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Fast Forward D.C. Synagogue Preschool Probed Over Sex Abuse Claims
Police in Washington, D.C., investigated allegations of child sexual abuse at a synagogue preschool
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Fast Forward Jewish UCLA Fraternity Sued Over Sexual Assault
(JTA) — A female student at the University of California, Los Angeles has sued the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity there and one of the fraternity’s former members, accusing him of sexual assault. The accuser, who is remaining anonymous in the lawsuit, says that Blake Lobato, a ZBT brother, forcibly penetrated her while she was drunk…
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Fast Forward Thomas Frieden, Ex-CDC Director, Charged With Sex Abuse
Thomas Frieden, a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was arrested in New York City on Friday on charges of sexual abuse and harassment of a woman last year, the New York Police Department said. Frieden, who also once served as New York City’s health commissioner, turned himself into…
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Opinion Wake Up, Jews And Catholics: Sex Abuse Turns People Off Religion
On Tuesday this week, the Catholic Church was once again thrust into the limelight when a grand jury released a scathing report. The report documented horrific torture and sexual abuse of over 1,000 children at the hands of 300 priests in six of eight Pennsylvania dioceses. It also detailed the extreme extent the Church went…
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Fast Forward Ari Shavit Breaks Silence About Sexual Assault Allegations In New Interview
Israeli author and journalist Ari Shavit has spoken out about sexual assault allegations against him and his reckoning with his gender and power dynamics in a new interview with Haaretz. The Israeli newspaper, where Shavit wrote a column for nearly two decades, published a conversation between him and Dr. Orit Kamir, who drafted Israel’s law…
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Fast Forward Manhattan Prosecutor Brings New Charges Against Harvey Weinstein
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Manhattan district attorney on Monday announced new criminal charges against film producer Harvey Weinstein, who had been charged with rape and a criminal sexual act in May. The new charges include predatory sexual assault and involve a third woman in addition to the two mentioned in the earlier charges. Weinstein,…
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Community As Orthodox Parents, Being Horrified By Child Sexual Abuse Is Not Enough
In recent years, some horrible stories of child sexual abuse in Orthodox settings, such as schools and summer camps, have rocked the religious Jewish community. A phenomenon that used to be underreported and largely taboo has come to light, and the fact that people are now speaking and writing about it more and more in…
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News Sex Abuse Prevention Program Targets Orthodox Camps
This summer, as parents pack their children’s things for Orthodox Jewish sleep away camps, their soon-to-be counselors are preparing in a different way: By taking a sex abuse prevention course. The course, created two years ago by an Israel-based nonprofit called ASAP, will be in use this year at over a hundred summer camps, mostly…
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