the most "highly respected" rabbis and "one of the most flexible halachic experts" who is unafraid to take lenient positions.
Both rabbis expressed surprise at the controversial statements about tax evasion and non-Jews attributed to Rabbi Cohen.
But another leading rabbi, who described himself as a longtime friend and admirer in many ways of Rabbi Cohen, said that though he had not heard of the tax evasion statement before, he found it "consistent" with the rabbi’s views on non-Jews.
"The irony is he’s a big liberal in the haredi world," the rabbi said.
Others recalled that Rabbi Cohen is no stranger to controversy, and that at a Nefesh International conference in 2000, he suggested that women in abusive marriages stay in the marriage for the sake of their children. After much heated discussion, he apologized the next morning.
Lo ta'amod al dam re'echa. We are forbidden to stand by and do nothing!
I keep hearing about cases in which survivors of childhood sexual abuse went to Rabbi Dovid Cohen for help. Each of these cases Rabbi Dovid Cohen stated that he didn't believe the survivors or that the cases were unsubstantiated.
Rabbi Dovid Cohen is the halachic advisor (advisor on Jewish law) at Ohel (a mental health center in Boro Park). I think it's also vitally important to note that there have been many complaints about Ohel over the years regarding the training and education of those who work in their programs for survivors and offenders. I've also been told that if a therapist at their agency suspects a child is being abused, they need to get the ok from Rabbi Cohen prior to making hot-line reports.
Many Victim Advocates like myself have been saying over and over again that our rabbis DO NOT have the education or training to collect forensic evidence nor know how to conduct victim sensitive interviews. Our rabbis NEED to be working as if they are all mandated reporters. Meaning if they SUSPECT a child is being abused and or neglected -- they pick up the phone and make a hot-line report.
We all NEED to start demanding that when a rabbi hear disclosures they IMMEDIATELY help those who have been "allegedly" victimized contact child abuse hot-lines and or make police reports. Let those who are trained conduct the investigations. The way cases have been handled in the past NEEDS TO STOP TODAY!
The goal is to protect our children from ANY POTENTIAL HARM!!!
Here's a list of some of the cases in which Rabbi Dovid Cohen said were unsubstantiated. If you know of more please post them:
NY Child Victim Act Amended to Include Public Institutions
Posted by Joe Saunders Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:53 AM EST
In a surprising move, NY state Rep. Margaret Markey has announced that she'll offer an amendment to her Child Victim Act bill to include public institutions as well.
The Child Victim Act is designed to give a voice to those who've suffered childhood sexual abuse but had no legal recourse due to the statute of limitations. The amendment will remove the sole objection the Catholic Church and other private institutions have had regarding the bill.
Now that the amendment has been offered, there should be no excuse whatsoever to oppose the legislation. Even NY Catholic Church officials were taken off guard by the announcement. A spokesperson for the NY State Catholic Conference told the NY Times, "This is not what we expected; this is something new.”
Addressing complaints from Roman Catholic officials and others, the state assemblywoman sponsoring a bill to temporarily lift the statute of limitations on lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children said on Wednesday that she would amend her proposal to apply to public as well as private entities.
The change would give people who say they were abused in public schools, for example, the same opportunities to sue as those claiming abuse in religious or private schools.
The assemblywoman, Margaret M. Markey, a Queens Democrat, said fellow lawmakers supporting the bill, known as the Child Victim Act, had told her that their constituents’ most persistent reservations about it were based “on the idea that this was somehow unfair.”
“I think the vigorous debate we’ve had this year has made this a better bill,” she said in a statement.
The move seemed to surprise both advocates and opponents of the legislation, which has been the focus of a lobbying battle for months pitting advocates for protection against sex abuse of children, and their lawyers, against a coalition of religious organizations facing huge potential civil liabilities and some civil rights lawyers chary of compromising statutes of limitations.
Spokesmen for the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, which have sent priests, youth groups and official delegates to Albany repeatedly in recent months to argue against Ms. Markey’s bill, said they had not seen the proposed amendment nor had an inkling it was coming.
Dennis Poust, a spokesman for the New York State Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm for the state’s Catholic prelates, echoed reaction from many on both sides, saying, “This is not what we expected; this is something new.”
Ms. Markey has championed the legislation for the past three sessions, but this is the first time it has stood a chance of passing.
While the bill itself did not create the inequity, it gave opponents a strong argument because it did not address a built-in protection that public agencies enjoy. The protection, which many states provide under the British common law tradition of “crown immunity,” limits the liability of public agencies by requiring anyone alleging harm to file notice of claim within 90 days.
Thus, a child abused by a teacher in a public school would have 90 days after turning 18 to file a claim. By contrast, under current law, a victim of abuse at a private or religious school can file a civil claim within five years after turning 18.
The Child Victim Act would extend that time limit to 10 years. More importantly, it would suspend the statute of limitations altogether for one year. A man of 50 who claimed he was sexually abused at age 10, for instance, would be able to file a civil suit during the one-year window.
But until Ms. Markey recast her bill on Wednesday, it did not apply to public institutions.
A competing bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez of Brooklyn and supported by Catholic officials, includes both the longer time limit for filing suit (to age 28) and a provision giving the same rights to victims in public settings, abolishing the 90-day rule where sex abuse is alleged. But it omits the one-year window for both classes of victims.
Advocates for sex abuse victims applauded the change in Ms. Markey’s bill. Although he had not seen the new language, Bob Kristan, spokesman for the New York Coalition to Protect Children, said the revision “sounds like it will help finding more predators, provide justice for more victims, and protect more children — and so we support it.”
Ron Davis, a spokesman for the United Federation of Teachers, which represents teachers in New York City schools, said the union “supports any reasonable measures that seek to protect children, so we are not opposed to this modification.”
Fresh opposition to the bill, however, may yet emerge. On Wednesday, few municipal officials had heard of the new version. But Robert N. Lowry, deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, which represents about 700 superintendents, said that his group would now oppose the bill. The superintendents had previously taken no position on it.
“Statutes of limitations exist for a reason,” Mr. Lowry said. “We would have a concern about litigation arising that would be hard to respond to because witnesses could have disappeared or even died in years past.”
Religious institutions opposing the Child Victim Act, which is sponsored in the Senate by Thomas K. Duane of Manhattan, have argued that they would be bankrupted by a deluge of new lawsuits, and that the bill is inherently discriminatory.
When he introduced his competing measure, Assemblyman Lopez said he was motivated partly by a sense of its arbitrary unfairness — “where you can only get justice if you are abused in this building, but if you got hurt across the street, too bad.”
Mr. Lopez said on Wednesday that although he had not seen the revised version of the Markey bill, he was pleased it now included equity for sex abuse victims in public institutions.
But he will not drop his own bill, he said. “I’m still opposed to any legislation that lets you sue somebody for something that happened 40 years ago,” he said. “That’s crazy.”
David W. Chen and Javier C. Hernandez contributed reporting.
Sex abuse victims lobby in Albany for limitations bill
BY JAMES T. MADORE |james.madore@newsday.com
June 2, 2009
ALBANY - Beth McCabe is a smiling 12-year-old with wavy dark hair in the photograph on display in the Legislative Office Building.
The former Lindenhurst resident is one of 18 adults who contributed childhood snaps to an exhibit aimed at winning support for temporarily lifting the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse cases. Eight of the photos are of people who grew up on Long Island.
McCabe, now 60, said a visiting Catholic priest abused her between 1960 and 1963. "I'm here as proof that these things happen," she said. "And I support this bill because it provides a window where victims can come forward to expose predators who continue to abuse."
She and other participants in the photo exhibit spent much of Tuesday lobbying on behalf of the bill from Assemb. Margaret M. Markey (D-Maspeth).
The measure seeks to give abuse victims a one-year window to file suit in civil court regardless of how long ago the assault occurred. It also adds several years onto the current statute of limitations, which is five years after an accuser turns 18.
The bill previously was passed by the Assembly, only to die in the then-Republican-controlled State Senate.
A rival bill from Assemb. Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn) also extends the statute of limitations but doesn't provide for the one-year window on old cases.
The Diocese of Rockville Centre and others oppose the Markey bill, saying it unfairly targets the Catholic Church by exempting public schools and other local governments. Church officials have raised the specter of bankruptcy if the bill becomes law. They back the Lopez measure. ==================================================================
News from Assemblywoman Margaret M. Markey 30th Assembly District Assemblywoman Markey Urges Support for “Child Victims Act of New York” March 20, 2008
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey was featured speaker at the 2008 Legislative Breakfast of the New York State Coalition against Sexual Assault in Albany on March 19, 2008.
Speaking on a program with the coalition’s executive director, Jane McEwen, and board member Varrone Munger, Assemblywoman Markey told the audience that research shows that one in five children in America are sexually abused.
She described how her Assembly bill (A.4560-B) will provide greater justice for victims of childhood sexual abuse and help identify and stop sexual predators from continuing their abuse. With passage of her Assembly bill assured in 2008, she told Coalition members that to ensure that this legislation becomes law they need to reach out to their State Senators to urge that they support the companion bill in the Senate (S.4614-A).
Following are remarks by Assemblywoman Markey at the event:
Thank you for this opportunity to speak about my legislation. As all of you here this morning know sex crimes are among the most heinous and deeply disturbing in our society. This is particularly true when they are committed against children. At present, New York State law enables sexual predators to avoid the consequences of their crimes by unreasonably shielding them from criminal prosecution and civil action.
Our present law also enables abusers to continue their predatory actions and assault new victims. We in the Legislature recognized how important it is for victims of sexual assault to get justice for the heinous crimes committed against them.
My bill – A.4560B, the Child Victims Act of New York – will provide the opportunity for victims who were shut off from justice to receive their day in court. And – equally important – it will help identify and expose predators who will otherwise roam freely to repeat their abuse again and again.
The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that about one in five American children are sexually abused before age 18. But only about 10 percent of these secretive crimes are ever reported. Because of the young age of those who are abused, and the position of authority most abusers have over their victims, the window of time to bring charges, under present law, is far too restrictive.
My bill extends the statute of limitations for bringing charges in child sex abuse cases – in cases where the victim does not report it to law enforcement – from age 18 to age 23. It also calls for a similar extension in the civil statute of limitations. These changes would give a child victim until at least the age of 28 to seek prosecution or civil redress.
One other important provision of my bill – just like the ones that became law in California and Delaware – is creation of a one-year “window” in the civil statute of limitations provisions. This provides one-year from the effective date of the law where victims of any age would be able to seek damages for past instances of child sexual abuse. This important provision will enable many victims who are now adults to get the justice they have previously been denied under the current restrictive law.
My legislation has been adopted by the Assembly three times and will be voted on again shortly.
Senator Stephen M. Saland is sponsor of the companion bill in the State Senate, 4614-A. Last year, his bill did not even come out of the Senate Codes Committee. To help ensure it is enacted in this session, we need the help of everybody in this room. We need you to reach out to your local Senator and urge him or her to support Senator Saland’s bill.
A government-funded video made by one of New York’s largest Orthodox social service agencies — touted as its guide for dealing with child sexual abuse — makes no mention of abuse as a crime to be reported to police.
Critics say the video raises questions about Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services, which is heavily supported by taxpayers and deeply involved in the Brooklyn district attorney’s efforts surrounding child sexual abuse in ultra-traditional Orthodox Jewish communities. Some Orthodox leaders, those critics say, including those at Ohel, have tried wrongly to handle sexual abuse within the community, excluding secular law enforcement authorities — leading to abuse being covered up and cases of pedophiles remaining free to molest more children.
“The only way to begin dealing with this issue is to begin reporting any incidents of sexual abuse directly to the authorities,” said Lonnie Soury, spokesman for Survivors for Justice, a group of Orthodox sexual abuse survivors. “Any organization that advocates anything but that is doing so at the expense of children’s health.”
