Friday, October 29, 2010

90% of all children sexually assaulted by someone they know and trust



By Samuel Newhouse
Brooklyn Daily Eagle JAY STREET — An Orthodox Jewish child molester who was sentenced to a maximum of 30 years earlier this year appeared in Brooklyn Supreme Court Wednesday for a pretrial hearing in yet another case of alleged sexual abuse of a minor.
Baruch Lebovits, 59, of Borough Park, who was convicted of sexually molesting a teenager in his community, appeared before Kings County Supreme Court Justice Patricia Di Mango, the same Brooklyn judge who sentenced him in April to 10 2/3 to 32 years in prison.
Justice Di Mango gave Lebovits the maximum sentence for each of eight counts of abusing a 16-year-old Borough Park resident, whom Lebovits lured on several occasions in 2004 and 2005 to his silver Toyota for “driving lessons” before performing oral sex on the victim, who was a friend of Lebovits’ son.
Now Lebovits has at least one more active sexual abuse case and could face even more indictments, as several alleged victims came forward after Lebovits was sentenced. Sources in law enforcement have called the crimes Lebovits has been charged with “the tip of the iceberg.”
One alleged victim said Lebovits fondled him in a mikvah or ritual bath while the victim was a teen, but made the claim after being arrested himself for allegedly fondling a 12-year-old in a mikvah, according to the Daily News.
Despite these allegations, Lebovits, a cantor (traditional Jewish singer) and a local teacher, still has some supporters in the community. But the father of the victim whose testimony led to Lebovits’ April sentence has called Lebovits a “grand-molester.”

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JAMAICA:PUBLIC OUTRAGE, EXPOSE MOLESTERS NOW!

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MARY CLARKE, Children’s Advocate, on Wednesday appealed to members of the public not to shield child abusers. She made the appeal while addressing the launch of the child abuse prevention campaign at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital. She said her office was concerned that children who are to appear before the courts as victims of rape and carnal abuse often miss court dates.
“When the summons are to be served for them to come to court, they cannot be found. Mother’s don’t know, guardians don’t know, community members don’t know, and after the date of the case, the child reappears,” she said.
“I am calling on you today to be responsible citizens - that is being very irresponsible. You are protecting abusers, you are helping no one.”
SIMILAR APPEAL
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Public Defender, Howard Hamilton, also made a similar appeal. He said men who have sex with one-month-old babies and young children because they believe that they can be cured from a sexually transferred disease should cease this atrocity. “This can no longer continue, men cannot be allowed to go to a four-month-old infant, so let this be a turning point in Jamaica,” he said.
Mrs. Clarke said since the beginning of the year, there were 80 cases of sexual and physical abuse cases reported at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital. Of this number, 14 could not be traced because wrong addresses were given.
“Parents, guardians, caregivers, you have a responsibility for your children. You must give the correct addresses and phone numbers. Why are you concealing the children who need the psycho-social support to help them get over the hurt that they have felt, why? Why are you hiding the abusers?” she asked.
She said of the 14, five were assaulted and nine were physically injured. She said during last year, there were 8,275 victims of major crimes. Of this number, 24 per cent were children under 14 years old.
Rose Robinson-Hall, chairman and coordinator of the Child Abuse Mitigation Project at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital, told The Gleaner that the child abuse campaign would involve in-house training of staff to recognise behaviours that are abusive and to be able to respond appropriately to these cases. 

AWARENESS IS YOUR BEST DEFENSE

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BECOME A WATCHDOG 
“AWARENESS IF YOUR BEST DEFENSE” 
OVER HALF A MILLION SEXUAL PREDATORS LIVING IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES
SEXUAL ABUSE BEFORE 18TH BIRTHDAY IS A REALITY FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
  • 1 in 5 girls will be sexually assaulted before 18
  • 1 in 6 boys will be sexually assaulted before 18
  • 1 in 5 children propositioned on the Internet
  • 90% of all children sexually assaulted by someone they know and trust

According to a National Institute of Justice study done in 1996, child sexual abuse costs America $23 billion.
  • Victims of child sexual abuse generally spend more on psychiatric care services throughout their lives
  • More is spent on special educational services.
  • The loss in potential and productivity, and these expenses would not be necessary if not for sexual abuse and its financial drain to each and everyone of us
A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY MAY BE NO FRIEND AT ALL
  • 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused or sexually assaulted by their 18th birthday
  • The perpertrators aren’t “dirty old men hiding in the bushes” but family members
For More Information http://www.familywatchdog.us

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TWENTY-FOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN THE AREA OF CHILD ABUSE
  1. What constitutes child abuse and neglect?
  2. Who has to report child abuse and neglect?
  3. If I report, am I breaking confidentiality?
  4. Under what circumstances do I have a duty to report child abuse?
  5. How do I report? and What information am I required to disclose in a child abuse report?
  6. Will I get in trouble if I do not report child abuse as required under laws of my state?
  7. Will I get in trouble if I do report? and Can I be sued by the person I report?
  8. Do I have to report every instance of child abuse?
  9. Do I have to report if the suspected abuser is in treatment or if I believe the reporting would do more harm than good?
  10. What will be the response to my report?
  11. Are there issues I should consider for disclosure?
  12. How shall I handle a child’s disclosure of abuse by a parent?
  13. How shall I handle a child’s disclosure of abuse by a non-family member?
  14. What are some possible effects for the child, the family, and treatment when a disclosure or report are made?
  15. What are possible beneficial effects of reporting for the child and family?
  16. What are some of the possible personal issues I should be aware of in handling disclosure and reporting?
  17. What are the characteristics and symptoms of a child who has been abused?
  18. How do I recognize and verify what abuse had occurred?
  19. Are there psychological measures to assist in evaluations of victims of child abuse?
  20. What special considerations are there in the assessment of victims of child abuse?
  21. What are the emotional demands of providing intervention services to victims of child abuse?
  22. What roles can I play in supporting and providing intervention services to the victims of child abuse?
  23. How do I provide treatment to a child who has been abused?
  24. What are the therapeutic issues, reasonable goals, and special considerations when providing treatment to a child who has been abused?
From The American Psychological Association’s (APA, 1995) Committee on Professional Practice and Standards
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EXPOSE THE PERP: THE AFTERMATH

