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Fast Forward Anthony Weiner Pleads Guilty In Sexting Case. Says He Has ‘Sickness’
A tearful Anthony Weiner admitted on Friday to transferring obscene material in the case of his sex-msssaging scandal with an underage teen. The embattled former Democratic congressman entered a guilty plea at a Manhattan federal court. He pled guilty to one charge of transferring obscene material to a minor. “I am guilty, your honor,” Weiner…
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Community How Channeling My Inner Miriam Helped Me Heal After My Sexual Assault
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. I screamed no. I screamed no, and he didn’t listen. He listened when I said yes to going to his room, he listened when I said yes to making out, but when I said no to sex, he didn’t listen. That’s rape. He took away…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Cried When Trump Wouldn’t Apologize For ‘Pussy-Grabbing’ Comments
Ivanka Trump demanded to no avail that her father issue a full apology for the infamous tape in which he was recorded bragging about sexual assault. After the release of tape in which he boasted that he could grab women’s genitalia, now-President Trump called in Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner for crisis management. According…
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Yiddish World Grassroots Influences the Mainstream In Fight Against Child Sex Abuse
This article originally [appeared](http://yiddish.forward.com/articles/203732/ray-of-hope-for-sex-abuse-victims-in-the-orthodox/? “appeared”) in the Forverts. When a notable anti-domestic violence activist asked her father, the founder of a Baltimore yeshiva, how rabbis had dealt with child sexual abuse in prewar Europe, he told her, “We closed the shutters.” Up until a few years ago, this selective blindness was the de facto rabbinic…
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Community Jewish Day Schools Must End The Silence On Sexual Harassment
My first confrontation with sexual harassment was not on the streets but within my small Modern Orthodox high school. As I walked down the hallways, its walls decorated with quotes from prominent rabbinical figures and pictures of students bent over Judaic texts, I heard my name being called alongside whistles and jeers, crude language and…
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Fast Forward Did Brooklyn Man Lure Teen Boys With Notes In Tefillin Bags?
(JTA) — Police in New York arrested a Jewish man they say tricked at least two Jewish boys into a conversation that was inappropriate with notes in their tefillin bags. Menachem Tyk, 59, from the heavily Orthodox Borough Park park section of Brooklyn, was arraigned Thursday on charges of reckless endangerment and harassment. He allegedly put…
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Fast Forward 22 Ultra-Orthodox Men Charged With Sex Crimes In Israel
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Police arrested 22 haredi Orthodox men in four Israeli cities who are suspected of sex crimes against women and minors over the past two years, but were sheltered by religious leaders. The men ages 20-60 were arrested on Monday morning in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Betar Illit and Beni Brak, all cities…
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Breaking News Gloria Allred Leads Defamation Lawsuit Against Trump
Jewish civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred wants to take Donald Trump to court. Days before he takes the oath of office as president of the United States, Allred announced that her client is suing the president-elect for defamation. Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump’s reality TV show “The Apprentice,” first accused Trump in October…
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