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Opinion Will New Jewish Effort Force New York To Change Sex Abuse Laws at Last?
Sara Kabakov had never done this before. Never driven three hours from her home in Ithaca, N.Y., to the state capitol in Albany nearly 200 miles away, never tried to enter the mosh pit of lobbying lawmakers, never thought of herself as a political activist. But there she was yesterday at the capitol, seeking an…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders: Extend Time For Child Sex Abuse Victims to Sue Their Abusers
Jewish leaders and rabbis from a range of denominations have come out in support of legislation that would give New York State child sex abuse victims more time to sue those they hold responsible for their abuse. Over the last few days, more than 50 leaders and activists, including some 30 rabbis, signed a letter…
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News Ultra-Orthodox Take to Facebook To Fight Sex Abuse — and Taboo Against Reporting It
The scene captured by the surveillance camera shows an ultra-Orthodox man trying to force himself on a young boy in the narrow entrance of an apartment building. It happened last month, on Purim, in the Israeli town of Bnei Brak. Within a few hours, the footage was posted on Facebook. Almost immediately, the assailant was…
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Fast Forward Jewish Camps, Schools Pressed to Adopt Child Sexual Abuse Policies
(JTA) — Over two dozen philanthropists and organizations have pledged to fund only Jewish day camps and schools taking “adequate steps to prevent, report, and investigate sexual abuse of minors.” The was introduced on Sunday, the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles reported Wednesday. Some of its most prominent signees include Lynn Schusterman, co-founder and co-chairwoman of…
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Fast Forward Calls Mount for Reform of Predator-Friendly Sex Abuse Laws
A shocking child sex scandal involving the alleged abuse of 34 students at New York’s Yeshiva University High School for Boys was back in the headlines this week, three years after The Forward first uncovered the story. The Daily News highlighted how, because of state law, justice is out of reach for the former students,…
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Life Nancy Reagan’s Questionable Legacy of ‘Just Say No’
When former First Lady Nancy Reagan passed away on Sunday at the age of 94, she was commemorated in some obituaries as a staunch supporter of Alzheimer’s research and in others as a believer in the unconventional political powers of astrology. But she was most frequently remembered as the face of “Just Say No.” A…
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Life Israeli Women Should Keep Sexual Assault on the Agenda
It is that time of year again. February is almost halfway over. The year, which was new not so long ago, is already in its second month. December’s stock-taking – if you go in for that sort of thing – seems like a distant memory. Our resolutions probably didn’t become manifest. We probably didn’t become…
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Opinion Let’s Reform Sex Abuse Laws To Offer Justice — Not Protect Predators
No matter what happens at the Oscars, the very best film of 2015 was “Spotlight,” the improbable drama of how a team of newspaper reporters painstakingly revealed an institutional cover-up of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The film’s excellence lay not only in its superb acting and storytelling, but in the way it…
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