As you heal from child sexual abuse and talk more about the trauma, you will become more comfortable with what you tell others, especially family members.
The details you share of the abuse is up to you, and you can choose to share what you are confident about. Usually a survivor will share with a family member you are most comfortable with, because you will receive various responses from family.
Usually a survivor will tell a family member what took place and immediately the family member will want to know what exactly happened between you and perpertrator. Then after the family member has time to absorb the information they will want to talk more about the perpertrator.
Family members will express different emotions,and ask all sorts of questions. Believe it or not this communication will help make a better relationship between family members, because communication is taking place and that is one of the key steps to healing.
Now as a survivor you have the option to answer and not answer questions, the ones that make you uncomfortable, you need to say that you cannot answer. As a general rule, your privacy and boundaries are important here.
Each time your family asks questions about the abuse, be prepared for different reactions, be thoughtful of your family’s emotions now, because these emotions will affect you too. As these discussions take place, a survivor can reexperience thoughts about the sexual abuse that they resolved. This is normal part of what happens when telling the family what happened.
Please be prepared that not all family members will believe what you have to say about the perpertrator, you may feel angry with family for this, even sad, but it is important that you know the truth, and again ” the truth shall set you free”, and its not about changing anyone else but changing and healing yourself.. As you heal you will become better at setting boundaries, and developing healthy relationships, promoting safety and trust in your life. Family members who respect and trust you are those you keep close to you. To avoid unstable relationship there must be trust, not chaos, crisis and inconsistency, and as a survivor we want to definelty avoid this in our lives.
Here are few ideas:
Establishing Boundaries:
No one touches you without your permission and consent, and you touch no one without their persmission and consent.
Choose who you want to be sexual with, some one who is safe and you feel comfortable and who you have a reciprocity in terms of respect, love and care.
Trust is conditional; people earn trust, as well they earn yours. There are different levels of trust for different people.
Do not tolerate disrespectful behavior and speak up when it happens.
Honor your feelings and those of others
Stand up for your self and believe in you right to do so.
Give yourself permission to be who you are and to try new experiences
Affirm your life today, and acknowledge the good that exist in your life today
Take time for yourself and not allow others to intrude on your time. Say no and do not feel guilty.
Praise yourself often.
Excerpts from Healing from the Trauma of Sexual abuse by Karen Duncan.
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CONFRONTING ABUSE IN THE ORTHODOX COMMUNITY
(This article first appeared in NEFESH)
By Rabbi Yosef Blau
It is no longer possible to ignore the tragic reality that sexual, physical and emotional
abuse exists within the Orthodox community. Recent revelations about rabbis and
teachers abusing adolescents, often continuing to abuse for decades, dramatically remind
us that our existing mechanisms are failing to deal with the problem. I am not aware of
any statistics which clarify whether the numbers of offenders is substantial, but even a
small number can traumatize hundreds of victims.
The full measure of the horrendous nature of abuse is not always apparent from a
technical halakhic perspective. Two teenagers touching each other inappropriately are
guilty of the same sin as a forty-year old rabbi touching a thirteen- year old female
student. We intuitively recognize that the rabbi has used his position as an authority
figure to manipulate a vulnerable child, though she is an adult according to halakha. A
pedophile who abuses minors even if he gets their approval is halakhicly a rapist but not
if he does the same with an adolescent boy or girl.
It is even more difficult to pinpoint the sin when dealing with emotional abuse and
manipulation. While one can make similar technical arguments in other areas of halakha,
its significance in this context is its use as cover for the many who do not want to deal
with the full implications of confronting rabbinical abuse. Not wanting to see themselves
as lacking sympathy for victims, people can claim to be concerned about preserving
halkhic standards. How rare it is to have two witnesses who saw the abuse.
Even when the pattern of abuse is clear the question remains how to effectively deal with
the abuser in a way that at least limits his ability to move elsewhere and continue to abuse
new people. Schools fire abusive teachers who then move to another community and
start teaching (and abusing) in the new yeshiva. Going public is seen as causing a chilul
Hashem and going to secular authorities as mesira.
Virtually all poskim agree that if there is danger to future victims then there is no
halakhic issue of mesira but practically the taboo of mesira remains. Victims are
discouraged from coming forward on other grounds as well. It will hurt potential
shidduchim, not only for the victim but for members of his family as well. Compassion
is expressed for the reputations of members of the abuser’s family as well. The
probability that the family members may have suffered abuse themselves and suffer from
being in ongoing contact with the abuser, is not understood.
Taking the accusation to a Beis Din unfortunately is rarely effective. Few rabbis have
any training in recognizing abuse and the rabbinical courts have no investigative arm.
Some abusers are charismatic leaders and have followers who will say whatever they ask
them to say. Perjury to a Beis Din is not punished and in many cases the witness, in
support of his mentor, has no difficulty with distorting what occurred. The cultic element
in the guru’s leadership is hard for us to acknowledge. A rabbi promoting Judaism is
seen as incapable of being a cult leader.
Newspapers, particularly Jewish newspapers are assumed to be anti-Orthodox. Speaking
to them is almost the act of a traitor. Yet at the present time the media has played a
primary role in the increased awareness of this problem and an abuser whose name that
has appeared in the media is unlikely to be hired by a new school or youth movement.
Two recent cases point to differing approaches now being used. In one story from Israel
a commission including a rabbi, a psychologist and a judge evaluated allegations and the
accused was fired from his teaching position. He hired a lawyer and is fighting for
reinstatement. The Israeli media have picked up the story. A recent article in Maariv
broadened the discussion to quote varying views about rabbis counseling married women.
The other case involved allegations that had been investigated twenty years ago and a
resulting agreement that an individual would leave Jewish education, which was not
effectively enforced. After two decades it became difficult to reconstruct what had
occurred. Supporters of the accused spoke freely to the media while victims used
pseudonyms. New allegations surfaced and a major expose appeared in the papers and a
new Beit Din was formed to decide how to deal with the accusations. While no formal
announcement has been made, their apparent decision was to send the case to a religious
court in Israel that will deal with the charges.
Despite growing awareness and concern no consensus has yet emerged. Rabbis are not
trained to recognize abuse nor given an approach to aid them in responding when they
realize that it is occurring. Principals are not equipped to respond to accusations against
teachers in their schools. Rabbinical organizations do not have rules of appropriate
conduct. Accused abusers retain memberships in these organizations without any process
to remove their names.
Our community has not been educated to recognize abuse nor to appreciate the ongoing
trauma of victims. Headlines in newspapers are not effective educational tools. Often
the response is to express anger at the paper and then ignore the abuse. Until the
mentality of the community changes little progress will be made.
Even if a method will be developed to get rabbinical approval for victims to go to the
police much of the problem will remain. Not every manifestation of abuse involves
criminal behavior. “Rabbis” who seduce women as part of outreach or marital therapy
are not guilty of a punishable offence. Proper utilization of secular authorities is a
necessary step but clearly not a total solution.
In Chicago, after there were a number of serious incidents, a special Beit Din, whose
members are respected across the Orthodox spectrum, was established to deal with
accusations of abuse. Similar rabbinical courts in other major cities, whose judges would
be trained to recognize abuse and would have appropriate mental health professionals as
consultants, should be introduced. Creating special rabbinical courts is a powerful
statement that a serious problem needs to be addressed.
Nefesh professionals have a critical role to play in educating the Orthodox community,
in treating and supporting victims and in serving as consultants for schools and
organizations. Only people who are trained can lead a systematic campaign explaining
the nature of abuse and the need to confront it openly. Stigma has to be removed from
victims. Invariably when the identity of an abuser is revealed the response of far too
many is “We have known that for years.” Enabling abusers to continue, covering their
crimes to protect the image of the community, contribute to innocents being traumatized.
Judith Herman in her book on trauma points out that both the abuser and the victims turn
to others for support. The victim needs action while the abuser only asks for our silence.
It is time to stop the silence. The true chilul Hashem is that we allow victims to continue
to suffer in order to preserve our community’s image. 

