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Richard Greenberg

Richard Greenberg

How one Boston synagogue met the challenge of the cantor’s sexual abuse

As an attorney representing several victims of sexually predatory Catholic priests, Mark Itzkowitz has witnessed the church\’s pedophilia scandal from an almost too-close-for-comfort vantage point. Not long ago, Itzkowitz\’s life took a surreal turn when he found himself confronting clergy sexual abuse from a different perspective: The problem had come home to roost in his own synagogue.

Conspiracy Theories Continue to Blame Jews and Israel Five Years After 9/11

As the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, approaches, the date has become synonymous with the image of wanton destruction. And in addition to the massive loss caused by the attacks, they spawned another form of unrelenting damage — a host of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories implicating the Jews and Israel in the bloodshed.

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