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Fast Forward 22 Ultra-Orthodox Men Charged With Sex Crimes In Israel
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Police arrested 22 haredi Orthodox men in four Israeli cities who are suspected of sex crimes against women and minors over the past two years, but were sheltered by religious leaders. The men ages 20-60 were arrested on Monday morning in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Betar Illit and Beni Brak, all cities…
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Fast Forward Gloria Allred Leads Defamation Lawsuit Against Trump
Jewish civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred wants to take Donald Trump to court. Days before he takes the oath of office as president of the United States, Allred announced that her client is suing the president-elect for defamation. Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump’s reality TV show “The Apprentice,” first accused Trump in October…
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Community The Child Sexual-Abuse Survivor Who Fought Back
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…
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Israel News Israel’s ‘Walter Cronkite’ Accused of Sexual Harassment
Haim Yavin, Israel’s veteran Channel 1 newscaster, known to Americans as “Israel’s Walter Cronkite,” has been accused of sexual harassment by several women who worked with him. The women accused 83-year-old Yavin after the retired television anchor’s comments in an interview in which he appeared to be lamenting the loss of a culture of impunity…
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News Camp Ramah Faces Decades-Old Accusation of Sexual Abuse
For four decades, a Jewish man says he did not tell anyone that a counselor at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires forced him to perform a sex act in the woods one summer as a boy. But now that his alleged abuser has been convicted in the sexual abuse of several children in Canada, the…
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Israel News Was TV Host ‘Shameful’ for Grilling Danielle Berrin About Ari Shavit Groping?
Los Angeles Jewish Journal writer Danielle Berrin thought she was invited on Israel’s Channel 2 to talk about Jewish media in the diaspora on a visit Israel for a conference on the topic this week. But instead she found herself bombarded with questions about her being groped. Channel 2 correspondent Oded Ben Ami grilled Berrin…
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Life Hashtag Protests Against IDF Sexual Assault Case Inspire Backlash
With Brigadier General Ofek Buchris, an IDF officer convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault, set to receive a generous plea deal, many Israeli army veterans have taken to Facebook to protest. The most popular expression of protest entails individuals (men and women both) recounting minor infractions they engaged in while enlisted, such as unkempt…
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Fast Forward Australia Says Jewish Community ‘Discouraged’ Reporting Child Sex Abuse
SYNDEY — An Australian government report found that some members of the Jewish community had been “discouraged from reporting” allegations of child sexual abuse against employees of two yeshivas. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse published its report Tuesday on the response of Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne to allegations…
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