The Ohel DVD calls the phenomenon of child sexual abuse in the Jewish community a shande, meaning a scandal or shame, and urges victims and their families to seek counseling. It warns schools that they are responsible “to do everything, by all means,” about the abuse. And it instructs parents to “do whatever you can to make sure that your child is never put into that position again.”
“What we want to do is evoke action,” declares Ohel CEO David Mandel at the video’s conclusion.
But the word “police” is not spoken once during the 10-minute video, titled “Ignorance Is Not Bliss.” Nor is sexual abuse ever described as a criminal act. None of the speakers suggests calling 911, city or state child welfare services, or any other secular authority. The DVD, produced in 2004 and updated in 2007, according to its copyright notice, is freely distributed as a resource for survivors, parents, educators and community leaders.
The Brooklyn-based Ohel, a leading social services agency serving the Jewish community, defends the video.
“This specific video, ‘Ignorance Is Not Bliss,’ which was produced some eight years ago, is not about the logistics of how to report, or who to report to,” said Ohel spokesman Derek Saker, who responded to questions from the Forward in an e-mail. “Rather it was developed as an educational and informational tool for the community, to raise awareness of such shocking abuse, communicate an understanding of what such abuse is, how it affects so many, and its consequences on victims and families.”
Mandel refers regularly to the DVD as a resource for people who want to know what to do about child sexual abuse; most recently, in a full-page advertisement published May 13 in The Jewish Week, the organization listed watching the video as a “practical suggestion” for community members who want to take action against abuse.
The video begins with testimony from survivors of child sexual abuse and the mothers of two victims, describing the devastating impact of the abuse. The presentation then segues into various community leaders explaining why it is important not to shame sexual abuse survivors but to bring their stories out into the light and stop sexual predators.
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, a highly respected rosh yeshiva at the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, says in the video, “For victims, I would say that it is their duty… and a mitzvah, to go and reveal their stories.”
But the video never specifies to whom the victims should reveal their stories, or what responsibility adults have to report suspected abuse to law enforcement authorities.
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was molested, whose story is held up as an example, says that she told community members about the molestation because “I was not going to let this man get away with it.”
“I didn’t treat it like it’s a secret, because the molesters, this is what they thrive on,” she says. “They think everyone should just keep it a secret.”
The woman is not identified, and she’s filmed behind a screen to hide her face. She makes no mention of calling police, or sending the molester to prison — the only surefire way to stop a pedophile from victimizing more children.
Aaron Twerski, a professor at Brooklyn Law School and a national expert on tort law, says in the video, “Every case that exists is a tragedy, and the fact that one molester can affect so many people makes this a problem that we just can’t look away from.”
Twerski does not suggest any legal remedies to the problem.
Contacted by the Forward, Twerski said that reporting abuse to police is a complex issue that could not be fully raised in the 10-minute video.
“The focus of that video was to alert the community to the problem,” Twerski said. “It’s a complex question of who has to report, and who is a mandated reporter. I’m not sure we could do it in that video.”
While the legal intricacies around mandated reporting may indeed be complex, the moral obligation of ordinary citizens is clear, Soury said: Report suspected child sexual abuse to authorities.
“It’s like someone breaking into your house and hurting you — should that be handled in the community?” Soury said. “No, you call 911 when there’s a crime.”
Soury said that efforts to deal with pedophiles within the religious community have failed because rabbis, principals and other community leaders are not equipped to investigate, prosecute and punish serious crimes. “The community cannot handle it. The community is not law enforcement,” Soury said. “These are terrible crimes against children.”
This is not the first time a video has raised questions about Ohel’s commitment to reporting abuse. Mandel was videotaped speaking at a February 2008 workshop in Baltimore about sexual abuse, during which he seemed to suggest ways to avoid reporting incidents of sexual abuse.
In a response to a question about a father molesting his child, Mandel said, “One of the ways we advise the family to handle this is — for the protection of the family and so that the case does not have to become reportable to authorities, which is a whole separate conversation — we strongly advise and sometimes make a statement that the father needs to leave the house, period.”
A video of his remarks was posted on YouTube by The Awareness Center, a Baltimore-based Jewish group fighting against child sexual abuse. At the end of Mandel’s remarks, an unidentified person in the audience shouts out, “What about calling Child Protection [a state agency]?” Mandel ignores the question.
Ohel’s response to child sexual abuse is not just an issue for the Orthodox community; it’s also a matter of taxpayer concern. Ohel runs a large and successful foster care program (ranked No. 1 in New York in 2006), and subsists mainly on government funding. In 2006, the most recent year for which tax documents are publicly available, Ohel received $38 million in taxpayer money, 89% of its total revenue.
The “Ignorance Is Not Bliss” video was produced with a grant from the New York State Office of Mental Health. Spokeswoman Jill Daniels said the amount of monitoring by her agency varies when it funds projects such as Ohel’s, and that she didn’t know how involved the agency had been in the video’s production. Daniels did say her agency’s policy is that anyone who suspects child abuse of any kind should report it to authorities.
Earlier this year, Ohel was selected by the Brooklyn district attorney’s office as a partner in its Kol Tzedek hot line, which is aimed at encouraging Orthodox Jewish victims to report abuse to authorities. Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office, said he hadn’t seen the “Ignorance Is Not Bliss” video but said that District Attorney Charles Hynes has a good working relationship with Ohel.
“We encourage anyone with knowledge of a crime to call the police. That’s all I’ll say about that,” Schmetterer said.
One unusual aspect of Ohel’s video is that it features an interview with a confessed child molester who speaks behind a screen to shield his identity. The pedophile says that his tactic for molesting children was to ask them how much they weighed, then pick them up to “test” their weight as an excuse to fondle them.
“I’m only one person, but look at all the people I messed up,” the molester says.
The Forward asked Ohel’s Saker what happened to this pedophile and whether his abuse of numerous children in the Orthodox community was ever reported to police. Saker did not respond to the question.
It is unfortunate that it has come to this. It is a big darn shame it has come to this. It is very hurtful that it has come to this. But yet, IT HAS COME TO THIS. It has come at the price of a GREAT CHILUL HASHEM. It has come to Hashem having to allow his holy name to be DESECRATED so that his CHILDREN remain SAFE. Shame on all those responsible for enabling and permitting Hashem's name to be desecrated!
When you save children you save the future. You save the future you save generations. You save generations you save lives. You save lives you have saved the world!!!!!!!
YESHIVA OF BROOKLYN UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE COVERUP
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BUTCHER OF BROOKLYN BOY DEEMED FIT FOR TRIAL
Aug. 4: Levi Aron, center is joined by his attorney, Jennifer McCann, as he is arraigned in Brooklyn criminal court.
Cain and Abel
SHOMRIM, NYPD, RABBIS - HOW DO THEY ALL TIE IN TOGETHER?
The Jewish Week (Hella Winston) Reports
Rabbi During The Leiby Kletzky Search: Call Rabbis, Not Police, To Report Child Abuse
Speaking Tuesday night in Flatbush in the Bostoner beit midrash at the Irgun Shiurei Torah conference as the search for Leiby Kletzky was in full frantic swing, the vice-president of Agudath Israel of America's Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah, Supreme Council of Rabbinic Sages, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky says child sexual abuse must be reported to rabbis, not police. (Failed Messiah reports)
Shocking new details further prove Levi Aron is a premeditated murderer who knew right from wrong
A medical examiner has determined the cause of death of Leiby Kletzky, announcing Wednesday that the 8-year-old was first drugged and later smothered. According to officials, Kletzky died from a combination of drugs including cyclobenzaprine (muscle relaxant), quetiapine (antipsychotic), hydrocodone (pain medication), and acetaminophen (Tylenol) followed by smothering.
Amateur sleuth Yaakov German helps cops catch Levi Aron and solve murder of Leiby Kletzky
An amateur sleuth armed with determination and intuition helped cops crack the murder of Leiby Kletzky by tracking his path to doom. (click picture)
Leiby Kletzky died fighting for life: Confessed killer Levi Aron has marks indicating a 'struggle'
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Aron had scratches on his arms, wrists and elsewhere -- a sign "there was some kind of struggle." There also were marks on the boy's remains that could have been caused by restraints, the commissioner added.
The boy butcher doing the perp walk
Levi Aron (right), charged with the murder of Leiby Kletzky is taken from the 67th Precinct by authorities on Wednesday night.
Meet Levi Aron - The Monster Who Savagley Murdered Leiby Kletzky A'H
Aron, who is believed to be an orthodox Jew, was originally from Brooklyn but spent some time in Memphis before moving back to the borough two years ago. He was employed at a Brooklyn maintenance supply company and lived in a house with his parents and uncle.
Tragic Ending: Dismembered remains of missing NYC boy Leiby Kletzky found - Suspect now in custody
The body of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky was found dead June 13, 2011 after going missing earlier in the week
Man in gold colored sedan being sought for questioning
Leibby Kletzky, 8, was last seen at Yeshiva Boyan school in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS
Are you a victim? Did Yeshivah College or Adass Yisroel girls’ school hush you up back then?
Victorian Police are appealing to anyone who may have information or indeed may have been victims of sexual abuse during the period between 1989 and 1993. They have also launched an investigation into sexual abuse at the Adass Yisroel girls’ school n Elsternwick whose principal Malka Leifer fled to Israel in 2008. David Kramer went back to the US where he was arrested and is currently serving a prison sentence for sexual assaults on children. Acting Detective Sergeant Scott Dywer has asked anyone with information to contact him at the Moorabin Sexual Offences Unit on 03 9556 6128
Manny Waks as a schoolboy in 1988 (click to watch video)
Based on reliable information I have, it is anticipated that arrest(s) will be conducted very soon. This is certainly a move I have been anticipating for many years and will welcome once it occurs. There are two fundamental reasons why I have decided to share my information publicly. Firstly, this is about justice and closure – both for myself and other victims. I intend to hold both the perpetrators and Yeshivah Centre to account, the latter for persuading victims to remain silent and not taking appropriate action subsequent to the crimes occurring. The most important people in this tragedy are the many victims that have been abused and betrayed by the perpetrators and Yeshivah Centre many times over. The victims need and deserve justice and closure. Further, it is also my hope that as I take a public stand on this matter, it may embolden other victims to lodge a complaint with the police. As I hold central leadership positions within the Jewish community, it is my hope that I may also help change the stigma associated with victims of such crimes and thereby further embolden other victims to seek the justice that they rightly deserve. I have been informed that there are many, many additional victims out there, some of whom I personally know. Some of these victims apparently have not shared their experiences even with their wives/families. While the perpetrators’ responsibilities are obvious, the negligence of Yeshivah Centre must be seriously addressed, both in terms of seeking justice for what did occur, and in terms of preventing such cases from reoccurring. Whether or not there was no mandatory reporting at the time of the crimes in question is irrelevant – despite recent statements by the Yeshivah Centre in trying to defend the indefensible.
Manny Waks is a courageous, heroic human-being!
Manny Waks, a Canberra-based vice-president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, was one of the children sexually assaulted at Melbourne’s Yeshiva College between 1989 and 1993. He tells J-Wire of his experience….(click picture)
Yeshivah College did not report complaints to police. David Kramer fled Australia in the 1990s
Rabbi Ze'ev Smason, who alerted police in Missouri after the boy's family told him something inappropriate had occurred, said: ''The Kramer case provides a great opportunity to trace the failure of segments of the Jewish community to their source. ''If only the problem had been addressed in Australia … the victim in St Louis and countless others would have been spared suffering,'' he wrote in 2008. Speaking from the US last night, Rabbi Smason said individuals had a religious, ethical and moral obligation to ensure a person who committed a crime could not do so again. ''If there were other victims, any religious authorities who did not step forward enabled him [Kramer] to commit such crimes,'' he said. ''To a degree, an individual who could prevent evil from happening is responsible when it occurs - that's a pretty heavy spiritual burden to carry.'' Kramer pleaded guilty to one count of sodomy of a child under 14 and one count of sexual misconduct. The Age understands Victoria Police hopes to extradite him when he is released, with the earliest parole date April next year.
