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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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The Schmooze Ronan Farrow Slams Media for Coddling His Father, Woody Allen
Ronan Farrow, son of Jewish filmmaker Woody Allen, called out the media on failing to publish information about his father’s alleged sexual abuse of daughter Dylan Farrow. Ronan wrote that he believes claims by Dylan that Allen routinely molested her as a child to be true, and recounts how his father would go into his…
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Fast Forward Australian Headmistress Won’t Face Extradition From Israel To Face Sex Charges
JERUSALEM — An Israeli court has halted extradition procedures against the former principal of a Jewish girls’ school in Melbourne who fled Australia amid claims she sexually abused some of her students. The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday halted the process after a state-appointed psychiatrist determined that Malka Leifer was unfit to stand trial. Extradition…
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Fast Forward New Video Shows Second Boy Fondled by Hasidic Principal
NEW YORK (JTA) – A second hidden video from inside the largest yeshiva in the Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel shows a principal holding a school-age boy between his legs while kissing him in what sex-abuse watchdogs are describing as another case of abuse. The video follows the release of another hidden-camera recording that seems…
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