Shulamit Magnus and Rafael Medoff
By Shulamit Magnus and Rafael Medoff
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Opinion How sexual abusers can earn their way back into Jewish communal spaces
Recently, there has been renewed discussion in Jewish communal spaces of men, once prominent in Jewish life but removed from it because of revelations of serial sexual abuse of women. The men — the journalist Ari Shavit, the writer Leon Wieseltier, and the social scientist Steven M. Cohen — have all expressed some regret, while…
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Opinion Why are Jewish intellectual sexual predators being honored in a new book?
Should admitted, unrepentant sexual predators who happen to be Jewish intellectuals be accepted by the Jewish community as if they had committed no offenses? That is the question raised by the disturbing inclusion of three admitted Jewish sex abusers in a soon-to-be-released book, “The New Jewish Canon,” by Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire E. Sufrin. According…
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