Bye Bye Mass Murderer~..~
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”
“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.”
Why would Chaim Berlin's Rosh Hayeshiva disobey a Tzadik's command to appear before him in a din Torah?
Ohel apparently acting in violation of mandatory reporting laws (Click for The Jewish Week report)
“They have been the point men for the community [on this issue] and they have accepted the approach of the community, which is never to go to the police. They endlessly [hide] behind technicalities” ~~~ Rabbi Yosef Blau
All's Not Swell
Crooked rabbi gets four years for hedge-fund exortion
Meat Carving station at the Agudah convention
Click for video of pigs
Cheryl Burke reveals child molestation, physical abuse by former boyfriends
The Dancing with the Stars professional dancer was repeatedly molested by a family friend who was sent to jail for nearly 20 years after she testified against him in court, People reported Wednesday. "I'm telling my story," Burke told People. "They're not secrets. There's no shame."
Convicted Child Molester Gets 675 Years in Prison
Michael Benjamin Burch, 66, was convicted on Dec. 21 of three counts each of forcible rape, oral copulation of a person under 14 and lewd act upon a child.
Man Accused of Molesting 3 Girls at Wife's Day Care Center
Ruben Avalos was arrested on Thursday as he was picking up kids after school and taking them to the Carlos Family Child Care Center in the 16500 block of Tarano Lane. Avalos was booked for investigation of sex with a child, forced oral copulation and lewd acts upon a child.
Vatican and Irish church cover-up of worst pedophile priest
The just released chapter in the Murphy Commission report on abuse in the Dublin archdiocese on abuser priest Tony Walsh reveals in horrific detail how the Vatican covered up for the man the Murphy Commission described as the worst abuser of all. It also described how the Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Ryan, wrote a strong letter of approval for Byrne despite knowing he was a dreadful pedophile.
House of Horrors!
This is house of Rabbi Gershom Kranczer, who has been accused of molesting his daughters aged 20,19,18, and 8. The family's pattern of abuse came to light after one of the women, who is now 20, broke down and told a co-worker at a yeshiva that the rabbi molested her for 15 years.
Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who wrought miracles for our fathers in days of old, at this season.
Oprah Winfrey Breaks the Silence on Men Who Are Sexually Abused
The first show, airing November 5th, will introduce an audience of 200 men, each holding a photo of himself at the age when he was first abused. Tyler Perry and a psychologist specializing in male sexual abuse survivors will speak to the crowd. On the second show, airing November 12th, the men in the audience will be joined by their significant others to discuss how the abuse has affected their relationships.
Shana Tova!
“You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.”
Child Rapist B.L Gets "Stricter" Kosher meals
Even though Rikers Island has kosher food for its Jewish prisoners, a Satmar rabbi (Putz Drek "Rabbi" David Niederman enables molestation) gets "special food brought straight to his Rikers Island cell." Baruch Leibovits complained that the food "hadn't had proper rabbinical supervision," but the Post notes his "adherence to holy law apparently didn't preclude repeatedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old classmate of his son."
Teacher molested kids for 20 years, while community turned blind eye
For almost 20 years, one man allegedly sexually abused dozens of children on Moshav Kommemiyut, an ultra-Orthodox community in the northern Negev. Yet no one ever complained - either to the police or to the welfare authorities. The police have since opened an investigation into the abuses, but the suspect is in the U.S. and refuses to return. Meanwhile, some say community leaders knew of the crimes but did nothing to stop them. At least one of the victims is suspected of having sexually abused younger children in turn. The main suspect, Shimshon Walzer, began his alleged career as an abuser 19 years ago, while serving as a teacher at a religious elementary school. Two years later, rumors of his abusive conduct led to him being fired as a teacher. Yet for some reason, he was allowed to retain an office at the school. Over the ensuing years, his conduct became ever more abusive, police say, and an entire generation of children became his sex slaves. According to the testimony they have collected, he abused his victims frequently and in broad daylight, in barns and chicken coops, in fields and even at the mikveh (ritual bath ).
Kevin Ricks accused of being a serial sexual predator
They didn’t know about his apparent library of homemade pornographic videos and explicit photographs that officials say capture his tequila-soaked sex acts with teenage boys he had handpicked. They didn’t know about the makeshift shrine boxes that police say contain mementos of the episodes, including sex toys, soiled tissues and hair trimmings. Even some of the possible victims didn’t know they were victims. A four-month Washington Post investigation of Ricks’ career as a teacher, tutor, foreign exchange host and camp counselor has revealed what appears to be a pattern of abuse that dates to at least 1978 and has left a trail of victims spanning the globe. But despite the abuse, Ricks moved from one teaching job to the next over nearly 30 years, navigating the nation’s public and private school systems undetected, evading traps designed to catch him. He spent the 1982-83 school year in Norfolk, teaching at Hampton Roads Academy. In some cases, school officials and foreign exchange companies knew of or suspected Ricks’ inappropriate behavior and simply let him go, leaving the next employer with no idea what was coming.
More victims coming forward with accounts of indecent sexual assault and battery
Two years ago, Michael Brecher came to prosecutors in Boston with a disturbing allegation: In the 1970s, he said, he had been molested by a rabbi who was teaching sixth grade at one of the region’s most prestigious Jewish day schools, the Maimonides School. One of Brecher’s classmates came forward at the same time. And last year, after reading news accounts of indecent sexual assault and battery charges filed against Stanley Z. Levitt, a third person said that he, too, was abused by Levitt. Now, court records show that Levitt might have tried to entice two more students into having intimate contact with him while they took showers in his Brighton home. One of those former students has told Boston police that Levitt took him and other students on a field trip to Montreal where Levitt directed the students in a ritual purification bath, or mikvah, while all of them were naked, an inappropriate practice, according to an official at a prominent Jewish theological seminary. Levitt has also faced allegations in Philadelphia, where he lived after leaving Maimonides.
US district attorney blasts Swiss ruling that set Roman Polanski free
Freedom, for Mr. Polanski, still comes with a specific list of destinations. He is expected to return to France, where he holds citizenship. He fled there more than 30 years ago after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful intercourse after being charged in Los Angeles with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.
Witness Tampering & Coverup In Fakewood
Beis Medrash Govoha implicated in preventing police from following up sexual abuser (The Jewish Star reports. Click Photo)
Russian pianist faces Thai paedophile rape charge
Award-winning Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev has been arrested at a Thai beach resort, accused of raping a boy, police said on Wednesday. Pletnev, 53, an acclaimed pianist and conductor of the Russian National Orchestra, was arrested in Pattaya charged with raping a 14-year-old Thai boy and appearing in compromising photographs with several others.
Founders of Rape Crisis Center remember friend who helped create hot line and justice for victims
Sandy Mitzel was a petite but tough woman who knew how to get things done. "She was fearless," said her friend, Helen Zucker. "She took everything personally. Anything she believed in, she embraced and ran with."
Hayes ordered Streicher, an American whose family lives in Israel, behind bars for at least a year.
Michoel Streicher, whose celebrity in religious circles peaked in the early 1990s, was convicted by a Manhattan jury of grand larceny in April for stealing money from Judy Burstein of Washington Heights in 2005. Burstein gave him the cash to buy a holy scroll for her dying father.
Ex-Mass. rabbi charged again in child abuse
The Suffolk County district attorney says a rabbi who once taught at a Boston-area school faces another child assault charge. Authorities said Sunday that Stanley Z. Levitt was charged with indecent assault and battery on a child. The 64-year-old Levitt is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court. Levitt was arraigned last year on four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. Prosecutors say he assaulted two boys about 11 years old who attended the Maimonides School in Brookline where he taught between 1974 and 1977. Prosecutors say the third person approached them after reading media accounts. Authorities say he also was a sixth grader at the school that employed Levitt in the mid-1970s.
Al Gore Accused of Sexual Abuse!
Accuser filed an official complaint on Jan. 8, 2009, stating that Al sexually assaulted her in his hotel room by repeatedly trying to have sex with her. "He pleaded, groped me, grabbed me, engulfed me in embrace, tongue kissed me, massaged me, grabbed my breasts," the woman says in the detailed complaint.
Restaurant Owner Arrested For Sex Abuse Of 16-Year-Old Girl
Memet Arslan, 32, of Bellmore is accused of locking the girl inside his Mediterranean Kebab Restaurant on June 17, grabbing and forcibly touching her, Nassau County Police said.
Shmuley and the Pope make nice
Victim of sexual assault: I’m sorry I gave you all those years. I’m sorry you gave me all those tears I’m sorry that i believed all your lies. I’m sorry but I must say goodbye.
If you are a victim of Michael Sabo or know someone who is call 911
The ongoing investigation by the NYPD and the Brooklyn district attorney found scores of child pornography photographs - including S&M shots with tied-up kids - on Sabo's home computer, said one law enforcement source. Many of the pictures found with the December 2009 search warrant showed adults engaged in sex with the kids - including Sabo, the source said.
Helen Thomas told rabbilive.com that Israel should "get the hell out of Palestine."
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~~~ Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes ~~~
Sex abusers at Disney: Men sent to prison for lewd acts on boys
Jerry Lester Wiley, left, of Lady Lake and Miles Esterson of London pleaded no contest to lewd and lascivious conduct. They were sentenced to prison after they were found guilty of molesting three young brothers whom they had taken to Walt Disney World. (Lake County Sheriff's Office / June 3, 2010)
For 5th Year, Child Sex Abuse Bill Dies in Legislature
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, a Queens Democrat who wrote the legislation and has been its chief advocate, said that in one sense the vote on Wednesday represented progress. “Our bill has never even come to a vote before in the Senate,” she said. “So we feel this was an important step.” Since it was first introduced in the 2006-7 session, the Child Victims Act has been fervently opposed by the Catholic Church and several Orthodox Jewish groups, which saw potentially devastating financial implications in opening an opportunity for victims, regardless of age, to bring lawsuits for sexual abuse suffered in childhood. Last year, in an attempt to blunt complaints from the religious groups that they were being singled out, the bill was amended to make public institutions like schools equally liable.
Former B'nai Brith leader pleads guilty to child porn charges
The former regional director of B’nai Brith in Quebec, Bill Surkis, has pleaded guilty on two counts relating to the possession of child pornography. Surkis (R) is seen here leaving Montreal's Palais du Justice on Friday, May 29, 2009 with lawyer Steven Slimovitch. (Photo Credit: Dave Sidaway, Gazette file)
Covering up a shocking crime
While US and Israeli Charedi communities have been rocked by sex abuse, are we treating the issue seriously enough?
Justice for Child Abuse Victims
We urge the New York State Legislature to rise above intense lobbying by the New York State Catholic Conference and Orthodox Jewish officials and pass the overdue Child Victims Act. Like a similar measure enacted in 2003 by California, it would create a one-time, one-year suspension of the statute of limitations for bringing civil lawsuits over the sexual abuse of children. Once that window closes, people alleging abuse would have until age 28 to bring a claim. Current law sets the limit at 23 in most circumstances.
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime
An orthodox Jewish man charged with molesting a boy at a Brooklyn synagogue dropped a bombshell on cops: He claimed he was abused years ago by a rabbi just sent to prison for preying on youngsters. Click on perv to read more
Elior Chen accomplices convicted
The defendants in the trial were David Kugman, Avraham Maksalchi, Ro’i Tzoref and Shimon Gabai.
