It seems that the world proved the title for me on Facebook. I put that up as a status update and for the next day, people hashed it out, but the conclusion was what I originally wrote. Although people seek…
Tag: molestation
Don’t report frum sex abuse!
Some of you may say “what’s with all this abuse talk” or “we know abuse happens, what do you want me to do about it”. I’d love to jump on the “ignore it and it will go away bandwagon” but…
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz needs to stop bashing Charedim
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz is a one man show, he only cares about pushing his own agenda while trampling on our gedolei yisroel and talmidei chachumim. Have you noticed that the only one’s sharing his tweets, blog posts, and rallying cries,…
This Rabbi holds that murder cases should be handled by Gedolim!!!
As if it weren’t enough that Yisroel Belsky “handled” the case of of molestor Yosef Kolko by continuing to stand by him after he confessed to sexually abusing a little boy, Rabbi Richard Handler has come out in the Jewish…
Nechemya Weberman: Rapist or Victim?
I’ve been back to blogging for a week and my new goal of avoiding Jewish websites, blogs and news outlets almost worked.The Weberman trial, though, is too hard to ignore. If it was a white collar fraud case I would…
Molestation may be kosher, but Incest is more of a gray area
I once mentioned that one of the reasons molestation is covered up in the frum community is because it’s really not mentioned in the Torah or halachic responsa. There is no halacha against touching that little boy in the mikvah,…
If you saw your best friend getting raped, what would you do?
The answer seems pretty obvious, but in Hush (reviewed last week by Eliyahu Fink, because I hadn’t gotten my copy yet) it is anything but. Hush is the memoir-novel written for young adults about two best friends who grow up…
Hush – Book Review
My copy hasn’t come from the publisher yet, so here is Eliyahu Fink‘s review of Hush. This is a review of the book Hush by Eishes Chayil (pseudonym). I paid for the book and received no compensation for this review.…