The New York State Assembly on Wednesday approved the Child Victims Act legislation to extend the statute of limitation for criminal and civil child sex abuse cases. It was the first time either chamber of the Legislature has approved that bill since 2008, the Times Union reported — though the legislation’s chances of passing in…
This article originally [appeared](http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/203732/ray-of-hope-for-sex-abuse-victims-in-the-orthodox/? “appeared”) in the Forverts. When a notable anti-domestic violence activist asked her father, the founder of a Baltimore yeshiva, how rabbis had dealt with child sexual abuse in prewar Europe, he told her, “We closed the shutters.” Up until a few years ago, this selective blindness was the de facto rabbinic…
An Eritrean woman is facing child abuse charges in Israel, after she performed a circumcision on her toddler son in her home in Eilat, failing to use the instruments employed by a Jewish ritual circumciser. She’s defending her actions as in keeping with her culture. “This is my son, my baby,” she testified in Israeli…
A version of this piece originally appeared in Plus61J. How does a twelve-year-old survive when he has been the victim of child sexual abuse and compounding abuses perpetrated by leaders of the community entrusted with his care? How does he grow up to become a Jewish community leader and one of Australia’s best known advocates…
An Orthodox Brooklyn yeshiva has agreed to pay two of its former students $2.1 million for alleged sexual molestation they suffered at age six from a senior rabbi on the school’s faculty—the first known case of such a settlement by a Jewish day school. Yeshiva Torah Temimah, a prominent school on Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway with…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has dodged repeated entreaties from advocates against child sexual abuse to support legislation that would enable many victims of this crime to seek justice from their abusers. In a May 9 statement, Cuomo sidestepped pointed questions from the advocates, and from the press, about his willingness to push the state…
Jewish leaders and rabbis from a range of denominations have come out in support of legislation that would give New York State child sex abuse victims more time to sue those they hold responsible for their abuse. Over the last few days, more than 50 leaders and activists, including some 30 rabbis, signed a letter…
Lord Greville Janner of Braunstone, the British Labour Member of Parliament and peer in the House of Lords who passed away on December 19 at the age of 87, dedicated a good deal of his political life to championing Jewish causes. Yet despite being a diligent parliamentarian and prominent Jewish community leader, his legacy will…
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