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A Sex-Offender Synagogue President Resigns Despite Rabbi’s Support
Jason Wasserman was on the child sex offender registry. He completed his sentence and has been pardoned.
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Prestigious Jewish School Knew About Predator’s Abuse But Rehired Him Anyway
Stanley Rosenfeld liked to wrestle with his middle school students. In his underwear. The matches would take place in his apartment when he was an assistant principal at SAR Academy, a prominent Orthodox school in New York City. Rosenfeld frequently hosted his male students for weekend sleepovers. He would cook Friday night dinner and take…
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Fired Teacher Sues SAR — Says He’s Sex Scandal Scapegoat
A teacher fired in connection with the Jewish educator Stanley Rosenfeld’s abuse of children at an Orthodox school in the 1970s is suing the school and claiming wrongful termination. Rabbi Sheldon Schwartz, a 45-year veteran of SAR Academy in the Bronx, alleges that the school has not followed its own procedures in firing him, a…
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Is SAR Reckoning With A Sex Abuse Scandal — Or Looking For A Scapegoat?
Robert Eckmann finally decided ten months ago to email his middle school about the principal who molested him in the 1970s. He couldn’t have known the consequences. His private message has led to revelations about Stanley Rosenfeld, who the Forward found had admitted to molesting hundreds of boys over a decades-long career in Jewish education….
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Candidate Seth Grossman Compares Kavanaugh Inquiry To Lynching Of Jews, Blacks
A Republican Jewish congressional candidate in New Jersey who once said “diversity is a bunch of crap” again sparked outrage when he compared the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the lynching of “innocent Jewish and black men.” Seth Grossman, who according to a recent poll is trailing Democrat Jeff Van…
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Israel Uses Canary Mission Blacklist Info To Bar Activists
Israel’s Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy Ministry is using information from the controversial right-wing website Canary Mission, to bar political activists from entering the country, according to documents obtained by Haaretz. The internal documents, some of which were submitted to the appeals tribunal in the appeal against the deportation of American student Lara Alqasem, show…
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Ben Shapiro Continues To Rise, Buoyed By Kavanaugh Controversy
Ben Shapiro wasn’t satisfied with having one of the most downloaded podcasts in America, a nationally syndicated radio show, millions of followers on Facebook and Twitter, a website quickly growing to be one of the most prominent in the American conservative ecosystem and sold-out lecture halls whenever he visits college campuses. Now, at age 34,…
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Following Forward Report, Federation Says It Will No Longer Fund Canary Mission
The Jewish federation that the Forward exposed Wednesday as bankrolling the online blacklist Canary Mission now says it will no longer support the site. In a statement, the Jewish Community Federation of San Fransisco acknowledged that the Helen Diller Family Foundation, which it controls, made a $100,000 grant in 2016 to support the blacklist site,…
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REVEALED: Canary Mission Blacklist Is Secretly Bankrolled By Major Jewish Federation
One of the largest Jewish charities in the U.S. has been secretly funding a shadowy online blacklist targeting college students who criticize Israel. For three years, a website called Canary Mission has spread fear among undergraduate activists, posting more than a thousand political dossiers on student supporters of Palestinian rights. The dossiers are meant to…
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Navy Vet Represents Fresh Wave Of Jewish Women Running For Congress
Elaine Luria spent one Passover after the September 11 attacks stationed thousands of miles from home on an aircraft carrier in the Middle East. In the spirit of her ancestors, who had immigrated to Alabama from Germany and Eastern Europe and created Jewish life there, she organized the holiday’s ritual festive meal, in the ship’s…
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