Shlomo Mandel's newest 4th grade Rebbe at YOB
Emphasizing a hands-on approach
Supporters of Lebovits wait for the verdict outside the Kings County criminal court
the trial took a shocking turn when Gregory asked Ashkenazi if he knew a particular Brooklyn boy. Ashkenazi, who speaks fractured English, sat uncomfortably on the witness stand and acknowledged that he did know the boy. “Isn’t it true,” the prosecutor continued, that Ashkenazi had once touched his knee to the boy’s private parts? Ashkenazi, flustered, denied that that was true. Then, Gregory named another boy and asked the witness if, “back in 1998, on multiple occasions, [he] sexually molested him when he was 13 years old?” Ashkenazi protested to the assistant district attorney, “I am a holy person!”
"Rabbi" Shloime Mandel practicing bedikas chometz
after intensly digging through the volume of dirt he was thankful he did not get buried alive!
Rabbinic Leaders Silent On Child Sexual Abuse
Every attempt I made to enlist the aid of rabbinic leadership was met with reactions ranging from an unwillingness to deal with the problem, to indifference, to total denial of the existence of a problem — which I have since learned was in all cases completely disingenuous. The rabbis in fact knew about this problem all along and they acted to protect the pedophiles and intimidate the victims and their families, all the while maintaining a public silence. (by Ben Hirsch Special To The Jewish Week)
“To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.”
Rabbi Baruch Lebovits is facing a long prison term after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy. "Thank God, justice is served," the victim's father said in the packed courtroom as Lebovits family members wiped tears from their eyes. "This makes a statement to the Jewish community," said Beth Kaplan of the group Sacred Lives, one of several advocates who sat through the week-long trial. "There is denial. The majority of the Orthodox community doesn't believe this can happen. Here we see it can happen."
Rabbi Yaakov Weiss holds his prayer books Monday after being sentenced to 60 days in Jail.
Rabbi Yaakov Weiss, 30, founder of the Chabad of Colonie and the Chabad Hebrew School, was handcuffed and led out by sheriff’s deputies to start his sentence. “You have utterly failed to accept responsibility for your actions,” County Judge Stephen Herrick told Weiss, whose family and supporters sat in the courtroom. “You are not the victim here. The boys were the victims.”
Rabbi Baruch Lebovits found guilty on eight counts of sexual abuse; hauled away in handcuffs.
BROOKLYN -- A jury today convicted an orthodox rabbi of repeatedly molesting a 16-year-old classmate of his son.
The panel of 10 women and two men deliberated less than half a day before finding the rabbi, Baruch Lebovits, 58, guilty of eight counts of sexual abuse.
Lebovits was acquitted on two additional counts.
The victim, now 22, alleges Lebovits lured him into his car by offering to let him drive, then proceeded to unzip his fly and perform oral sex on him.
The incident occurred on eight separate occasions in 2004 and 2005, according to Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes
The Yeshiva student said he knew Lebovits as a rabbi and prominent business man in the Borough Park community, where they both lived.
Lebovits is slated to be sentenced March 29.
He faces up to a 32-year prison term.
You can kiss convicted child molester, Boruch Mordechai Lebovits, goodbye.
Lebovits was convicted on eight counts of Criminal Sexual Act in the Third Degree. When he is sentenced on March 29, he will face up to four years in prison on each count. The victim knew Lebovits as a rabbi and prominent businessman in the Borough Park community, where they both lived. Lebovits is also charged in two other cases of sexual assaults on minors. Those cases are pending. The case was prosecuted by Miss Gregory, First Deputy Bureau Chief in the Sex Crimes Bureau. Rhonnie Jaus is Chief of the Sex Crimes Bureau.
A face not even a mother can love!
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” ~~~Steven Weinberg ~~~
No matter how gloomy things seem, everything can turn around.
Your tears are very precious to God.
grand jury charges Dr. Earl Bradley of Lewes with 471 counts of sexual crimes against 103 children.
After years of suspicions among parents and questions about his strange behavior from colleagues, Bradley was arrested after a 2-year-old girl told her mother that the doctor hurt her in December when he took her to a basement room of his office after an exam. The case has shocked the close-knit coastal community of Lewes and the central Delaware town of Milford, where Bradley closed an office in 2005 after police investigated him. Biden and Gov. Jack Markell have ordered reviews to determine whether doctors, hospitals, state agencies or law enforcement authorities failed to comply with a state law that requires all such entities to report to the medical licensing board in writing within 30 days if they believe a doctor is or "may be" guilty of unprofessional conduct. Biden said Monday that those investigations are aimed at determining "how this physician could lurk in our midst for as long as he did."
'Trust, but check,' our sages tell us.
Our first and foremost concern must always be for the victim. Societies today may be so focused on securing the rights and privileges of the accused that they neglect the suffering of those who are harmed in the first place. More than one community, having detected a sexual predator in its midst, has simply transferred the criminal to another, unsuspecting community so as to avoid a legal battle and all the negative publicity that comes along with it. Meanwhile, the victims are denied their right to justice and the fox is now transferred to a new hen-house, where he may continue his deviant behavior on new victims.
Rabbi Milton Balkany, Rubashkin Brother-In-Law, in a heap of trouble
The rabbi allegedly tried to make a deal which would entail him keeping the information mum, and the hedge fund making $2 million donations to two Brooklyn schools, the Bais Yaakov school (turns out Balkany is the dean) and another school.
"Brooklyn Bundler" is at it again.
Rabbi Milton Balkany, 63, was charged with extortion, blackmail and making false statements as part of an elaborate scheme to shake down the hedge fund, prosecutors charged. They say Balkany told the hedge fund the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI were trying to get a jailbird he knew to give up information about illegal insider trades made by the financial firm. There were no insider trades. Balkany made up the story to trick fund managers into giving millions to the Bais Yaakov School in Borough Park, where he is the dean, and another school, Torah Vodaath, prosecutors said. Balkany said prosecutors are telling tales.
NY Coalition to Protect Children - Stop Shielding Sexual Predators, Provide Justice for Victims.
Support the Child Victims Act NYS Assembly Bill A2596. Senate Bill S5893 (click picture)
Wicked Man!
New Jersey lawyer representing several clients who claim they were abused by Mondrowitz, told the New York Jewish Week that he has uncovered evidence that Mondrowitz has continued his practice of treating young boys in Israel. Michael Lesher, an attorney and a writer specialising in sexual abuse cases, says a document obtained from Mondrowitz’s computer shows a 15-year-old boy was assessed by Mondrowitz in 2006. “We have always heard from the rabbis that, whatever has happened, in Israel, Mondrowitz has been kept away from children. Taking this at face value, it seems, that is not true.”
ensnared 44 rabbis, politicians and public officials in a sweeping anti-corruption raid last year
Solomon Dwek, once a highly regarded member of the Syrian Jewish community and known for his philanthropy, is now seen as a "moser," or "snitch," by some members of that community. Dwek has turned down a chance to enter the federal Witness Protection Program but he no longer lives in Deal.
Child advocates still in a state of shock and disbelief over Mondrowitz ruling
Yitzhak Kadman, president of the Israeli National Council for the Child, the oldest and largest children’s rights advocacy group in Israel, told The Jewish Week that “We are disappointed with the decision. We believe that it is sending [the] wrong message to people who are accused of such serious crimes [as the] sexual abuse of children.” Kadman added, “We believe that regardless of the question that Israel is and should be a shelter for every Jew in the world, the Law of Return [did not intend for] Israel to become a shelter for people who are pedophiles who are running from the court system in other countries.”
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Mondrowitz will not be extradited to stand trial in America.
“At the very least, the authorities in Israel should be pursuing criminal charges against Mondrowitz for recent crimes that both they and the U.S. authorities have clear and convincing evidence of,” said SFJ president Ben Hirsch. Michael Lesher, a Passaic, N. J., attorney who represents six American Jews who claim Mondrowitz abused them as children, said, “We know now, which we didn’t before, just what kind of denial we are facing. “We feel outrage, we feel bitterness and we feel rising anger that bringing Mondrowitz to justice is being resisted.”
At the mikveh, Weiss “touched his penis to the boy’s buttocks,” states the indictment.
“He got a slap on the hand. Across the country people are copping pleas so they don’t end up on sex offender registries,” said Vicki Polin, founder and chief executive officer of The Awareness Center, which advocates on behalf of victims of rabbinic sexual abuse. “Our courts seem to care more about white-collar crime than they do about our own children,” she said. “If he’s not on a sex offender registry, it means he still can teach. There are so many cases just like this and then they just re-offend.”
Justice Denied!
Israeli Supreme Court refuses to extradite Abraham Mondrowitz, suspected of sexually abusing minors 25 years ago
"rabbi" Yaakov Weiss admitted he had "inappropriate physical contact" with two naked boys.
Yaakov Weiss, founder of the Chabad of Colonie and the Chabad Hebrew School, pleaded guilty to child endangerment during an appearance in front of Albany County Judge Stephen Herrick. He faces up to 60 days in jail and three years probation as part of a plea bargain reached with the district attorney's office. His sentencing his schedule for March 1. Under questioning by the judge, Weiss admitted he had the inappropriate contact with the boy. He also told the court he told one of the boys to lie about the contact if asked by parents or police. In both cases, the indictment alleged that Weiss had sexual contact "consisting of placing his penis in contact with said child's buttocks." The incidents allegedly took place inside a pool, called a mikveh, used by some Jews for ritual purification, according to his attorney. (THE PUNISHMENT DOES NOT FIT THE CRIME)
Fourteen lawsuits from around the country have been filed against Eliyahu Weinstein
Vile: Fakewood, N.J., real estate developer accused of far-reaching scheme; may have laundered money through charities; grand jury empaneled. (click picture for The Jewish Week column)
Thank You Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg!
Frum Follies - The Story behind the Arrest of Rabbi David Greenfeld for Molesting
Church falls from grace, Are Yeshivos Next?
The Irish Catholic Church will hope it never again has to live through a year like 2009, a year when the litany of woes which befell it was unprecedented.
Coming out of the closet in Yeshiva University
The mashgiach ruchani of Yeshiva University, Rabbi Yosef Blau, introduces a panel discussion called "Being Gay in the Modern Orthodox World" to a standing-room-only crowd in Washington Heights (Photo by Michael Orbach/The Jewish Star).
Yeshiva teacher David Greenfeld accused of boy molest
A Borough Park, Brooklyn, yeshiva teacher was busted Wednesday morning for allegedly molesting a teenage boy who had attended his synagogue, cops said.
Tropper That...
Frum Satire: Jewish Comedy
Naftali Tzvi Weisz, Spinka Rebbe, Sentenced to 24 months in jail for Tax Fraud
"I'm embarrassed beyond words," Weisz told the judge. "My remorse is deep and heartfelt."
The Conversion controversy
OTTAWA — In the midst of a nasty global battle over who is a "true" Jew, Ottawa's Rabbi Reuven Bulka has stopped converting people to Orthodox Judaism.
'Watch these hands move'-- Yeshiva of Brooklyn Santa Skit
Playing the part, Nussbaum demonstrates on a boy in the bais medrash
Light 'em Up!
… and May This Festival of Lights bring Blessings upon you and All Your Loved Ones for Happiness, for Health, and for Spiritual and Material Wealth, and May the Lights of Chanukah Usher in the Light of Moshiach and a Better World for All of Humankind.
CHUTZPAH! Catholic Church Rules Alan Placa Not Guilty;
Rudy Giuliani Defended, Employed Friend Accused of Molesting Boys
Audacious Move: Accused Molester located. FailedMessiah has the story.
Avraham M. Leizerowitz has started working at a new job. He is the mashgiach ruchani (religious counselor) in a Jerusalem yeshiva for teen boys who have trouble in mainstream yeshivot. (click picture)
Deputy Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman's idea of eventually hospitalizing only women at the Eitanim Mental Health Center in the Jerusalem Corridor and only male patients at the Kfar Shaul State Mental Health Center would probably end up costing more money and be very difficult to manage, according to Dr. Yehezkel Caine, director of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem.