42 comments:

Agudath Israel Senior Citizens Division said...

OTTAWA — A church sex abuse lawsuit in Quebec dating back nearly 30 years will go ahead after a Supreme Court ruling Friday.

Shirley Christensen, 37, of Quebec City applied to sue the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec in 2007.

Christensen was seeking $250,000 in damages for sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of Paul-Henri Lachance between 1979 and 1981. Lachance, now 79, pleaded guilty in 2009 and was handed an 18-month sentence.

Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeals dismissed the lawsuit because of an article in the Quebec Civil Code that places a three-year statute of limitations on civil lawsuits.

In her court filings, Christensen claimed to have suffered trauma in 2006 that triggered the memories of the sex abuse. The Supreme Court didn't strike down the statute of limitations on Quebec lawsuits but it told the lower courts to hear the case and consider whether the time limit on this lawsuit should have started in 2006.

Eli said...

Rabbi Yosef Blau is a role model on ethics and values. Thank you for posting his article.

Police Search For Possible Serial Kidnapper, Molester said...

http://www.koco.com/mostpopular/25594544/detail.html

Oklahoma City police said they are searching for a possible serial kidnapper and child molester.

Officers said the man targets young girls walking to and from school, puts a gun to their head and forces them into his car.

Officers said after he abducts the girls, he sexually assaults them, then releases them.

The first abduction happened in April near Northwest 16th Street at North Klein Avenue, officers said

Police said the second abduction happened in September near Southwest 59th Street at South Blackwelder Avenue.

In the second abduction, police said an 11-year-old told police she was walking to Thomas Jefferson Middle School.

Police said when she passed a car wash, the man jumped out, put a gun to her head then forced her into his car.

The most recent abduction happened on Thursday, according to investigators.

Officers said a 12-year-old girl was walking to Taft Middle School when the man abducted her.

Officers said the man is described as a white male, 6 feet 2 inches tall, slender build, scar on his left cheek and possibly a mark on his upper and lower lip with a red complexion.

Officers said the man often wears a gray hooded sweatshirt or baseball cap and sunglasses.

The car the man drives was described as a silver or gray four-door car with gray interior.

Oklahoma City police have set up a special tip line for this case. If you have information, you are asked to call 405-297-1500.

Rabbi Avi Shafran said...

Just because A.S. and I coincidentally share the same initials, in no way is it indicative of my philosophy. Lest I lead Agudath Israel of America astray, no more will I divulge regarding which candidates we support regardless of their stance on gay marriage and/or anything contrary to what the Torah states.
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YWN MAILBAG: Why Is Hamodia Promoting Intermarriage?
(Monday, November 1st, 2010)

Sounds crazy, right? Hamodia, the newspaper of “Torah Jewry,” promoting intermarriage, how can that be?!?!? As much as it pains me to write this letter, I feel that I have an obligation to do so. You see, I am a Rebbe in yeshiva. I spend my life trying to instill in my talmidim yiras shomayim. I don’t make a lot of money and as you can see from this letter; my English is okay, but not great. However, every week I scrape a couple of dollars together to buy a weekly edition of Hamodia. Why? Because Hamodia promises me that it is a quality newspaper that only brings a Torah hashkofah into my home. Well, I won’t be fooled by that false promise again.

Let me explain. This week, as I was reading my copy of Hamodia and as my older son was enjoying the magazine, I came across a photo announcing “Yeshivos Thank Assemblyman,” where three prominent rabbonim were photographed supporting Steven Cymbrowitz – a renowned yid Assemblyman who is now intermarried to a Hispanic Catholic woman. If that wasn’t bad enough, a few pages later Hamodia’s star interviewer – Yosef Rappaport – spent a full page interviewing Anthony Weiner, another renowned yid Congressman who is now intermarried to a Muslim Arab woman.

So let me get this straight: chas v’shalom Hamodia should ever show a picture of a woman, even a little girl, but they will promote politicians who have intermarried? Hey, you’ll tell me, they have NO CHOICE. After all, these are the politicians we are stuck with. Normally you may be right. However, this is the final newspaper before Election Day and both of these politicians are being challenged by better candidates. Cymbrowitz has a frum yungerman running against him – Yosef Hayon and Weiner has a conservative Republican running against him – Bob Turner. So why not profile them instead?
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Even worse, standing in the Hamodia picture with Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz were three prominent members from our community.

Why on earth would three prominent rabbonim stand with a man who has intermarried in the heart of our frum community? What kind of message does it send to their talmidim that when a yid becomes a successful elected official the first thing the yid does is go and marry a shiksa?

If that wasn’t outrageous enough, Hamodia played into the propaganda by allowing Congressman Anthony Weiner, who is still in his shona rishona with his Muslim Arab wife, to be photographed with a yarmulke on at the Hamodia offices. In my yeshiva we have an apt description for this: “Kusher Chazer Feesel.” And please spare me about him NOT being Jewish. One of the parents in my yeshiva has known Weiner since he was a kid. I’m told definitively that both of his parents are 100% Jewish (apparently they have mezuzah’s all over their home, made a bar-mitvzah for all of their kids and even sat shiva, nebach, for one of their sons who died at an early age).

Enough is enough. Hamodia owes all of us an apology. Until they publicly apologize, I won’t buy another Hamodia and encourage you to do the same. From now on it’s only Yated Ne’eman in my home.

Sincerely,

A.S.

Rabbi A.S. is a Rebbe in a prominent yeshiva in Brooklyn and has asked YWN to refer to him only by his initials. The views expressed in this letter are solely of A.S. and are not necessarily those of Yeshiva World News.

Rabbi Milton Balkany said...

I plead STUPID! What part of STUPID don't you get, STUPID?

A Brooklyn rabbi who blackmailed a hedge fund (we suspected had blackmailed Steve Cohen and SAC Capital back in February - turns out we were right) plead guilty yesterday.

His lawyer says the rabbi, Milton Balkany, blackmailed Steve Cohen because he had heard the founder of SAC Capital was "Jewish and ... rich."

Well he got that right, so he can't be so dumb, but he's pleading that his only error was making a stupid mistake.

