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Fast Forward Article Exposing Steve Wynn’s Sexual Coercion Killed In 1998
The Las Vegas Review-Journal stopped the publication of an article detailing Steve Wynn’s rampant sexual harassment and ordered the article deleted from the newspaper’s computer system, the Review-Journal reported. The article was killed in 1998 after Wynn’s lawyers met with newspaper leadership, and the newspaper paid for two former employees of Wynn to undergo lie…
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Opinion It’s Time For A Holocaust #MeToo Reckoning
Over the past few months, more and more women have been opening up about horrible stories of sexual harassment, assault and abuse. The #MeToo movement is a long overdue corrective to our culture. And yet the stories of one group of women have yet to crest into the mainstream and get the recognition they deserve:…
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Fast Forward A Trump Nominee Makes Jewish Groups Choose Between Israel And Sexual Harassment
WASHINGTON (JTA) — If there’s overlap between Hillel and the National Council of Jewish Women, it’s in two areas: defending Israel and combating violence against women on campus. Leaders of the campus Jewish organization took a look at the record of Kenneth Marcus, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run civil rights at the Department of…
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The Schmooze Anthony Rapp Speaks Out About Kevin Spacey Accusations: ‘I Was Trying To Protect People’
Anthony Rapp, the “Startrek: Discovery” actor whose allegations in Buzzfeed that Kevin Spacey had made sexual advances on him as a child had an explosive impact on the #MeToo movement in October, gave his first TV interview about Spacey on Friday. WATCH: @startrekcbs star Anthony Rapp (@albinokid) responds to the outpouring of support he has…
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Fast Forward University of Iowa Will Drop Steve Wynn’s Name From Major Institute He Funded
The University of Iowa says it is planning to remove Steve Wynn’s name from a major institute on its campus in the wake of sexual assault allegations made against him, the Washington Post reported. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that Wynn had pressured employees into sex. In 2013, the University of Iowa unveiled…
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The Schmooze Michael Douglas Denies Sexual Misconduct, Preemptively
From James Rosen to James Franco, Gene Simmons to Russel Simmons, and from Kirk Douglas to Michael Douglas, men are scared. As powerful men, particularly in media and entertainment, continue to face accusations about sexual misconduct, it has become clear that the climate surrounding sexual charges is changing. Nothing signifies this change more profoundly than…
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The Schmooze James Franco Is Accused Of Sexual Assault. Why Did Colbert Let Him Off The Hook?
Nobody wants to live in a world where lives are made and ruined by the court of public opinion. Nobody wants rumors on Twitter to decide punishments for accused public figures. Everybody wants justice to reign and for the law to be decided by Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Ruth Bader Ginsberg alone (at least I…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbi From Brooklyn Probed Over Molestation Accusations — By Dutch Jews
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The umbrella group of Dutch Jewish communities began a probe of the actions of a local Chabad rabbi who is accused of molesting children in the United States. The Organization of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands, or NIK, on Wednesday announced the initiation of the probe of Rabbi Mendel Levine, a man in his…
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