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News Norman Lamm’s Mental Health Prompts Y.U. Abuse Judge To Order Evaluation
When Rabbi Norman Lamm retired as chancellor of Yeshiva University in July, many people rued the fact that his distinguished career had been tarnished by his own admission, last December, that he mishandled allegations of physical and sexual abuse while he was president of Y.U. Now, Lamm’s mental health is being dragged into the limelight…
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Fast Forward Judge Orders Mental Competence Exam for Norman Lamm in Y.U. Sex Abuse Suit
A federal judge has ordered an independent medical examination of the mental health of Rabbi Norman Lamm, Yeshiva University’s former president, in the opening stages of a $380 million sex abuse lawsuit. Judge John Koeltl ordered a medical evaluation of Lamm as early as next week, during a pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court on…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University’s Own Expert on Abuse Condemns Recent YU Abuse Report
Yeshiva University’s resident legal expert on child sexual abuse is condemning her employer’s recent report on the alleged sexual abuse committed by YU staff against high school students under their care. Marci Hamilton, Paul R. Verkuil Chair of Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a nationally recognized legal expert on…
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Opinion Y.U. Report’s Three Paragraphs Fails To Do Justice to Abuse — or Jewish Ethics
On August 26, the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, hired by Yeshiva University to look into allegations of past abuse at the university’s High School for Boys, finally concluded its eight-month investigation and released a report detailing its findings. As one of the high school students abused in the early 1970s and as one…
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News Y.U. Report on Sex Abuse Draws Mixed Reaction From Modern Orthodox
The Modern Orthodox community has broadly welcomed a long-awaited report into allegations that Yeshiva University staff physically and sexually abused numerous students over several decades. But the report, which withheld most of the findings uncovered by investigators, was not enough to mollify some current and former Y.U. students and victims of abuse. “More will need…
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Fast Forward Y.U. Report Finds School Failed To Respond to Abuse
Incidents of physical and sexual abuse at Yeshiva University were not limited to its high school for boys, an investigation has found. An outside investigation commissioned by the university following reports of sexual abuse by two faculty members at Y.U.’s high school for boys in the 1970s and ‘80s confirmed that “multiple incidents of varying…
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Opinion Waiting on Y.U.
It is now eight months since the Forward reported allegations that two rabbis at Yeshiva University High School for Boys in Manhattan had sexually and physically abused students during the 1970s and 1980s, and that the Y.U. administration allowed the rabbis to go to other jobs rather than face prosecution. Eight months since the school…
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The Schmooze Kathie Lee Gifford’s Secret Jewish Ambition
Forget dinner and flowers — Kathie Lee Gifford wants something a little out of the ordinary for her birthday. The “Today Show” host, who celebrated her 60th birthday on Friday alongiside co-host Hoda Kotb, read out a submission from a 60-year-old viewer who said she was in her senior year of college, graduating in November….
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