Aiding this defense, slightly, we guess, is the fact that he was blackmailing Cohen in order to raise money for two Brooklyn schools, or so he says.

But we're not too sure how seriously we can take what he says after his lawyer made this defense.

His lawyer's exact words were, "He merely engaged in a stupid plan... You want to find him guilty for using bad judgment? For that, we plead guilty today."

Seriously, rabbi?

Aren't all crimes exercises in bad judgment that deserve punishment?

Maybe that stupid defense seomwhat helps the rabbi's case, probably. Because it's idiotic. And so could the rabbi's convuluted blackmail scheme.

This winter, the rabbi told the hedge fund that someone he was counseling knew about an instance of SAC Capital's insider trading.

We'll keep quiet, the rabbi told SAC, if you pay. The hedge fund making $2 million donations to two Brooklyn schools, the Bais Yaakov school (turns out Balkany is the dean) and another school, would seal the deal.

Apparently Balkany kept going back to negociate with SAC, which was working with the FBI at this point, and he kept talking and digging himself deeper into a hole of obvious guilt.

But pleading naivete didn't help Bonnie Jean Hoxie, who might be an even more sympathetic character because she doesn't seem real. She seems like a Disney Character.


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FrontPoint said...

Rabbi in extortion case talked about FrontPoint

* Rabbi Balkany recorded talking about wrongful trading

* Balkany claimed he knew about FrontPoint's Skowron

* Skowron on leave from FrontPoint following insider case

* Balkany on trial for extorting money from SAC's Cohen

* Prosecutors say no evidence Cohen did anything wrong

By Matthew Goldstein

NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The news that hedge fund FrontPoint Partners may have traded on inside information was made public on Tuesday, but the allegation quietly first appeared in the court record of an unrelated criminal case involving a Brooklyn, New York, rabbi charged with extortion.

Federal prosecutors in New York on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint accusing French doctor Yves Benhamou of giving inside information to a hedge fund that sources identified on Tuesday as FrontPoint. [ID:nN02222004]

The hedge fund late Tuesday issued a statement saying it is cooperating with authorities and has put one of its top healthcare managers, Chip Skowron, on leave. An attorney for Benhamou, the only person charged in the investigation, declined to comment.

Allegations of potential improper trading by Skowron and FrontPoint earlier surfaced in a separate criminal proceeding, in which Rabbi Milton Balkany is charged with trying to extort money from hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen.

The rabbi made his claims about improper trading by Skowron and FrontPoint in telephone calls with a federal investigator who was looking into the allegation that Balkany was trying to extort money from Cohen, who prosecutors said did nothing wrong.

In transcripts of the phone calls, Balkany tells a federal investigator that he has heard FrontPoint's Skowron sometimes received advance tips on the federal approval process for new drugs.

"This Skowron not only did it for himself, he sold it to others," Balkany told a federal investigator, according to a transcript of one of the taped phone calls.

The conversations were recorded in January by a federal investigator. Last week federal prosecutors included transcripts of those phone calls in a filing submitted to the court. Balkany's trial began on Monday.

It's not clear how Balkany, who is not known to have any hedge fund affiliations, would have been in a position to know about Skowron. While Skowron is well known in the world of healthcare hedge fund investing, he is hardly a household name and not nearly as famous as Cohen.

Skowron, who lives in Cos Cobb, Connecticut, could not be reached for comment.

Bill Singer, a securities attorney, said this may be a case where Balkany tried to piece together information and rumors he had heard.

"The street is so filled with rumors that sometimes you become your own worst enemy by piecing together a bunch of information and then pretending you have inside information," said Singer, commenting on the the confluence of two separate criminal cases.

In February, federal prosecutors charged Balkany with trying to extort $4 million from Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital Management, a $12 billion hedge fund in Stamford, Connecticut.

Prosecutors contend Balkany told Cohen's lawyers that if the manager paid the money, he would work to keep a person who knew about insider trading at SAC Capital from talking.

Shatnez Checker and Child Molester, Rabbi Yehuda Nussbaum from YOB said...

Tell me if the picture on this post is really some yid doing metzitza b'peh?

"Rabbi" Shloime Mandel said...

Could we stop talking about this molesting shtus. Get over it, "victims."

My understanding it is memeila not a big deal at all.

Wikipedia said...

A 2002 study by the United States Department of Justice indicated that recidivism rates among sex offenders was 5.3%; that is, 5.3% of released sex offenders were later arrested for another sex crime. The same study mentioned that 68% of released non-sex offenders were rearrested for any crime (both sex and non-sex offenses), while 43% of the released sex offenders were rearrested for any crime (and 24% reconvicted).[2]

A collection of official studies spanning the years 1983 to 2010 across all 50 states and the federal government has been assembled [3]. This URL provides a spreadsheet and .zip file containing sources supporting the DOJ study, where the average recidivism of sex offenders committing new sex crimes since 1983 is approximately 9%, compared to the 42% average recidivism rate for all felony offenders committing any new felony offense.

New York's Sex Offender Registry said...

http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/nsor/

Sex Offender Management

DCJS is the state agency responsible for maintaining New York's Sex Offender Registry, which provides New Yorkers information about sex offenders living in their communities.

There are three levels of sex offenders – Level 1 (low risk), Level 2 (medium risk) and Level 3 (high risk).

By law, only Level 2 and Level 3 sex offenders are listed on this site.

200 male survivors of childhood sexual abuse said...

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20101105/oprah-male-child-sex-abuse-victims-101105/

In a bid to shatter a pervasive stereotype, Oprah Winfrey's regular studio audience of female fans is being replaced today, by 200 male survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

For the first episode in a two-part series on the subject, Oprah was the only woman amongst the sea of men.

As the episode opens, the men all stand silently clutching photos of themselves taken at the approximate age they were abused as children. Sudbury, Ont.-native Robert Berube was one of 30 Canadian men who took part in the program.

"I think what really got to us was Oprah was the only woman, and the tears started coming down so it was pretty dramatic in a sense and very, very touching," Berube told CTV's Canada AM in an interview from London, Ont. Friday morning.

Oprah Winfrey has often spoken about her own experience of childhood sexual abuse that began when she was just nine years old.

Berube, 55, went public with his history of abuse in 2005, with claims he had been abused by his childhood parish priest Father Jean-Claude Etienne. The abuse, Berube said, began when he was just 13 and continued for the next 3 1/2 years. Etienne died in 1999.

Berube and another man sued the diocese and ultimately won a settlement from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie in 2008.

In the years since, Berube resolutely abandoned his 30-year silence on the subject to become an ardent activist for the rights of men who suffered childhood sexual abuse.

He now runs a Facebook site as well as a support group, both of which are called Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Violence.

"After I had a breakdown and depression I went public... and sort of became a militant," Berube said, explaining he knows of at least ten other men who survived abuse at the same hand he did. Another five took their own lives.

