Rebecca Dube
By Rebecca Dube
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News Orthodox Video Silent on Reporting Sexual Abuse to Police
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…
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News Shalit Family Endures ‘Continuous Nightmare’
Asked how he and his wife managed to cope as they approach the three-year anniversary of their son’s kidnapping by Hamas, Noam Shalit was characteristically blunt. “We don’t,” he said, his arms tightly crossed and his expression stony. “You cannot get used to this situation. It’s a continuous nightmare.” Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, now 22,…
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News Riverdale’s Jews Are Shaken but Stronger
Rabbi Judith Lewis of the Riverdale Temple asked the two conversion candidates about to enter the mikveh: Are you sure you want to do this? It’s not an uncommon question for converts to Judaism, but it was especially relevant at that very moment. This was one day after four men were arrested in the Bronx…
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News Escalating Tensions, Protesters Rile Agudath Israel Over Sex-Abuse Bill
Inside the grand ballroom of the Midtown Hilton in Manhattan, Agudath Israel of America’s annual dinner was unfolding according to plan. Men and women dressed in traditional yet elegant clothes dined on salmon and listened to Senator Charles Schumer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledge their fealty. Outside, a storm was brewing. A dozen protesters stood…
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News Menorah Illuminates Davis Jr.’s Judaism
If you want to buy Sammy Davis Jr.’s menorah when goes up for auction next month, it will cost you a bit more than a song. The bidding will start at $10,000, and Brooklyn-based auctioneer Jonathan Greenstein says the silver menorah could fetch upward of $15,000. But even more than its monetary value, both as…
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News ‘Shalom’ and ‘Salaam’: Day Schools Embrace Arabic
Outside their classroom window a beautiful spring afternoon is blooming, but a few students at Ramaz, a Modern Orthodox academy in Manhattan, have stayed after school for a foreign-language club. After teacher Orit Nawrocki drills them on their siblings’ ages and on various vegetables, all in an unfamiliar language, she bids them farewell. “See you…
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News Budget Cuts Spoil Kosher Meals for Elderly
Home-bound seniors on Manhattan’s West Side are complaining that the quality of kosher meals being delivered to them took a sudden turn for the worse this spring when new city contracting policies took effect — a situation some elderly Jews found so unpalatable that they actually decided to switch to receiving non-kosher meals. “It was…
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News One Man’s Harrowing Path from Abuse to Survival
One Friday night last November, after saying Kiddush and putting his children to bed, Pinny clicked the send button on his e-mail and turned to the work of killing himself. To the outside observer, and even to friends who knew him well, Pinny seemed like an upstanding, frum guy with a great life. He had…
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