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Fast Forward Fugitive Hasidic Rabbi Admits Raping Follower in Secret Tape
JERUSALEM — A rabbi who was extradited back to Israel from South Africa to face sex abuse charges is heard admitting to raping one woman on a years-old recording. The recording purported to be Rabbi Eliezer Berland was aired Tuesday night on Israel’s Channel 2. It reportedly has been turned over to the police. Berland…
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Fast Forward Israeli Woman Gang-Raped on India Backpacking Trip
Two men have been arrested in connection with the gang rape in India of a 25-year-old Israeli tourist. The woman said she was attacked on Sunday in the northern Himalayan resort town of Manali while riding in a vehicle with six men to a nearby town. She told police the other men did nothing to…
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News New York Child Sex Abuse Reform Bill Is Blocked — Again
Barring an eleventh hour deal, New York’s legislature prepared to end its session without passing a bill that will make it easier for child sex abuse survivors to seek justice as adults — legislation that advocates have been pushing for a decade. By June 17, the bill’s backers were still pushing for a vote in…
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Fast Forward Sex Offender Charged With Fondling Woman on Overnight Flight to Israel
A New York man was charged with sexually abusing a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark, New Jersey. Yoel Oberlander, 35, was charged Friday in federal court in Newark. U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph A. Dickson ordered Oberlander, who is a registered sex offender, detained after the indictment. According to the indictment, Oberlander was…
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News Whole Foods CEO Remains Loyal to Marc Gafni Despite Abuse Claims
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is standing by his friend Marc Gafni, a controversial New Age guru and former rabbi accused of abuses of power through his career, including molestation of a teenage girl. Mackey until recently sat on the board of Gafni’s think-tank, Center for Integral Wisdom. Activists have been pushing Mackey to publicly…
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News Amid Furor, Some Say ‘Stanford Rape’ Judge Aaron Persky Revealed Bias in 2011 Sex Case
When Lauren Chief Elk heard the name of the judge whose sentence in the case of a former Stanford athlete accused of sexual assault drew outrage, something clicked. Five years earlier she had been a witness in a trial over which Aaron Persky presided that bore some striking similarities to the Stanford case, she said….
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News New York Child Sex Abuse Reform Hangs by Thread — Will Gov. Andrew Cuomo Act?
The clock is ticking toward midnight, and dimming hopes now seem to rest with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a bill that would enable thousands of child sex abuse victims to seek justice from their abusers. Victim advocates had considered twin bills introduced this year to be their best chance yet to extend the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Woman Admits Concocting Palestinian Rape Story That Benjamin Netanyahu Called ‘Horrific Crime’
A Jewish Israeli woman who claimed to have been raped by a Palestinian minor while another man filmed the incident in Tel Aviv has told the police that she lied about the allegations. The woman, who is mentally challenged, said that she was in a consensual relationship with the minor, and that her family fabricated…
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