"It's pretty sad because this pedophile priest destroyed lives where people commit suicide, but also destroyed the lives of all the other boys that he abused," the retired school principal said.

Recalling his experience at the Oprah taping in Chicago last month, Berube was surprised how affected he was when he walked into the studio and saw his childhood photo was one of a handful that had been enlarged and prominently displayed behind the show's famous host.

"When I saw that I was really surprised, it really touched me. I said 'Oh my God, the kid's here now'," Berube said, adding that he later teased his wife about the experience. "I said I went to Chicago and got my inner child back."

More than 10,000 applied to be part of the shows Oprah calls "two of the most phenomenal" she's ever produced.

The first episode, featuring the all-male audience, filmmaker Tyler Perry and a psychologist who works with male sexual abuse survivors, airs on CTV Friday afternoon. The next episode, which will focus on the impact of abuse on victims' relationships with spouses, partners and girlfriends, will be broadcast at the same time next Friday, November 12.

With files from CTV's Canada AM and The Associated Press

Sex offender Yehuda Nussbaum confronted on Opera said...

Watch video -

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20101105/oprah-male-child-sex-abuse-victims-101105/

In a bid to shatter a pervasive stereotype, Oprah Winfrey's regular studio audience of female fans is being replaced today, by 200 male survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

For the first episode in a two-part series on the subject, Oprah was the only woman amongst the sea of men.

As the episode opens, the men all stand silently clutching photos of themselves taken at the approximate age they were abused as children. Sudbury, Ont.-native Robert Berube was one of 30 Canadian men who took part in the program.

"I think what really got to us was Oprah was the only woman, and the tears started coming down so it was pretty dramatic in a sense and very, very touching," Berube told CTV's Canada AM in an interview from London, Ont. Friday morning.

Oprah Winfrey has often spoken about her own experience of childhood sexual abuse that began when she was just nine years old.

Berube, 55, went public with his history of abuse in 2005, with claims he had been abused by his childhood parish priest Father Jean-Claude Etienne. The abuse, Berube said, began when he was just 13 and continued for the next 3 1/2 years. Etienne died in 1999.

Berube and another man sued the diocese and ultimately won a settlement from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie in 2008.

In the years since, Berube resolutely abandoned his 30-year silence on the subject to become an ardent activist for the rights of men who suffered childhood sexual abuse.

He now runs a Facebook site as well as a support group, both of which are called Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Violence.

"After I had a breakdown and depression I went public... and sort of became a militant," Berube said, explaining he knows of at least ten other men who survived abuse at the same hand he did. Another five took their own lives.

"It's pretty sad because this pedophile priest destroyed lives where people commit suicide, but also destroyed the lives of all the other boys that he abused," the retired school principal said.

Recalling his experience at the Oprah taping in Chicago last month, Berube was surprised how affected he was when he walked into the studio and saw his childhood photo was one of a handful that had been enlarged and prominently displayed behind the show's famous host.

"When I saw that I was really surprised, it really touched me. I said 'Oh my God, the kid's here now'," Berube said, adding that he later teased his wife about the experience. "I said I went to Chicago and got my inner child back."

More than 10,000 applied to be part of the shows Oprah calls "two of the most phenomenal" she's ever produced.

The first episode, featuring the all-male audience, filmmaker Tyler Perry and a psychologist who works with male sexual abuse survivors, airs on CTV Friday afternoon. The next episode, which will focus on the impact of abuse on victims' relationships with spouses, partners and girlfriends, will be broadcast at the same time next Friday, November 12.

With files from CTV's Canada AM and The Associated Press

Sex offender Yehuda Nussbaum confronted on Opera said...

Watch video -

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20101105/oprah-male-child-sex-abuse-victims-101105/

In a bid to shatter a pervasive stereotype, Oprah Winfrey's regular studio audience of female fans is being replaced today, by 200 male survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

For the first episode in a two-part series on the subject, Oprah was the only woman amongst the sea of men.

As the episode opens, the men all stand silently clutching photos of themselves taken at the approximate age they were abused as children. Sudbury, Ont.-native Robert Berube was one of 30 Canadian men who took part in the program.

"I think what really got to us was Oprah was the only woman, and the tears started coming down so it was pretty dramatic in a sense and very, very touching," Berube told CTV's Canada AM in an interview from London, Ont. Friday morning.

Oprah Winfrey has often spoken about her own experience of childhood sexual abuse that began when she was just nine years old.

Berube, 55, went public with his history of abuse in 2005, with claims he had been abused by his childhood parish priest Father Jean-Claude Etienne. The abuse, Berube said, began when he was just 13 and continued for the next 3 1/2 years. Etienne died in 1999.

Berube and another man sued the diocese and ultimately won a settlement from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie in 2008.

In the years since, Berube resolutely abandoned his 30-year silence on the subject to become an ardent activist for the rights of men who suffered childhood sexual abuse.

He now runs a Facebook site as well as a support group, both of which are called Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Violence.

"After I had a breakdown and depression I went public... and sort of became a militant," Berube said, explaining he knows of at least ten other men who survived abuse at the same hand he did. Another five took their own lives.

"It's pretty sad because this pedophile priest destroyed lives where people commit suicide, but also destroyed the lives of all the other boys that he abused," the retired school principal said.

Recalling his experience at the Oprah taping in Chicago last month, Berube was surprised how affected he was when he walked into the studio and saw his childhood photo was one of a handful that had been enlarged and prominently displayed behind the show's famous host.

"When I saw that I was really surprised, it really touched me. I said 'Oh my God, the kid's here now'," Berube said, adding that he later teased his wife about the experience. "I said I went to Chicago and got my inner child back."

More than 10,000 applied to be part of the shows Oprah calls "two of the most phenomenal" she's ever produced.

The first episode, featuring the all-male audience, filmmaker Tyler Perry and a psychologist who works with male sexual abuse survivors, airs on CTV Friday afternoon. The next episode, which will focus on the impact of abuse on victims' relationships with spouses, partners and girlfriends, will be broadcast at the same time next Friday, November 12.

With files from CTV's Canada AM and The Associated Press

Rabbi Ephrayim Byrks said...

The bottom line is nobody can prove that I am a sex offender, or that I was to blame for one of my victims committing suicide. Canadian law enforcement never could pin anything on me.

"It's pretty sad because this pedophile priest destroyed lives where people commit suicide, but also destroyed the lives of all the other boys that he abused," the retired school principal said.

Abe said...

It is remarkable how sex offenders (Rabbonim) in Yeshivos thrive due to the unconditional support of their employers. Count Yeshiva of Brooklyn's Shlomo Mandel as one of these rapists of the soul. Don't ask me how they have no shame, but they just don't, and this is appalling and wrong. Exposemolestes, keep the faith. Just as the SOL was amended in the states of DE, CA to punish perpetrators who hide behind it, so too, it will come to fruition in NYS. When it does, we will hold hands and sing with joy.