Lakewood in Turmoil
Concern over sex crime reporting in Orthodox neighborhoods has been bubbling for years. Child advocates attribute the recent escalation to a plethora of blogs and support groups that give emboldened victims a voice.
YWN photos
Agudah Israel 87th National Convention 5770 Thursday Sessions
Frum Follies:
Boro Park Acts against Baruch Lebovits, Motty Borger’s Alleged Molester
AGUDATH ISRAEL FRESS CONVENTION AGENDA: TWIST THE FACTS, CREATE A DIVERSION; DISTORT THE TRUTH
“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”
The Awareness Center, Inc. The International Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault
Vicki Polin and Michael J. Salamon of The Awareness Center will be presenting on a panel, along with Asher Lipner and Joseph Di Angello at the 2010 Male Survivor Conference on Sunday, March 21, 2010
When: March 18 - 21, 2010 Where: John Jay College - New York, NY
Activists working to expose sex-abuse scandals in Orthodox yeshivot said
that a report in the New York Post that Mr Borger had been molested as a yeshivah student was accurate — despite angry comments posted from Mr Borger’s acquaintances.
How Is It That A Serial Child Rapist Goes Undetected For So Long?
Vermin In Our Midst: Baruch Lebovits Indicted On Hundreds Of Counts Of Child Rape And Abuse. Click On This Freak Of Nature To Be Taken To FailedMessiah Reporting.
Breaking... FailedMessiah Reports...
Baruch Lebovits Accused Of Hundreds Of Counts Of Child Rape And Abuse
“You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings” ~Lisa Simpson quotes
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I support the Child Victims Act of New York (A2596B/S5893).
Steve Lipman's eye-openening article in The Jewish Week
"Twice within the past few years, several pulpit rabbis in Passaic, Rabbi Eisenman among them, announced in shul when men accused of being sexual molesters had moved into the community. One, Stefan Colmer, left Passaic soon thereafter, likely because of the public exposure, Passaic residents say, and is now in jail having been convicted of eight counts of criminal sexual act in the second degree; the other, Mitchell Levinton, pleaded guilty to child endangerment last month and faces a five-year prison term."
"We all know now - Meir Kahane was right"
"He dedicated his whole life to Israel... he was a great man, and a great leader. Today, even the Left admits that we have a demographic problem." Kahane was assassinated in New York on November 5, 1990.
This piece of crap should have been stuffed in the airplane's cargo hold
Elior Chen, suspected of ordering his followers to abuse children, to land in Israel on Wednesday afternoon after being extradited from Brazil. Upon boarding plane he shouts, 'This is illegal'
Israeli rabbi charged with raping teens
The 42-year-old rabbi not only raped the 16-year-old teen but also molested her 14-year-old sister and physically assaulted her 15-year-old brother.
has been a fugitive from justice for the past 31 years.
If Roman Polanski were charged with child rape today, DNA evidence, stiffer penalties, outcry over childhood sexual abuse and tougher scrutiny of celebrity justice would make prosecutors much less willing to cut the plea deal the director received more than 30 years ago, legal experts say.
money can't buy his way out of jail
Roman Polanski was accused of plying a 13-year-old girl with champagne and part of a Quaalude during a modeling shoot in 1977 and raping her. He was initially indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy.
Vile: Goerge admitted during interviews that her crimes were 'disgusting'
Vanessa George, from Plymouth, admitted 13 charges, including sexual abuse of children and making and distributing indecent images of children.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
In the past decade, Rabbi Stanley Z. Levitt, 63, has faced similar charges here in Philadelphia.
A rabbi living in Northeast Philadelphia has been charged in Boston for allegedly sexually abusing two students at a day school there more than 30 years ago
true leader: Judge Gustin Reichbach berates Orthodox Community In Sex-Abuse Case
Orthodox community's religious courts are "inappropriate" and "incapable" of dealing with criminal matters. (click on picture)
We owe him a debt of gratidude: awe-inspiring amassment was led by Rav Ron Yitzchok Eisenman.
They came in droves to support and listen to child sexual abuse survivors tell their stories of abuse and betrayal.
Passaic NJ, September 26, 2009 – A Night Of Solidarity
FailedMessiah has the audio link to this monumental event.
"During these seven days you must live in sukkahs (thatched huts). . . .
This is so that future generations will know that I (G·d) had the Israelites live in sukkahs when I brought them out of Egypt." Leviticus 23:42,43
Wings And Prayers: By Rabbi Avi Shafran (the same man who excuses Orthodox Jewish pedophiles)
"As it happens, while a chicken is not injured or traumatized by being held and waved, there have indeed been situations where chickens, before or after the kaparos ceremony, have not been treated with the sensitivity to animals’ comfort that halachah mandates."
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
faces of evil: Jesse Edward Laramee, left, and Jane Marie Marcy
According to the arrest report, the 7-year-old victim told investigators that Laramee made her perform oral sex and to have sexual intercourse. She told investigators that when she cried, he slapped her in the face and told her to shut up.
Donkeys of Lakewood and Brooklyn forced to look in the mirror.
September 12, 2009
Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood deals with sex abuse (by continuing to claim ignorance and telling more lies)
By ZACH PATBERG STAFF WRITER
At some point, amid battling a drug addiction and childhood memories of molestation, Shua Finkelstein wrote a letter. Discovered on his computer after he died Feb. 28 from an overdose of pain killers, the letter admonished his Orthodox Jewish community...
"It is your duty as a Jew, as a human to find these people in our community and no longer let them live among us!!!" it read. On April 14, a few weeks after the letter became public online, the Finkelsteins' house was gutted by a fire while they were out of town for Passover. A police report cited arson as the likely cause. Authorities say they are still investigating.
Find out which sex offenders are living near you and your children.
You can track registered sex offenders at FamilyWatchDog.us. You just type in your address and the offender's information is provided. You can also run a background check on someone.
President Barack Obama is really Jewish.
Not a spoof. Rabbi Leib Tropper converted him.
HIV infected Jere Michael Temple, 58 raped a 13 year old boy repeatedly
Lakeland Police Sergeant Gary Gross stated, “It actually turned my stomach last night listening in on the interview. I've been doing this for 21 years. It was to a point I actually walked off. I really couldn't take anymore of what this guy was doing to this child.”
(rabbi) shlomo mandel on his way to the bathroom at the 2009 agudah convention.
Child molester/abuser, Yehuda Nussbaum, still employed by Yeshiva of Brooklyn.
Case of Rabbi Yaakov Menken
In 2005 Rabbi Yaakov Menken had a discussion with Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky and confessed to having sexual contact with a very young woman he counseled. He basically blamed the survivor, stating "she came on to me".
Horace Skeete, charged with molestation of 9-year-old girl.
"These are false accusations," said a woman at day care facility who claimed to be Skeete's wife. "I know my husband would not do anything like that."
pure evil!
The arrest of registered sex offender Phillip Garrido has raised questions regarding how closely sex offenders are monitored in the U.S.
Why has the press ignored the case of Duke U. official arrested for child molestation?
Allegedly, on at least three occasions Lombard could be seen via webcam performing oral sex , and other sex acts on his adopted 5-year-old son. Apparently, Lombard had allowed other individuals to molest the child as well.
Retired engineer Jack Louis Sporich, 74, was classified
as one of California's most dangerous sex offenders in the 1990s, when he spent nine years in prison for molesting more than 500 young boys since the 1960s, MyFOXPhoenix reported.
An Upstate New York rabbi is accused of molesting two boys.
Yaakov Weiss, who teaches in Albany, appeared in court to answer to charges that he had inappropriate sexual contact with two of his male students, both 13 years old.
(rabbi) Yaakov Weiss Indictment: Rabbi told boy 'just say nothing happened'
In both cases, June, the indictment alleged, Weiss had sexual contact "consisting of placing his penis in contact with said child's buttocks." It allegedly took place inside a pool known religiously as a mikveh, according to his attorney.
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu was hospitalized on Monday after losing consciousness for several minutes.
His family, including his son Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Tzfat (Safed), asks that the public pray for his health (Rav Mordechai Tzemach ben [son of] Mazal).
looks can be deceiving.
A JURY has sentenced a Texas mother convicted of mutilating her infant by cutting off his genitals to 99 years in prison.
Former soccer coach found guilty on all molestation charges
David Durling testified Wednesday in Woodbury that he never had any sexual contact with boys.
Suspected child molester sought. Authorities are hunting for a man they say molested little girls.
Miller is described as a 33-year-old white male. He is 6'2" tall and weighs 200 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for any information called in to the 713-222-8477 (TIPS) hotline or submitted online at www.crime-stoppers.org that leads to the arrest of Miller. All tipsters remain anonymous.
you can run but you can't hide!
Convicted molester Michael Stephens spent the past 14 years on the run in California and Mexico. Now he will spend the next 20 years in prison.
Does the Old Testament foster corruption?
Click on image to read this fascinating article.
Parents Severely Beat Alleged Child Molester
Terry Gibbs, 54, Has Heart Attack After Beating. Gibbs told officers he had been beaten because he had sexually assaulted three children, all under 10 years old, to whom he is related.
5 rabbis arrested in corruption scam
The rabbis were charged with laundering tens of millions of dollars through charities in the US and Israel. Another Jewish suspect was accused of selling Israeli donors' kidneys for up to $160,000.
Is this justice? Stefan Colmer can get out of jail this year
Colmer was arraigned in January 2008 on 35 counts of sex crimes, stemming from charges that he sodomized a 12- and 13-year-old boy in his Midwood home in 2006.
Supporters of the Markey bill point to Lopez as the architect of the bill’s downfall.
“It’s sad, but by no means are we going to stop,” Diangelo said as he protested outside the office of Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a Brooklyn Democrat who played the most visible role in blocking the sex-abuse bill in the Assembly.
The Jewish Week reports some bombshells: Colmer Plea Deal Seen Raising Questions
The deal involving Stefan Colmer, once a member of Midwood’s Orthodox community, is raising questions about the handling of his case and its impact on future victims’ willingness to come forward to law enforcement officials, according to observers.
cookie monster: Queens bakery owner, Issac Ebstein, 50, who admits he molested
a 10-year-old boy who came in for cookies isn't going to prison - and plans to be back at work next week.
Sex Abuse Suspect Blas Elguezabal, 28, of Newberg, Met Girls On MySpace
Detectives are asking anyone with specific information that Elguezabal had illegal contact with a minor that has not been reported to call the Washington County Sheriff's Office at 503-846-2700.
The price of recklessness
Uri Orbach slams violence displayed by rioting ultra-Orthodox, teenage settlers
Silence is the Enemy:
Bloggers against rape and sexual violence
Attention pedophiles of color:
Sonia Sotomayor will give you a fair trial
The Novominsker Tush - Shtick Drek Liar
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
1 in 5 children in america is a victim of childhood sexual abuse
SUPPORT THE CHILD VICTIMS' ACT OF NEW YORK. ASSEMBLY BILL NUMBER A.2596
Rabbinical Donkeys will burn in hell for this.
Joel Engelman, pictured as a child, and Tamir Weissberg said they were victims of sexual abuse by members of the Orthodox Jewish community. They said they were told not to discuss the alleged abuse.
Avi Shafran has a new neighbor.
Luis Villanueva, 39, is charged with failing to notify authorities that he moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island. He was convicted in 1994 of raping an 8-year-old girl, he's suspected of sexually assaulting an adult male, and now, police say, he's come to Staten Island.
One could envision a scenario in which a senior citizen
might choose to bring a claim against a school for an incident that allegedly occurred over half-a-century ago when the claimant was a child.
