This is the Forward’s coverage of the #MeToo movement against sexual violence.
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Yiddish World Banning Carlebach Melodies Would Be Self-Defeating
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As the list of accusations of sexual harassment against well-known figures continues to grow, it isn’t surprising that charges against spiritual leader and composer-singer Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach have resurfaced, leading some of his accusers to call for a ban of his melodies, many of which have become…
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Fast Forward WNYC Fires Two Long-Serving Radio Hosts After Sexual Harassment Accusations
New York Public Radio fired two of its most popular and beloved hosts Thursday after each was recently accused of sexual harassment and bullying, the New York Times reported. Leonard Lopate, 77, and Jonathan Schwartz, 79, had been suspended earlier this month. Each was a fixture of WNYC, the public radio station in New York….
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Fast Forward Matt Lauer’s Wife Plans To Win Bigly In Divorce Suit
Annette Roque, the wife of disgraced NBC anchor Matt Lauer, is lawyering up for the couple’s impending divorce battle — and plans to win bigly, Page Six reported. Roque, a former model, was seen visiting the New York offices of Latham & Watkins, the world’s highest grossing law firm. Lauer was accused in November of…
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Fast Forward Federal Judge Suddenly Retires After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment
A prominent federal appeals circuit judge is retiring after being investigated for sexual harassment, the New York Times reported. Alex Kozinski announced his retirement after 9th Circuit Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas asked for a formal investigation into the allegations against Kozinski last week. “I cannot be an effective judge and simultaneously fight this battle,”…
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Opinion Jews Are Due For A #MeToo Reckoning — About Palestinians
To varying degrees, most of us live in a state of willful blindness. We see horror all around us: people lying half-clothed, unconscious, on the sidewalk; football players who sustain brain damage for our enjoyment; news reports about children dying of hunger. We see these things the way we see the passing landscape. We see…
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Fast Forward Harvey Weinstein Pursued For Embezzling Studio Funds To Cover Up Assaults
The Manhattan District Attorney is investigating disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for possibly embezzling funding for movie shoots to use as hush money to cover up sexual assaults, the New York Post reported. For decades, Weinstein, with the help of his brother Bob Weinstein, paid money to women he had assaulted, harassed or bullied as…
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Opinion MeToo Needs A Forgiveness Option, And Judaism Can Provide It
Many famous men have lied about sexually harassing women and have subsequently lost their jobs and social standing. They deserve to pay for their actions, and should repent. But because this problem is systemic, we need systemic repentance as well. The Jewish practice of teshuvah, or repentance, is about “return” to the right behavior, and…
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Opinion After #MeToo, A Message To My Rapists
I, my friends, and women all over the country have experienced the #MeToo movement as something like a miracle and the women who have risen within it as beings akin to superheroes. As a teenager, I was raped by a boyfriend and then by a best friend. After writing a memoir about some of these…
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