(Exposemolesters - I just sent you an email).

Avi. L. Shafran said...

Some Rabbi, who shall remain unnamed, agrees with me that people such as Puja Hall are nothing more than pornographers.

Click Here

Rabbi Lipa Margulies said...

Byrks is a ne'eman b'yisroel.If hee vood hev vork for toireh temima i vood stend bey him in de seame vey i oichet getin far yudel kolko.

Steinsaltz makes history said...

Steinsaltz completes Hebrew translation of the Talmud
The completion of this feat was marked on Sunday with the Global Day of Jewish learning.
By Haaretz Service

Forty-five years after beginning his monumental quest to translate the Babylonian Talmud into from its archaic Aramaic into contemporary Hebrew, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has completed the task.

The completion of this feat was marked on Sunday with the Global Day of Jewish learning.

The six-continent event kicked off with a life broadcast of Steinsaltz completing the final words of the translation.

Steinsaltz began the project in 1965 at the age of 27, striving to make the Talmud more readable for the Jewish public.

His text puts vowels on the Aramaic words and his translation includes extensive commentary.

disturbing said...

Randall Hoffman pleads not guilty to 52 sex charges

JENNY MICHAEL, Bismarck Tribune

Former police chief and judge Randall Hoffman has pleaded not guilty to 52 charges related to allegations he molested and attempted to rape a minor girl.

Hoffman, 55, pleaded not guilty to continuous sexual abuse of a child, attempted gross sexual imposition and 50 counts of corruption or solicitation of a minor on Monday, Grant County State’s Attorney Jim Vukelic said.

Hoffman had been the police chief of Elgin at the time of his September arrest in the case. A criminal complaint in the case accuses Hoffman of having sexual contact with the girl beginning in 2005, when she was 12 or 13 years old. It alleges that Hoffman engaged in at least 50 sexual acts with the girl, who is now 17, then attempted to rape her. Vukelic said the matter was reported on Sept. 22 after the girl resisted Hoffman.

Vukelic said Hoffman had a mental evaluation on Thursday, but the prosecutor did not know the results of the evaluation.

Besides being the former police chief in Elgin and the only police officer in town, Hoffman is a former district court judge in Jamestown. In 1999, he was suspended from the judge post for stalking and harassing his ex-wife. His law license was suspended in 2003 for misconduct in custody proceedings between his then-fiance and her ex-boyfriend.

Hoffman remains in the custody of the Mercer County Jail, in Stanton, in lieu of $500,000 cash bond. Hoffman’s attorney, Irv Nodland, moved to reduce Hoffman’s bond, but South Central District Judge Robert Wefald denied the request.

The next stage in the proceedings is a pretrial conference, scheduled for Dec. 13, Vukelic said.

(Reach reporter Jenny Michael at 250-8225 or jenny.michael@bismarcktribune.com.)

proof they re-offend said...

Six new probation officers were sworn in to watch over sex offenders.

Sex offenders in West Virginia will now be under closer supervision.

Six new probation officers were sworn into the Supreme Court Chamber Tuesday.

They were hired to keep a closer eye on those who have committed sexual crimes.

The new officers were hired to keep a closer eye on those who have committed sexual crimes. This is their only responsibility.

Time to end the shame said...

A P.E.I. man appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show this week in an episode about male survivors of sexual abuse.

Mike Avery was among 200 men Winfrey invited into her studio for the show. She described them as coming from all walks of life and all had been sexually assaulted as boys.

The show reaches tens of millions of people around the world. The men talked about what happened to them and the impact it had on their lives. Avery said it was a difficult experience, but he was glad to be part of it.

"I shed probably five pounds of tears. Some of them were joyous tears, some of them were sad, but it was necessary. I'll tell you, I was certainly a changed person," he said.

The Charlottetown man was 12 when he was sexually assaulted.

It is estimated that one in six boys is sexually abused. Winfrey herself was abused as a child and said she did the show to try to end the stigma attached to men who were sexually abused.
'Time to end the shame'

"It's time to end the shame and the fear and the guilt and the secrets. No more," Winfrey said.

"It was unbelievably powerful and educational. I had 15 years' experience in advocacy, but I never experienced anything so phenomenal — to have that many people that went through it and were able to articulate very well their phenomenal abuse," Avery said.

He said an international show such as Winfrey's is a big step to help people understand how child abuse happens and the trauma it causes.

Much more needs to be done, he said, with more resources directed to providing counselling. "We need to talk," he said of survivors. "As a society, we just have to change. We have changed lots of other things in 100 years, so this is going to be major change coming for male survivors, which is great."

The Oprah special was the first in a two-part series. The second part airs Friday.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/11/06/pe-oprah-apperance-584.html#ixzz14qxyAtSg

Rabbi facing jail time said...

NEW YORK — A prominent Brooklyn rabbi has been convicted in a scheme to extort a Connecticut-based hedge fund into paying millions of dollars to two schools.

Rabbi Milton Balkany was found guilty in Manhattan federal court Wednesday of extortion, blackmail, wire fraud and false statement charges.

Prosecutors say the 64-year-old Balkany threatened and lied to workers at the unnamed hedge fund to persuade them to send him checks totaling $3.25 million. They say he told them he was a spiritual adviser to an inmate who had knowledge of insider trading connected to the hedge fund.

Information about Balkany's lawyer was not immediately available. Balkany faces up to 20 years in prison on the wire fraud count at his sentencing Feb. 18.

Benjamin Brafman said...

I am also the lawyer representing YOB whenever they need me to defend Nussbaum against child molestation charges.
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Balkany's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, told Reuters, "I am pleased to be leaving the building with my client and we will continue to litigate important issues in this case."

agudas israel senior citizens division said...

In addition to "at least five other lawsuits stemming from allegations of abuse," the Oakland Diocese faces yet another lawsuit for sex abuse. A woman claims that she was abused by a monsignor during the early '80s. "The suit says Monsignor Vincent Breen abused the woman between 1980 and 1982 while he worked at the rectory of the Holy Spirit in Fremont," reports AP (via KTVU). "It accuses the diocese of covering the alleged abuse up

Breen died in 1986, but remained at Holy Spirit "until he was forced into retirement in 1982 after a police investigation found that he had molested at least seven other girls ages 7 to 14."

he could have been talking about the Jews said...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Anonymous said...

Balkany is a nice guy. He really means well, but for some reason always smashes his brains against the wall.

Amazon said...

The online retailer Amazon still has links to websites that sell literature by pro-paedophilia campaigners, despite being forced yesterday to remove a self-published e-book offering advice to child abusers.