At selective hotels for Pesach - introducing the first ever 20 pound kosher lepesach sandwich.
This massive feast is made up of meat, cheese and tacos.
Tempest in the Temple: by Amy Neustein (Editor)
Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals
Former NYPD Sgt. and leader of the Gay Officers Action League, Jamie Katz, convicted in child sex.
He took the boy with him from New York City to Nanuet, where Katz’s mother resided, on many occasions and had sex with him there. Victim testified that he had attempted to kill himself as a result of the abuse he endured.
Assemblywoman Margaret M. Markey 30th Assembly District
My bill – A.4560B, the Child Victims Act of New York – will provide the opportunity for victims who were shut off from justice to receive their day in court.
Noted Jewish community activist Meir (Mark) Appel made a passionate appeal to the frum community
to rally behind a controversial new sexual abuse bill to be proposed in Albany. Click on image above.
Upcoming Events: Sunday, March 22nd - Program to Stop Abuse
The Jewish Board of Advocates for Children, Inc. (JBAC) is a new non-profit corporation founded in New York State in 2008.
State Senator Thomas K. Duane
is the sponsor of a bill that would suspend the statute of limitations on abuse claims.
“Impossible situations can become possible miracles.”
“And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.”
In the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on its thirteenth day ...
on the day that the enemies of the Jews were expected to prevail over them, it was turned about: the Jews prevailed over their adversaries. - Esther 9:1
"Rabbi" Lippy Margulies thought his purim costume
and shlomo mandel's will scare the children more than anything.
"Rabbi" Shlomo 'Crocodile Tears' Mandel
shows off his purim costume this year.
This gorilla did not appreciate Avi Shafran's disgenuous remarks
"And if it serves to, without inappropriate finger-pointing and conspiracy-theorizing, raise awareness of a threat to our children and promote the effective addressing of a terrible societal problem, all the more so."
this is how lipa margulies looks
after he was abducted by aliens
"The Jetsons" are back!
The electric version has a 100 mile range per charge and can be recharged by plugging into a regular electric outlet.
Free Gilad Shalit blog - Click on picture to be taken there.
Paul Amenson - An elementary school janitor and recess supervisor
will spend five years in prison and 45 years on supervision for molesting students. Brown County Circuit Court Judge Kendall Kelley said Friday he considered Amenson at extreme high risk of re-offending.
Future Gadol Hador
at the Rabbinical zoo
Campaign posters for Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, top, and his rival,
Israel's Foreign Minister and Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni, bottom, are seen in Jerusalem
Adam and Ben Steed were sexually abused by their then-Scout Leader, Brad Stowell in 1997.
"What worries me is the ability of sex offenders to plea bargain their way out of harsher sentences. Plea bargains would only result in injury to a child," said Steed.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - this fraud protects sex abusers
Elizabeth Crothers told the News, "I see it as the only opportunity to bring real reform to New York and to unseat one of the worst leaders in the state and quite possibly in the nation."
Sexually Violent Child Molester May Be Released In East County
Mathew Harvey Hedge, a sexually violent child sex offender, may SOON be calling the town of Ramona his brand new HOME. He is a dangerous REPEAT OFFENDER; scurge of the earth that should never again see the light of day.
Robert Blue to plead guilty to one count of child abuse and neglect with substantial mental injury
"She (his 14 year old daughter) was indeed chained to her bed and shackled by her right ankle," the report states, noting that she was found "emotionally distraught and crying uncontrollably." "He's not a monster," one of the rabbis said outside court. "He's a human being."
Rabbi David Niederman heads the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg- enables sex abuse
"To me, it does not make sense," says Niederman, of the United Jewish Organizations, "that so many people have been violated and for so many years they have been quiet. Something does not add up. It's being blown out of proportion — big time."
Baltimore Man Arrested for Molesting Girl, 7
David Milton Wilson, 51, of the 7200 block of Shipway allegedly abused the girl since 2006. Police believe there may be other victims and are asking anyone who may be a victim to contact the department's Crimes Against Children Unit at 410-853-3650.
Homer Clark Steele Jr. molesting children for 5 decades
Police said he confided to investigators that there may be other molestation victims from Marshall, Pasadena and Houston dating all the way back to the 1960s.
molested a boy who had been in his care from the age of five
Police say 69-year-old Homer Clark Steele, Jr. is accused of molesting one child at the Pasadena apartment complex where he lives.
Child molester enabler Shlomo Mandel and His buddy child Molester Yehuda Nussbaum
having a good time playing hide and seek
“Don't point that beard at me, it might go off”
“Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard”
Courtney Love’s anti-Semitic views have been revealed
“Every time you buy a Nirvana record, part of that money is not going to Kurt's child, or to me, it's going to a handful of Jew loan officers, Jew private banks, it's going to lawyers who are also bankers . . .”
THIS IDIOT BELIEVES IN NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS
“I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.” ~~~Joel Rosenberg ~~~
HERO: Capt. Chelsey B. Sullenberger III piloted US Airways Flight 1549 to a safe landing
in the Hudson River after the aircraft engines lost power due to suspected bird strikes.
another one bites the dust
former interior minister Said Siam (of Hamas) blown to pieces by IDF
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to a hospitalized Israeli boy
during a visit at a hospital in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Sunday Jan. 4, 2009
Hamas leader liquidated - - the virgins are singing
Israel drops a one-ton bomb on the Gaza home of Nizar Rayan, a senior Hamas commander
ה' ישמרך מכל-רע ישמור את-נפשך. ה' ישמור צאתך ובואך מעתה ועד עולם
The Lord shall keep thee from all evil; He shall keep thy soul. The Lord shall guard thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and for ever.
Hineh, lo yanum velo yishan shomer yisrael.
Behold, He that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep.
Israeli Air Force attack Gaza Dec-27-2008.
Israel must finish off every Hamas thug still breathing
Israel at war - Watch world's reactions to Israeli airstrikes
Chanukah 2008 starts on the sunset of Sunday, the 21st of December.
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” ~~ Helen Keller ~~
Money, money, money Must be funny In the rich mans world
Money, money, money Always sunny In the rich mans world Aha-ahaaa All the things I could do If I had a little money Its a rich mans world
murder and decapitation of a six-year-old boy 27 years ago solved
The case radically affected police procedures over missing children and inspired the TV show "America's Most Wanted", presented by Adam's father.
Hanukah, the Festival of Lights
Rabbi Yacov Borenstein thought the battle to site a large electrical menorah was over when Acting Supreme Court Justice James Pagones last week approved placing it at the corner of Main and Market streets in Poughkeepsie. The city wanted it placed in a lot one block in on Main Street along with a Christmas tree.
DEBATE: Arguing kosher ethics
fom left: Avi Shafran of Aguda Israel of America; Menachem Genack of Orthodox Union; Basil Herring of Rabbinical Council of America; Shmuly Yanklowitz of Uri L’Tzedek.
Anti-Semite, offal, putz, Heath Campbell - left, with his wife Deborah and son Adolph Hitler, 3.
Deborah and her husband Heath attempted to by a birthday cake for their son at a near by ShopRite supermarket in Greenwich, N.J. and were told that the store would not inscribe Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler on the cake.
Avi urges all poets to strip naked and shower immediatley.
"A great poet might opt to not shower," Shafran said, "but that bad habit doesn't necessarily affect the quality of his writing."
Mourners pray over bodies of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife,
during their funeral procession in Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv, 02 Dec 2008
Rivka Holtzberg, wife of Gavriel, also murdered in Mumbai
Corinne Marlen - Rivki told me "when you have faith, you believe that G-d puts challenges in front of you, and tests your faith, sometimes you may not understand why things happen but that does not mean you should lose faith..."
Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, left, was the co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Mumbai, India
he was slain in cold blood. May G-D avenge his blood.
Click on link. YWN has all the photos of the Skvere Rebbe's visit to YOB
Thank you for making the rounds and visiting all the sexual predator enablers.
I understand the Rebbe also paid a visit to Margo at Torah Temima and Belsky at Torah Vodaas
I think it was only a few boys that yehuda nussbaum sexually abused
I did not want Yeshiva Of Brooklyn to have a bad name so I swept the shmootz under the rug!
Let me show you where it says that
a rebbe is permitted to sexually molest boys
Shlomo Mandel - A monster and one of the biggests frauds in Klal Yisrael
greets the Skvere Rebbe at YOB
Agudah Fresser taking a shabbos nap
at the Stamford Hilton in Stamford, Connecticut
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the new Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union.
was formally the rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Baltimore. Was aware that Moshe Eisemann was a very ill person that was a danger to children, and he did nothing!
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves;
and, under a just God, can not long retain it." ~~~Abraham Lincoln ~~~
Abraham Lincoln (attributed) quote in response to a question about Ohel's CEO david mandel
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Yaakov Weiss of Loudonville was arrested Thursday afternoon.
Albany police say the 28-year-old rabbi had sexual contact with a 13-year-old boy multiple times between November 2007 and April 2008.
report all allegations of sexual abuse to the police immediately. Do not go to your rabbi!!!
We are adequately trained and equipped to handle such an investigation. The Jewish community impedes the process.
Brooklyn, NY - Dov Hikind Puts Yeshivas On Notice With Harsh Warning:
I am Going To Publicly Shame You If You Harbor Rebbe Molesters. Victims: I’m at 718-853-9616…and I am waiting for your call.
Israelis in Anguish Over the Abuse and Murder of 4-Year-Old Rose Pizem
it seemed that perhaps the only constant in Rose's short and tragic life was abuse.
Joseph Shereshevsky, left, speaks to partner Steven Byers at an event in 2006.
They are accused by the SEC of defrauding $100 million from investors. Fellow Orthodox Jews are the principal victims. (Image from www.vosizneias.com)
The hat which represents this Jew is now representing his shame. Lock this perv up!
Former principal of school in West Bank indicted on charges of inviting students into his office, touching their sexual organs while discussing schoolwork
And that's why I only get involved in Boro Park issues
Yudi Kolko in Flatbush or Lakewood is not within my jurisdiction.
Dr. David Pelcovitz saved Isaac Hersh
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. (Matthew Arnold)
This cow told the Rubashkins to act humanely
and was then punished with a painful shechita!
Rubashkin: It’s all a lie
Aaron Rubashkin, outside his Brooklyn butcher shop on June 3, 2008, says his Agriprocessors firm "don't do no injustice to nobody, not to a cat."
Suspected Haredi child abuser Elior Chen
turned himself in to Brazilian authorities
Moishe Rubashkin has totally lost it
here he is seen chain smoking and boozing it up while on the job!
Sex Abuse a Shadow Over U.S. Schools
Mitchell King, right, appearing in court in Wausau, Wis., in 2005, is one of 44 Wisconsin public school teachers who lost their teaching licenses between 2001 and 2005 because of sexual misconduct.
Erik Erikson, Dr. quotes: “Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered
and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”
“The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child”
“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?”
Open your mouth and taste my finger
Pope Benedict, in a dramatic surprise, held an emotional meeting on Thursday with victims of sexual abuse by priests, consoling them and promising them his prayers.
Ehud Olmert's government is Israel's own worst enemy!
Israeli tanks in the Golan Heights on Wednesday. Syria wants the region back.
child molesters got excited when this new department store opened up
Yudi kolko tried shopping here, but got scared off when they asked him if he wanted to have a sex- change.
The crocodile's bite force is more than 5,000 pounds per square inch
They have extremely powerful jaws capable of biting down with immense force, by far the strongest bite of any animal
This is Harav Shlomo "crocodile tears" Mandel speaking. Kars4kids Car Donation program
even gives you a free vacation voucher for a free 3 day 2 night hotel stay. (rooms don't come with television)
We will provide hassle free pick-up for your car donation
the proceeds will go to benefit Oorah - Cucumber, J.O.Y, Camp BoyZone, and any other profitable businesses.
would it take to equal a mother and baby Elephant?
