Hannah Dreyfus is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist who covers abuses of power in non-profit, religious and academic settings. Selected as a 2018 Writer of the Year by the New York Press Association, her work has appeared in The New York Times, ProPublica, Mother Jones, Slate, Business Insider, The Daily Beast & Vice. Follow her on Twitter @Hannah_Dreyfus.
A senior leader of the Reform movement whose rabbinic privileges were briefly suspended two decades ago for “personal relationships” that violated ethical codes in fact engaged in “sexually predatory” behavior with at least three women, including one who was a minor when the misconduct began, an independent investigation by Manhattan’s Central Synagogue has found. Rabbi…
Eleven past presidents of a prominent Jewish studies organization published a letter this week expressing concerns about the recent resignation of the group’s immediate past president. Noam Pianko, a historian who chairs the Jewish Studies department at the University of Washington, resigned from his position as president of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) on…
The president of the Association for Jewish Studies resigned on Monday after acknowledging that he took part in controversial invitation-only gatherings with Steven M. Cohen, the formerly prominent sociologist accused of sexually harassing female colleagues. In a letter emailed to the academic association’s members Tuesday morning, Noam Pianko, a historian who chairs the Jewish Studies…
More than 525 rabbis have signed a letter criticizing a recent series of scholarly conversations involving Steven M. Cohen, the sociologist who was shunned by much of the academy and Jewish world after allegations emerged three years ago that he had sexually harassed and assaulted female colleagues for decades. “As Jewish clergy, we know that…
Emily Sigalow, an executive at UJA-Federation of New York, was shocked at the email she received on Jan. 25 inviting her to participate in an “off-the-record” conversation about the “current state” of American Jewish life. The invitation came from an esteemed professor at Brandeis, where Sigalow had received her PhD, and one of the four…
(JTA) — The email offered what felt like a lifeline to the dozens of rabbis in the Chicago area who received it last week. “Vaccines are now available for clergy,” an official with the Chicago Board of Rabbis wrote, passing along a link to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine. Days later, some of those…
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