Users can find themselves directed to websites selling the work of two leading figures in the now defunct Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a British pro-paedophilia activist group founded in the 1970s.

Amazon has become embroiled in a row following its decision last month to sell an electronic version of The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct, by Philip Greaves II, which could be downloaded to its Kindle e-book reader. The site received thousands of protests online and was forced to pull the title from its website yesterday. The book, described as an "attempt to make paedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them", prompted 2,500 customer reviews, many of them angry. However, hard copies of Tom O'Carroll's 1980 book Paedophilia: The Radical Case is still available via third-party sellers operating through the website. Amazon's British offshoot, Amazon.co.uk, also links to vendors selling the essay collection Perspectives on Paedophilia.

One of that title's contributors, Peter Righton, is a former leading childcare expert charged with possession of child pornography and a former member of PIE. In 2002, Carroll was convicted of being "knowingly concerned" in the importation of indecent material by importing long-lens photographs of children into Britain. Initially, the retailer stood firm on its decision to list Greaves' book. In a statement, it said: "It is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable."

However, yesterday the self-published title was removed from the company's websites. The company allows authors to submit their own electronic books for Kindle and share revenues with them.

Rabbi Shlomo 'crocodile tears' Mandel said...

I think we should stop these studies altogether. Why waste time and money on child sexual abuse when there are much more important issues to confront. The television and internet are destroying us. That's the number 1 killer.
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Finkelhor and Browne (1986) recommended that since sexual abuse is extensively underreported and intervention is subsequently delayed, there be new studies of victims who have not disclosed or sought treatment. They recommended these studies be conducted more proximate to the age of victimization.

The problem and extent of underreporting, or non-disclosure, is a primary obstacle in determining frequency of child sexual abuse. Bagley (1992) acknowledged that the issue of whether child sexual abuse is increasing or decreasing is difficult to determine in the absence of current data. He confirmed there is logic in beginning attempts to assess the frequency of distressed students in school settings.

Christian Alberto Castro Chinchilla said...

A man already on probation for sex crimes against minors was arrested Friday after he exposed himself to four young girls at a bus stop in South Miami Heights.

Police say 27-year-old Christian Alberto Castro Chinchilla masterbated in front of the girls, ages 11, 13, 14, and 15, in multiple incidents between October 22 and November 10. Sometimes, he arrived at the bus stop at Southwest 180th Street and 137th Avenue on foot; others in a white 1998 Toyota Corolla.

Chinchilla is charged with four counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition, but this isn't the repeat offender's first rodeo. Last year, he was convicted of four felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a minor under the age of 16, for which he was sentenced to five years of probabtion.

Just one month into that 2009 sentence, he was also convicted on two misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure and served time in jail.

Priot to that, in 2006, Chinchilla was sentenced to a rehabilitation program after being charged with indecent exposure. It's probably safe to say the program didn't take.

Find this article at:
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Perv-On-Probation--107742143.html

he was talking about the jews said...

Milton Balkany, a Brooklyn rabbi, was convicted on charges he tried to extort $4 million from Steven Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors LP by claiming he could prevent a federal inmate from telling authorities about alleged insider trades.

Balkany, 64, was convicted of all four criminal counts of extortion, blackmail, making false statements and wire fraud. The trial began Nov. 1. The wire fraud conviction carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Balkany, who was dean of the Bais Yaakov day school in the Borough Park neighborhood in Brooklyn, told the Connecticut- based hedge fund that he was the spiritual adviser to a federal prisoner in Otisville, New York, according to prosecutors.

He told a lawyer for the hedge fund that the inmate would keep quiet about alleged illegal trading by the fund in 2004 and 2005 if they paid his school and another school $2 million each, prosecutors said.

The lawyer instead recorded his phone calls and meetings with Balkany.

Balkany was arrested in February after taking two checks from SAC totaling $3.25 million. Balkany told an SAC official at the time that the inmate wouldn’t talk to federal authorities at a meeting scheduled the following day. No such meeting was actually planned, according to the government.

The case is U.S. v. Balkany, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan.)

To contact the reporter on this story: Bob Van Voris in U.S. District Court in New York at rvanvoris@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: David E. Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.net.

rainfall said...

Protocols set for upcoming day of fasting, for those who can, including the order of prayers, and encourage people to fast as much as they can.

Israel’s chief rabbis are calling on the public to pray for rain, and declared this Thursday a special day of fasting and prayer to atone for the sins that are likely preventing the direly missing rainfall.

“The summer is gone as is most of the winter, and we are yet to be redeemed by the downfall of rains of blessing, and the state of the waters in the Land of Israel is under duress and great distress, especially since this is not the first year of drought, and the land is dry due to our many sins, and this is a troubling matter,” Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar wrote in a letter sent out last Thursday.

Lieberman for Prime Minister said...

Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, head of the Elon Moreh Yeshiva, warned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night that if he broke his word and prolonged the construction freeze, prominent rabbis from the national-religious sector would call on their flocks to support Israel Beiteinu leader Avidgor Lieberman as the next prime minister.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=195604

Pollack, Weber and Spira said...

Associated Press

TRENTON, N.J. — Three New York men have pleaded guilty in connection to last year's federal money laundering sting in New Jersey.

Abraham Pollack and Naftoly Weber, both of Brooklyn, and Spring Valley resident Benjamin Spira admitted running unlicensed money transmitting businesses, called cash houses, in Brooklyn.

The three admitted illegally transmitting several hundred thousand dollars to Rabbi Mordchai Fish and to an undercover government cooperator.

Charges against Fish are pending.

Pollack, Weber and Spira were among 46 people arrested last year in the culmination of an investigation into money laundering and public corruption. Twenty-six people have pleaded guilty or been convicted, and one has been acquitted.

Aaron said...

YOB is a cult school. Horrible place to send a child. SEND AT YOUR OWN RISK. It is well known for doling out cruel punishments. It is also a well known fact some students were abused by Rabbis. And I do not only mean physically, sexually too. BEWARE!

he was talking to the jews said...

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

around the blogs said...

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/mideast-talks-may-hinge-on-fiery-rabbi/?partner=rss&emc=rss

A spokesman for the Shas interior minister confirmed that the ministers were waiting for instructions from Rabbi Yosef. “All decisions go through the rabbi,” Roi Lachmanovitch told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Daniel Estrin of The A.P. observed that this means, “The future of the Mideast peace process could rest in the hands of one very undiplomatic man.” Rabbi Yosef, who was branded an “elderly Sephardic ayatollah,” by Christopher Hitchens this week in Slate, has generated controversy with a decade-long string of inflammatory statements.

Last month, the cleric was condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for saying that “Goyim,” or non-Jews, “were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world — only to serve the People of Israel.”