Berlin's 'Potsdamer Platz' square
The site where Margo's car was swallowed up. Witnesses say Lipa was doing business with the Germans.
This chol hamohed at the Rubashkins Slaughterhouse
Take your family to the ultimate Bulls Fight.
A shot of Crown Royal
to show that i'm the one you want answering the phone at 3:00am
Fresh bread at a Jerusalem bakery during Pesach is reason for hundreds of Haredi protesters
but by child abuse there is no need to protest. Go figure!
Avi Shafran modeling a gay pride outfit
during his days as a wild teenager.
Jerusalem mayor urges business owners not to sell bread during Passover
Lupolianski asks businesses to ignore court ruling, says he believes in dialogue rather than coercion
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz published a legal brief Tuesday endorsing a recent court ruling
that authorized the selling of leavened goods on Passover, as long as they are not publicly displayed.
Haredim riot in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood
"The Holy Land will shudder at the blasphemy of Jewish criminals... selling hametz during Pessah," reads the headline of Ha'edah, the weekly mouthpiece of the Edah Haredit.
A Palestinian woman shoots in the air during a march by militants from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade
in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, Sunday.
with friends like Jimmy who needs enemies?
Former US President Jimmy Carter, left, meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, at the Presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, on Friday.
Friends of kidnapped soldiers Gilad Schalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev conduct a Pessah seder
outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on Saturday night, to press for action to gain their release.
Arieh Yerushalmi will evaluate public and private places where you can display CHOMETZ
He explained his decision to strip despite his religious values, saying that "this is why I left the sock on, that's what I didn’t care. Sometimes one has to shout – the shame was not mine, but the other people's."
YEHUDA FRIEDLANDER
Non-NYS Felony Sex Offense Victim: Female, 15 Years
Rabbi Jerry Brauner (AKA: Yechiel Brauner)
Convicted on the charges of Sexual Abuse-1st Degree of a 15 year old boy.
Jimmy Adolf Carter speaking words
of encouragement to Hamas terrorists.
Kosher L'Pesach 24 hour tea room extravaganza
at your favorite pesach hotel featuring real passover french bread.
Aaron Shlechter the ape
making an obscene gesture!
WANTED: Police seek extradition of rabbi from Canada
Rabbi Elior Chen and his followers are suspected of severely abusing two children, aged 3 and 4, who were savagely and systematically beaten with hammers, knives and other instruments for months until the younger child lost consciousness last month..
Child Molester Yehuda Nussbaum
showing off his new tattoos.
Mordy Tendler on his wedding day
grabbing the butt cheek of another woman.
Lipa Margulies displayed
in "BODIES" Exhibition
Aaron Schechter approved wigs
all other shaitels must be burned.
Avi Shafran and Agudath Israel are encouraging
every Rabbi to own one of these!
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Malka Leifer accused of sexually molesting girls age 15 and 16
Outraged parents claim that the Adass Israel Girls' School in Elsternwick paid for Malka Leifer, a mother of eight, to return to Israel before reporting the complaints to the police.
Ephraim Wachsman on Purim -
was employed by Kolko in Camp Ma-Na-Vu
Aaron Schechter will sign off on sending
your problem child to Tranquility Bay
I'm going to squeeze every last
ounce of votes out of the Jewish communities.
What do you do when a drunk wants
some of the Rebbe's blessed wine?
Donate to Oorah - Con Artists
A scam approved by the "gedolim"
Yaakov Perlow celebrating
his Bar Mitzvah as a yuchid.
pick one up at the
next agudah convention
Listen to Rabbi Meir Kahane H'YD
and expel the Arabs from our land!
I ban you from going
to the Lipa Shmeltzer concert.
Oorah and Kars-4-kids are asking yeshiva bochurim to collect money this Purim
from all the rich gentiles. (receive this Avi Shafran costume for free)
Lepold Margulis showing off his purim costume
He chose watermelon, the color of blood.
Melaveh Malka around the pool. Bring your boys with you.
Special guest speaker - Yehuda Kolko
Collect for the Moetzes this Purim
and receive this free face mask.
"According to halacha, it is forbidden to employ Arabs, especially in yeshivas,"
When referring to employing Arabs - today - g-d forbid, it means placing people in mortal danger." -- Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita.
Yeshiva Merkaz Harav Palestinian Terrorist
Evil Murderer of children who is burning in hell of hells!
The cords of death surrounded me, and the pains of Sheol seized me.
I found trouble and sorrow!
Every "Rabbi" that is contributing to the downfall of Am Yisrael
should be hanged for their thuggery and hijacking of the Torah.
Avi Shafran, is that you?
Drinking is not the answer to your problems.
Yudi Kolko's new treehouse in Lakewood
Spitzer wants to know if he has reshus to use it too.
Spitzer will resign and so should the "Moetzes"
for their kiddie sex scandals and abuse of the Torah!
Tinokot shel bait rabban sitting by their talmuds learning gemarah - a very steep price to pay
There is a message here for all the weasels. You are butchering the holy Torah!
Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik in response to Rabbi Shapira:
"this isn't an ethical question at all. The tent should be destroyed; the house should be destroyed."
The eight holy souls gunned down in ruthless fashion
We will never forget you - May G-D avenge your blood!
Israeli mourners carry the body of Segev Pniel Avihayil, 15,
during his funeral at the Mount of Olives
Have mercy on us
destroy our enemies
How much more
of this can we take
Listen to the cries
of your children
Hashem Yisbarach
please have mercy on us!
So many children have perished as a result
of a gutless and spineless Rabbiniate.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. Albert Einstein
A young Wayne Thibert was sexually abused for 6 years by a now dead priest
"I was an outcast from a lot of things," said Thibert, 51. "I guess he might have seen that. He became my friend."
Every enabler of abuse should own one of these
to remind themselves of how many Jewish lives they butchered!
Agudas Yisroel Of America is now promoting
the special "kosher condom" stapled to this card!
A Yisroel Belsky approved King Size cheese burger
being featured at Le Marais. The lettuce has a crunchy suprise waiting in it.
For all you Agudah fressers - come to papa
and show him what an asshole you really are!
“lo ta’amod al dam rei’echa. You shall not stand by the blood of your neighbor.
You shall not stand idly by while your neighbor bleeds” [Lev.19:16].
OUR MISSION IS - PREVENTING ALL FORMS OF ABUSE AND CURRUPTION IN THE JEWISH WORLD AND BEYOND!!!
VICTIMS OF ABUSE - FEAR NOT - JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL!!!
'Rabbi' Shlomo Mandel enabled the sexual abuse of children by 'Rabbi' Yehuda Nussbaum
AND DID NOTHING TO STOP IT!
A new "special" cemetery for child molesters
and their enablers!
Tendler boy peeking underneath
for best view!
After getting caught red handed
Tendler kid gives photographer the finger!
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He would make a lovely corpse."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate."
- Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was
After a little girl in Boro Park was abducted and sexually abused
NYPD Patrol the Jewish neighborhood looking for the perpetrator
Avrohm Mondrowitz can't believe it.
How can Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes double cross me, I thought we were friends?
Avrohm Mondrowitz looks very scared.
Was he worried about all the lives he destroyed? NO! This vicious pedophile should rot in prison for the rest of his miserable life!
I can't believe they're going after me now.
It's two decades later, why don't you people get over it already!
I'm an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Pedophile
Give me some respect!
I don't want to get raped in jail by another man.
At least arrange for me to have some young boys in my prison cell.
OUCH! Stop dragging me,
All this because I sexually assaulted dozens of boys. These guys want to teach me a lesson i'll never forget! I hate you all for doing this to me!
If only I had not molested...
Now look at me...
It's a lose-lose situation for Mondrowitz. He must face the sodomy and
other sex abuse charges. Loses his freedom and is separated from a family who supports him. Sad sight. Let justice take its course!
They deserve a standing ovation from all of us!
Activists against sex abuse in the Jewish community, from left, sociologist Amy Neustein, attorney Michael Lesher, and journalist Susan Rosenbluth, said they welcomed the arrest of alleged pedophile Avrohom Mondrowitz.
Our meat contains mad cow disease.
Our chickens come with the feathers and feces intact, yummy!
Our meat and poultry are not really kosher.
We believe in animal cruelty. We believe in violating as many laws as possible!
Pearls of wisdom!
Don't be a moron!
Yudi Kolko under arrest.
YTT and the Rabbis - gave me the green light to molest boys for over 4 decades!
Sex abuse survivor dreams of the day when
all the enablers of sexual abuse are brought to justice!
And I love yours!
Say Ahamad - Those Netuei Karta people are they Jewish?
Shlomo Mandel - I made it to the Agudah Convention
I'm the Rosh Yeshiva; Yeshiva Of Brooklyn - So what if Yehudah Nussbaum molested boys at my Yeshiva!
Baruch Atah Hashem.... That all the boys who were molested because of me
Should disappear under the rug along with all the other shmootz...
the rug in Matt Solomons living room!
Shlomo Mandel has a very similiar one in his home!
Sholmo Mandel sweeping under the rug.
He had his beard and payos chopped off and became a fryer yid!
Shlomo 'crocodile tears' Mandel bit off a lot more than just a forearm
He butchered the Torah and left a trail of abuse victims!
Shtait in de hailke gemorrah
chayah ruahs nikrah adam!
Child molestation is a growing problem in the United States.
Each year thousands of children are sexually abused by sexual predators.
Don't forget to daven mincha.
You can go back to stealing afterwards.
My dusty hat is being steamed cleaned.
Frum Jews molesting children? I have no comment.
Rav Shach ztvk'l
A True Tzadik!
True Gadol Hador
Elazar Menachem Man Shach (אלעזר מנחם מן שך)
Happy is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scorners.
But whose delight is in the Torah of the Lord;
and in his Torah he meditates day and night.
Listen World
Listen Jew!
Kahane was right all along.
The Arabs do not want peace with Israel!
He was killed for standing up against our enemies and speaking the truth
Hashem Yikom Damam!
Beaavat Yisrael
Harav Meir Kahane Zt'l
Until Techiyat Amethim
Farewell Hero, Farewell Patriot.
Reb Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz Zt'l
Ignited the flames of True Torah Judiasim!
Lipa Marguelis posing at the agudah podium
I repeat: Yeshiva Torah Temima had no idea about Yudi Kolko
teach your children to report unwanted touch
Emphasize that they shouldn't be ashamed to tell you about it.
Some Rabbis may not seem as scary as this tiger
But they have proven themselves to be just as deadly!
No! I'm telling you I was at the bris
And I assure you I did not see any penetration
He who saves one life
It is considered as if he has saved the entire world!
Shevach Monsey, Rubashkins, Yisroel P.Gornish
How are we ever going to end up Glatt Kosher?
We don't want to suffer any pain.
Please don't load us on a truck to Postville Iowa
I'm issuing a Hazmonah on behalf of Yeshiva Torah Temimah
For Motzei Shem Rah against Margo & Kolko
Spinka Rabbi with Rabbi Stein
Gelt vil kimen. The reshuim ich zugzte..
OY VEY! We try not to cause a Chilul Hashem
If it wasn't for the government informant there would be none.
YOB Victims. Please come down to the station
and file a complaint with us. We are investigating abuse.
Any allegations of abuse by Yeshivah Of Brooklyn
Should be reported by dialing 911 or going down to the Police Station.
The gedolim forbid using the evil internet
Unless it is for business purposes only!
The Holy Torah says 'lo samod al dam re'echa'
I'm a gadol who doesn't hold by it!
Avi Shafran is a weasel
Blogosphere & Jewish world know a fraud when they hear one!
PR Agudas Israel Avi Shafran's office
Delivering a message to the pope has never been more fun!
