In a recent sexual abuse case in Israel, some religious leaders misused Torah to justify silence and complicity. Maybe a closer look at the story of David and Bathsheba can help us do what’s right rather than defend the worst.
Why Israel harbored the woman accused of being Australia’s worst Orthodox Jewish sexual predator
A Jewish man whose parents fled the Nazis and then left him at the notoriously brutal Smyllum Park Orphanage gave his testimony to the ongoing investigation into the history of the abuse of orphaned children in Scotland this week
In her new memoir, Donna Minkowitz recalls being torn between her mother’s overbearing fantasies and her father’s cruel games
A young man’s brazen blog about alleged child sex-abusers in the Chabad community divides Crown Heights
A former rabbi-teacher of mine has been accused of molesting students. So, why can’t I stop thinking of the good he did?
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