In sermon broadcast on Israeli radio in August, the cleric said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, “and all these evil people should perish from this earth.” He added, “God should strike them and these Palestinians — evil haters of Israel — with a plague.” (Weeks later, Rabbi Yosef seemed to recant those remarks in a letter to Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, in which he said that he “blessed all the leaders and peoples — Egyptians, Jordanians and Palestinians — who are partners to this important process and want its success, a process that will bring peace to our region and prevent bloodshed.”)

In previous years, Rabbi Yosef made headlines when he said that Hurricane Katrina “was God’s retribution” for President George W. Bush’s support of the expulsion of Israeli settlers from Gaza.

In Israel, he was most widely condemned for remarks made in 2000, when he said that Jews who died in the Holocaust had been paying for sins they had committed in previous lives. As my colleague John Burns explained at the time, those comments by Rabbi Yosef, who was born in Baghdad when it was one-third Jewish, were seen as “a reflection of the divisions between Ashkenazic Jews, whose families lived in Central and Eastern Europe, and Sephardic Jews, mainly from the Middle East and North Africa, whose political power has grown. Shas draws much of its support from working-class Sephardim.”

Motzes Resign said...

Pope Benedict XVI on Friday was holding talks with cardinals from all over the world focusing on pressing issues facing the Catholic church, including sexual abuse of minors by priests and religious freedom. The Vatican said some 150 "princes of the church" are taking part in the day-long meeting of prayer and reflection.

Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals gathered this morning in the Vatican for a day of prayer and reflection ahead of the weekend's consistory (large meeting) for the creation of new cardinals.

Attending the meeting are cardinals from all over the world who have come to attend the ceremonies this weekend in which 24 new princes of the church will receive their red hats and cardinal rings.

Among them is U.S. Cardinal designate, Archbishop of Washington DC, Donald Wuerl who says religious freedom is one of the main issues being addressed at the meeting.

"There are places around the world where you simply cannot openly worship, you cannot have a Catholic Church, you cannot have a Christian community openly celebrating the sacraments. There are places where freedom of conscience and freedom of religion are simply denied for lots of reasons," he said.

Pope Benedict is likely to hold discussions with the cardinals about the ongoing persecution of Christians around the world, including recent attacks in Iraq. A fresh dispute with communist China over the unilateral ordination of a bishop not approved by the Vatican is also expected to be discussed.

Cardinals at the meeting will also be holding talks on the Church's response to the sex abuse crisis. The Catholic church has been hit by scandals involving the molestation of children by priests in several countries, including Ireland, the United States, Belgium, Brazil and the pope's native Germany.

This weekend’s consistory will be the third of Benedict's papacy. Of the 24 new cardinals, 20 are under 80 years old, which means they will be eligible to take part in the conclave that will elect the next pope.

George Galloway - Palestinian sympathizer; hypocrite said...

A cabinet minister criticized York University in the House of Commons for threatening legal action against a Toronto rabbi who encouraged non-students to protest George Galloway's speech on Tuesday night.

"We believe that all Canadians have the right to free speech, but we expect, Mr. Speaker, that universities in Canada will support free speech, not shelter from criticism those like Mr. Galloway, who says he is not in favour of free speech," Peter Kent, minister of state for foreign affairs (Americas), said Thursday.


Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/Minister+criticizes+York+threatening+rabbi/3859579/story.html#ixzz15t52iq70

ketanim said...

Why should we resign. Just because sex scandals and corruption cases are on the rise in our communities?

Israeli police break up Yeshiva scam said...

Israeli police broke up a scam carried out by ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups who faked ID cards for fictitious students in order to receive millions of extra dollars from the state, a spokesman said Sunday.

Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police arrested six people after they found more than 1,000 fake ID cards during a raid on three ultra-Orthodox educational institutions in Jerusalem.

The fraud lasted more than a year, Rosenfeld said, and cost the government "tens of millions of shekels."

Israel provides stipends for students who study at full-time Jewish seminaries, or Yeshivas, a policy in place for years, but one that has been facing increased opposition from the country's secular majority.

Consecutive government coalitions have relied on the support of ultra-religious parties, who in return have traditionally received financial benefits for their own community.

Tropper will squeeze you said...

"Rabb" Eli Tropper's favorite article.

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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/23/anti_tsa_undies/
US man slips into perv scanner-busting undies

Tungsten fig leaves invite drooling TSA operatives to cop a feel

By Lester Haines

Posted in Bootnotes, 23rd November 2010 10:58 GMT

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US firm Rocky Flats Gear [1] is apparently doing a roaring trade in novel perv scanner-busting underwear - an attractive range of intimate apparel which may protect your naughty bits from radiation and the prying eyes of drooling airport security operatives.

According to the blurb, the kit's main aim is "protecting the traveling public, airline, medical, and security professionals from radiation generated by security and medical imaging equipment".

Boxer shorts and panties with strategically-placed fig leaf and clasped hands

Colorado-based inventor Jeff Buske reckons demand for the tungsten-lined undies is a result of the "inevitable backlash" against the Transportation Security Administration's rapid roll-out of body scanners in the wake of the Xmas Day non-exploding underpants outrage [2].

The former designer of X-ray machines for General Electric is convinced the scanners aren't safe, despite TSA claims, and told [3] the LA Times that he "designed the undergarments with safety in mind".

Of course, Joe Public may have a more immediate concern than exposure to radiation - exposure to TSA eyeballs and possibly the entire planet.

Yeshiva Of Brooklyn - A Century said...

A TOTAL of 1008 cases of child neglect were reported to the Child Services Unit of the Ministry of Social Welfare between 1995 and 2009.

For the same period, the unit received 666 reports of sexual abuse, 610 of physical abuse, 430 of children being beyond their parents' control, 314 abandoned and lost cases and 250 of emotional abuse.

Alarmed at the statistics, the ministry's permanent secretary Govind Sami has called for stringent action to stop all forms of abuse against children.

"Children must not go through such trauma at an early age because it will leave emotional stigma in their lives to haunt them forever," he said.

Mr Sami said the effects of child abuse not only incurred emotional costs but serious health effects and psychological, psychiatric problems.

"This can further lead to suicide, teenage pregnancies, alcohol and substance abuse and other social problems," he said.

He said the ministry noticed an escalation in child abuse cases, particularly where children were battered and beaten like animals with a few cases resulting in deaths; children being sexually abused by their parents, close relatives and people they trusted; and children abandoned and neglected because of unwanted and unplanned pregnancies.

"Children are stripped of their dignity when adults and significant people in their lives talk them down and say derogatory comments that stick with them for life," Mr Sami said.

"Children are neglected because of the urge and pressure to keep up with the latest in life or inability to discuss their problems with others who can provide assistance and help."

Mr Sami said a concerted effort by all the stakeholders including the Government, non-government and faith-based organisations and civil societies was needed to attack child abuse and address the problem.

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=160209

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