This is the Forward’s coverage of sexual violence, including harassment, rape, abuse, and other forms.
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Community What It’s Like to Experience Sexual Abuse as a Man
A Response to a Response to a Response to a Response. As someone who was in an abusive relationship, I know abuse is more than he said she said. Abuse isn’t black and white. It’s more like splattered black and blue shades that mix as they drip towards the edge of the frame. Like a…
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News Ken Thompson Frightened Brooklyn’s Orthodox. Then They Got to Know Him.
In the fall of 2013, there was fear in the air in Orthodox Brooklyn. Power was shifting in the district attorney’s office, and Orthodox leaders worried that the borough’s new chief prosecutor, Ken Thompson, wouldn’t be a friend. “He said he’s going to target the Jewish community,” New York City Council member David Greenfield said…
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News 4 Things About Lisa Bloom, the Lawyer Representing Trump’s Child Rape Accuser
Since the release of the “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump bragged about sexual assault, a dozen women have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. Accusations of a criminal nature were set to make news on Nov. 2, as the person who has sued him for child rape in federal court was…
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Opinion Responding to Sex Abuse Claims, Men Behave Badly — Again
For centuries, victims of sexual harassment and assault — some men, mostly women — have been muzzled by society’s demand for silence. Occasionally, there’s been an inflection point, a moment when a case is so public or so egregious that it breaks the silence, at least temporarily, and victims suddenly feel able to speak. Anita…
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Life Dear Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct: Spare Me the ‘Male Privilege’ Confession
As was recently revealed in exclusive Forward coverage, Israeli journalist Ari Shavit has been accused of sexual misconduct. In a statement published in Haaretz, Shavit offers a window into the soul-searching that can apparently happen when more than one woman accuses you of inappropriate behavior: “‘In the last few days I have understood that I…
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Opinion Why Ari Shavit’s Fall From Grace Stings for So Many American Jews
As writer Danielle Berrin published her illuminating piece last week on how an “accomplished journalist from Israel” sexually assaulted her, my first thought was naturally one of disgust. In the wake of the innumerable assault claims that have piled up against Donald Trump, it was another sobering reminder of the sexism and harassment that women…
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Fast Forward Detroit Physician Accused of Molesting Female Patients
A well-known Detroit-area physician who is a pillar in the Orthodox community has been sued for malpractice by two female patients who claim he repeatedly molested them during examinations. Maury Ellenberg, a doctor in suburban Novi who serves as of Michigan’s largest Jewish day school, allegedly fondled the two women after they went to him…
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News J Street Staffer Is Second Woman To Accuse Shavit of Sexual Misconduct
It should have been a simple errand. The 26-year-old female J Street staff member was tasked with picking up Israeli author Ari Shavit at the Baltimore train station and driving him to speak at a J Street event at Johns Hopkins University to promote his bestselling book “My Promised Land.” But the encounter that April…
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