This is the Forward’s coverage of sexual violence, including harassment, rape, abuse, and other forms.
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Fast Forward Camp Ramah director accused of mishandling sexual assault placed on leave
Camp Ramah in the Berkshires has been rocked by allegations leveled in a lawsuit from a former camper
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News Lawsuit: Camp Ramah showed ‘deliberate indifference’ to camper’s sexual assault
Ramah officials refused to remove the alleged assailant from camp until police insisted, according to the court filing
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News How a rabbi suspended for sexual misconduct can stay in the pulpit
Rabbi Jeremy Gerber acknowledged sexual transgressions. His synagogue decided to keep him.
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News She defended disgraced author Chaim Walder. Now a revered rebbetzin is facing a backlash of her own.
The recent revelation of acclaimed children’s author Chaim Walder’s decades of sexual abuse has prompted a reckoning in the Orthodox community, or at least calls for one. It also prompted a prominent Haredi rebbetzin and scholar, Tziporah Heller, to write an impassioned Facebook post decrying those who shamed Walder and vilifying the reporter who first…
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Opinion Our Reform leaders sinned. Should we still sing songs they wrote?
Reform synagogues across the nation are struggling to make sense of the damning report released earlier this month showing nearly unfettered patterns of unwanted sexual contact between male faculty and female students at Hebrew Union College over five decades. Released on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the report, conducted by an independent law firm, showed that…
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Opinion I was America’s first female rabbi. I am brokenhearted to learn how the man who ordained me treated so many other women
Having read the recent report detailing the presence of gender bias, sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying on the four campuses of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, I am genuinely brokenhearted that the seminary with which I have been so closely associated for more than five decades has failed so abysmally to listen to its…
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News 25 years later, man sues bar mitzvah tutor, synagogue and day school for abuse
Nearly 25 years after his bar mitzvah tutor pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct, a 40-year-old New Jersey native has sued the former tutor as well as the synagogue and day school that employed him. The tutor, Akiva Roth, pleaded guilty in 1997 to four counts of lewdness, and lost his jobs at the East Brunswick…
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News In Y.U. child sexual abuse case, a ‘race against time’ to get elderly witnesses on the record
When Norman Lamm, the longtime leader of Yeshiva University, died last spring at the age of 92, he took his secrets to his grave. Lamm died of natural causes while a defendant in a high-profile sexual abuse lawsuit, before he could be called to testify and provide what the plaintiffs and their lawyer say is…
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