This is the Forward’s coverage of sexual violence, including harassment, rape, abuse, and other forms.
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Life On Akin’s ‘Legitimate Rape’ Blow-Up
The Sisterhood’s Blair Thornburgh calls Rep. Todd Akin’s ill-considered words on abortion and rape “immature,” and she’s right about that. Unfortunately, this momentary villain of the political community is not alone in his ignorance and immaturity. Rather, his response resurrects an old Right-Wing canard: Anna North ran down some of the weirdest examples of this…
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Life ‘Legitimate Rape’ Comments Dangerously Immature
Perhaps it’s not shocking that Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri who’s backed by the Tea Party, opposes abortion even in the case of rape. More surprising is the backward and scrambling way he justifies his position. In an interview with a St. Louis television station, Mr. Akin presented a muddied “clarification”…
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Fast Forward Campers Abused by Kosher Food Truck Man
New York State Police are investigating a possible case of sexual abuse at a camp for Orthodox Jewish boys in upstate Monticello, N.Y. A kosher food truck driver has been captured on camera sneaking onto campus of Camp Shalva early on the morning of August 8 and entering bunkhouses of 13-to-14 year old boys, according…
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News Abe George Seeks To Upend Hynes
Abe George seems an unlikely roadblock in Charles Hynes’s drive to a seventh term as Brooklyn’s district attorney. George, 33, has no heavy-hitting political backers, no name recognition and, so far, very little campaign money. He is the son of Indian immigrants in a city where no South Asian has ever won citywide or boroughwide…
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News Penn State Scandal Hits Jewish Community
One unlikely venue for fallout from the Penn State University sex abuse scandal is the campus Hillel, for which now ousted university president Graham Spanier – the school’s first Jewish leader – was a fundraiser and vocal supporter. On Tuesday, the Penn State community was stunned when the NCAA levied a $60 million fine against…
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Life The Woman Behind the Strip Club ‘Pole Tax’
Winking headlines about “pole taxes” followed June’s enactment of a Houston ordinance that taxes strip club patrons $5 apiece. But the intent behind the law couldn’t be more serious; proceeds will fund the processing of more than 6,000 rape kits backlogged in police refrigerators. For the legislator behind the law, Houston City Council member Ellen…
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News Heartland Western Wall, Face-Off Over Bucky Shvitz
Click to read the comic in full. In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by staff writer Paul Berger and artist-in-residence Eli Valley who face off over Eli’s most recent comic which takes on sex abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community. Then, Forward fellow Naomi Zeveloff drops by to discuss why an anti-abortion group…
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Life Tolerating Abuse at Horace Mann
Like many graduates of the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, I’ve spent the week in consternation over the New York Times Magazine story exposing a tragic history of sexual abuse at my alma mater (also the alma mater of the story’s writer and editor). Most of the abuse, but not necessarily all, took place…
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