This is the Forward’s coverage of the #MeToo movement against sexual violence.
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Life It’s Time We Start Talking About The Dangers Of Abusive, Angry Parenting In The Jewish Community
Jews are wringing their hands over the Weinstein sexual abuse allegations. Oy, what a shanda! Then comes an even more shocking story. Three adult sisters, raised in an ultra-Orthodox community in Australia, have accused the female principal of their former religious school of indecent assault and rape. As I read Dina Kraft’s compelling article Australian…
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Life How Can Men Help End Rape Culture? By Emulating Abraham.
As I read through the growing stream of #MeToo posts last week, I was among the many men unsure of how to respond. The experiences behind each post describing sexual harassment; some horrific, others horrifically commonplace, reflect a state of our culture that must reckon with how we allow men to treat women. Lest we…
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The Schmooze Howard Stern, Who Once Joked About Raping Teen Murder Victims, Condemns Harvey Weinstein
Howard Stern, who once suggested that the Columbine killers should have raped as many teenage girls as possible before murdering them, said on Wednesday that men who engage in sexual harassment are “freaks.” Speaking about Harvey Weinstein on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, Stern said, “It’s unbelievable…this guy — it’s an unbelievable story — all these guys…
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Community Does Israel’s Macho Culture Protect Sexual Predators?
I was a victim of sexual assault in Israel, and also had numerous incidents of being cornered and aggressively “flirted” with in the United States. Travelling in Israel, as a wayward art school drop-out, at the age of twenty-three, I accepted a ride from two young truck drivers early on a Saturday morning. I was…
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Life Why Are People Pushing Back Against The #MeToo Campaign?
It is the “too” that speaks to me. Millions of women—if not all women—have experienced assault or harassment of some form. Millions of men have, too. Hundreds of them, I know personally. We all know hundreds of them personally. Until yesterday, I knew that. Intellectually, I know the statistics. As a social worker providing therapy…
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Community MeToo: Academia Has Its Fair Share Of Sexual Predators
When I was a graduate student I met a professor at a conference overseas who attended my panel and showed interest in my research. He offered to read my work and provide constructive feedback. Several weeks later he told me he was coming to the country I lived in for a conference and asked if…
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Community MeToo: Because Not All Nice Jewish Boys Are Nice
Somewhere out there — I think he is in Brooklyn now. This is a nice Orthodox Jewish boy — now a man. Facebook tells me that he has children, and his wife wears a sheitel, a wig. Who sodomized me against my will when I was 17 years old — 20 years ago. He was…
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