Tzar Balei Chaim
by the Rubashkins
Like good ol' times
Peres, Bush, Olmert.
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out...
Is Bush watching some Arabs doing shiluach hakan?
Actually, they are getting ready for a bird dinner.
I'll sell you the brooklyn bridge.
Ain't that a good deal!
Phew! It stinks! All this drek and chara
is making the neighborhood smell disgusting!
A child molestation accusation led one woman to slit her
husband's throat, and both of them are facing charges.
I'm a noted gadol and speaker on all topics regarding children and yiras shomayim
but i'm starting to get the feeling that people know about the big pile of dirt under my living room rug!
"Rabbi" Avraham M. Leizerowitz
A child molester on the run!
Why is he fighting the extradition of Mondrowitz?
Because he is a tush and a putz!
Hagoan Harav Shmuel Berenbaum Z'tvkl
Torah (תּוֹרָה) * Genesis (בראשית, Bereshit: "In the beginning...")
cow demonstrating against animal cruelty
at the entrance to the Rubashkins Slaughterhouse
The next gedolim psak
a yid can ride a bus with the same gender only!
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Albert Einstein quote
Rabbi Lippy Margulis by the podium
Striking his best pose at the Agudah Convention!
What happened to Avi Shafran?
It seems his face has been rearranged.
This Viduy is so easy even an IDIOT can read it
for complete IDIOTS only.
Poor Poor Rabbi Shlomo Mandel
What happened to the beard, payos, and the yarmulkah shlomy? looks like he's gone totally senile!
Bless me father for I have sinned.
Pope John Paul II blessing Father Marcial Maciel (now deceased) who is accused of sexually abusing former priests in training.
Yudi Kolko - Are you out of your kishkes?
What were you thinking loading all of that wood for your new treehouse on your junky plymouth roof?
Rabbi Yisroel Belsky under his bed in his latest stress therapy tryout
where you see he dresses up as the evil clown in preparation for the Halloween and Purim festivals.
Rubashkins chemical waste is up in flames
look at all those toxic chemical waste barrels dumped on the citizens of New York.
Rabbi Milton Balkany on his way home from work when suddenly all hell broke loose.
rescue teams are still searching for his head.
The new "kosher" phone. Don't leave home without it.
The ketanim are asking the klal to stay away from non-kosher cell phones.
The woods in Camp Agudah where
Yudi Kolko molested some boys
Crunch. Crunch. Crunch. Why is my salad so crunchy?
Beause the LE MARAIS' CHEF snuck some beetles in there.
The car advertisment in the Belsky advertising campaign to
lure married people into divorce and giving him their business.
Yudi Kolko's custom made donkey's rear end
Don’t be afraid to ring the doorbell. Please, just press it at least once.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak
are an embarrassment to Israel and Jews. Currupt 'leadership' is a crime!
Israeli Protester throws remains of a Rocket
that was fired at them by Hamas Terrorists.
Wait a minute Hillary, You can't fool me.
No you wait a minute Barack Obama. I'm your senior, You remember that.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself - Lois McMaster Bujold
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character - Oscar Levant
Atrist sketch of the fraudster from Baltimore
the big cheese of Kashrut and enabler of abuse!
President George Bush dressing up as a muslim
and trying to infiltrate Al-Quaida in Pakistan.
Those menuvel Rabbis are always welcome
to come work for us you know. Belsky & Byrks get first dibs.
The butchers of Jewish neshamas
will one day end up looking like this after the worms and insects are done with it.
Reb Aaron Shechter: This is prust.. Si Pas nisht fe ayid!
If they made this with a male behind I wouldn't mind as much.
Who said the Rubashkins were cruel? Sholom Rubashkin is seen in this undated photo
walking a sad chicken around the slaughterhouse before the shechita.
Rabbi Avi Shafran celebrating his birthday in style.
Only two years old and already showing signs of being very wise!
Yehudah Nussbaum and Shlomo Mandel
drinking beer in the park as kids.
Aaron Twerski: These are some honorable gedolim.
Torah Issues delivered to your doorstep.
Hillary Clinton planting a kiss on the
cheek of the terrorists wife. Real nice couple they make!
The currupt Rabbonim are
leading a sinking ship!
Tzipi Livni will deliver a peacful speech
about Osama Bin Laden possibly joining forces with the U.S. Army
DIRE WARNING! We heard the news and our souls are TREMBLING!!!!!
There will be a concert taking place in the city of Manhattan in Madison Square Garden...there will be singers from a fringe element of Judaism...
Shlomo the Putz Mandel
was always a bad boy. Today he's a bad man!
Moshe Aryeh Friedman with his children
picking up an endorsement from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran; for "biggest dweeb."
Mohammed Hamid aka Osama bin LONDON
requested that child molester enablers be sent to him. " I will fix your problem" he promised.
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience.
Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Rabbi Yisroel Belsky's love child.
DNA results confirm he is the father.
I'm just a jackass!
“If people think I’m a monster just because I’m representing a monster, then there’s a flaw with the system,” says Jeffrey Schwartz.
Lipa Margulies was spotted
walking the streets on Purim.
24 Hour Crisis Line: (812) 336-0846
Sexual Abuse Facts
Rape is not motivated by lust or sexual desire. Rape is an expression of power or anger.
The effects of date rape drugs are enhanced by alcohol which can also impair your judgment and ability to respond.
Rape can happen in the context of marriage or a committed relationship.
Every 41 seconds a woman is raped in the United States.
50 % of the victims are 12-24 years of age.
60-80 % of women who are raped know their attackers.
57 % of rapes occur on a date and 60 % of sexual assaults occur in homes.
One in 10 men is raped in his lifetime.
If you were raped:
Seek help immediately
Remember, it is not your fault
Do not wash, change, shower or douche before going to the hospital
Protect Yourself Against Rape:
Watch your drink:
Keep an eye on your drink at all times
Only take drinks from a bartender or waitress
Watch out for each other:
Never leave a friend who is drunk alone
Communicate before a party that you will look out for each other's safety
If you start to feel sick or strange, tell a friend immediately! Date rape drugs can take effect in as little as 15 minutes. Trust your instincts! If you feel something is wrong, it probably is. Don't be afraid to make a scene and stand up for yourself. This could be the difference between life and death.
If you have any questions about sexual assault or need to talk about what has happened to you or a friend, call our 24-hour crisis line at (812) 336-0846.
Among victims of sexual abuse, the inability to trust is pronounced, which also contributes to secrecy and non-disclosure. Source: Courtois & Watts, 1982.
Children often fail to report because of the fear that disclosure will bring consequences even worse than being victimized again. The victim may fear consequences from the family, feel guilty for consequences to the perpetrator, and may fear subsequent retaliatory actions from the perpetrator. Sources: Berlinger & Barbieri, 1984; Groth, 1979; Swanson & Biaggio, 1985.
Victims may be embarrassed or reluctant to answer questions about the sexual activity. Source: Berlinger & Barbieri, 1984.
Victims may also have a feeling that "something is wrong with me," and that the abuse is their fault. Sources: Johnson, 1987; Tsai & Wagner, l978.
In addition to "sexual guilt," there are several other types of guilt associated with the abuse, which include feeling different from peers, harboring vengeful and angry feelings toward both parents, feeling responsible for the abuse, feeling guilty about reporting the abuse, and bringing disloyalty and disruption to the family . Any of these feelings of guilt could outweigh the decision of the victim to report, the result of which is the secret may remain intact and undisclosed. Source: Courtois & Watts, 1982; Tsai & Wagner, l978.
A child's initial denial of sexual abuse should not be the sole basis of reassurance that abuse did not occur. Virtually all investigative protocols are designed to respond to only those children who have disclosed. Policies and procedures that are geared only to those children who have disclosed fail to recognize the needs of the majority of victims. Source: Sorensen & Snow, 1991.
Study of 630 cases of alleged sexual abuse of children from 1985 through 1989: Using a subset of 116 confirmed cases, findings indicated that 79 percent of the children of the study initially denied abuse or were tentative in disclosing. Of those who did disclose, approximately three-quarters disclosed accidentally. Additionally, of those who did disclose, 22 percent eventually recanted their statements. Source: Sorensen & Snow, 1991.
Young victims may not recognize their victimization as sexual abuse. Source: Gilbert, l988.
There is the clinical assumption that children who feel compelled to keep sexual abuse a secret suffer greater psychic distress than victims who disclose the secret and receive assistance and support. Source: Finkelhor & Browne, 1986.
Early identification of sexual abuse victims appears to be crucial to the reduction of suffering of abused youth and to the establishment of support systems for assistance in pursuing appropriate psychological development and healthier adult functioning . As long as disclosure continues to be a problem for young victims, then fear, suffering, and psychological distress will, like the secret, remain with the victim. Sources: Bagley, 1992; Bagley, 1991; Finkelhor et al. 1990; Whitlock & Gillman, 1989.>
Frankie Lee Jones leaves the Angelina County Courthouse Thursday after a jury sentenced him to
45 years in prison for molesting a 6-year-old girl. He is required to serve half that sentence before eligible for parole.
Richard Daniel Vorreyer has been charged
with child molestation and aggravated sexual battery.
The charges against Todd Weiss, 37
molested a child who was 3 years old at the time and raped a child who was 10 years old at the time.
An ordained minister has been arrested on charges of sex offense and child abuse
Montgomery County detectives had Timothy Chun-Chock Mann, 47, arrested in Hoover, Ala
Woman Charged In Sex Abuse Case
she induced a 15-year-old male to engage in homosexual activity
This 21-year-old man is accused of molesting his ex-girlfriend’s daughter
and infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease
Bexley police have issued an arrest warrant for 41-year-old Becky Jo Tatum
suspected sexual offender -- who is accused of assaulting a teenage girl. Police say they believe there could be more victims.
Yudi Kolko taking his first graders
on a school trip to watch the show.
Young Israel of Scarsdale Rabbi Jacob S. Rubenstein and his wife Deborah died in a fatal fire
Rubenstein, 58, was a prominent rabbi in the world of modern Orthodox Judaism. From 1997 to 1999, he served as president of the Rabbinical Council of America, the largest group of Orthodox rabbis in the country.
Mazal Tov to Edner Parker
She is 115 years old.
( A look into the future) A crystal skull belonging to "Rabbi" Yaakov Mandel the sadist
X-RAYS and DNA sampings have confirmed he is indeed a sick putz just like his older brother shloime.
416 children taken from a polygamist sect
amid allegations of widespread sexual and physical abuse
charged with official misconduct and sex abuse for alleged relationships with two female students
Mount Angel police say the 35-year-old Molan had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old and a 14-year-old.
Father John Benedict Corrigan, 71
pleaded guilty to seven counts of indecent assault on boys aged between eight and 13, between 1967 and 1972.
Leopard -This cat, in its melanistic color phase, is often mistakenly referred to
as a black panther.This species has been (and is still) illegally hunted throughout its range for sport, and for its fur.
only the strong survive
A Chinese man carrying his mother on his back in a basket takes a rest on a fallen rock following Monday's powerful earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan province
Software engineer Rex Jameson stretches in a robotic soldier suit being made for the U.S. Army
The suit can multiply its wearer's strength and endurance as many as 20 times, with relatively little loss of agility
At the Agudah Convention men's bathroom
"Need Toilet Paper " scrawled on the wall. That's one way to get the cleaning staff's attention.
pandas eat food at the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center
Three of ten pandas that went missing after the May 12 earthquake have not been found.
casualties of Rabbinical corruption demand to know...
Why have you failed us so???
Your Opportunity To Save Children
Just like this one has arrived
Child Molestation and Public Health
Is child molestation a public health problem? It qualifies on two counts: damage to health and numbers of victims. Sexually abusing a child endangers that child's physical and emotional health. And, unfortunately, the number of victimized children is in the millions.
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