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January 11, 2007
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January 11, 2007
Clergy sexual misconduct: What’s being done to rein in abuse?
Eugene L. Meyer
January 11, 2007
Even as the Catholic Church has been rocked by a massive pedophilia scandal in recent years, the Jewish community also has been buffeted by high-profile cases of sexual impropriety involving rabbis and other authority figures.How extensive is the problem of clergy sex abuse in the Jewish community? It depends on which criteria are used as a yardstick.
Awareness Center and other blogs draw praise and scorn
Eugene L. Meyer
January 11, 2007
There is no unabridged database of rabbinic sexual abusers. But there is the Awareness Center. It\’s not a physical place, but a Baltimore post office box, cellphone number and Web site.
Is molestation being swept underneath the Eruv?
Eugene L. Meyer
January 11, 2007
Within Jewish circles, much of the focus on sexual predators has centered on the Orthodox community, particularly its more ultra-religious precincts, where some contend that clergy sex abuse is more hidden — and possibly more widespread — than elsewhere. Whether or not those contentions are true, the problem in that community was spotlighted by two recent episodes in the fervently Orthodox, or haredi, community.
How one Boston synagogue met the challenge of the cantor’s sexual abuse
Richard Greenberg
January 11, 2007
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.
Discovering the Name
Rabbi Mordecai Finley
January 11, 2007
The first Torah portion in Exodus is Shemot, Hebrew for \”names.\” \”These are the names of the Israelites coming to Egypt…\” (Exodus 1:1). That might be where we got the name of the parsha, but that is not where the parsha takes us. Namings take place throughout Shemot.
Plan 9 from La Belle France
David Suissa
January 11, 2007
If I were the boss of L.A. Jewry, I\’d make it easier for French Jews to move to Los Angeles. Why? Because many of them would love to live here. And judging from those that have already settled here, they boost the local economy, they enhance our quality of life, and they love their Judaism.
A kiss on the hand may be so Continental, but diamonds aren’t forever anymore
Amy Klein
January 11, 2007
When I turned 18 years old, my parents gave me a pair of diamond earrings. Later that same night at a comedy club, when a comedian on stage asked me what I got for my birthday, I showed him the diamonds.
\”You must be Jewish, right?\” he said.
I was — still am, as a matter of fact. But I didn\’t know yet about Jews and diamonds. I\’m not talking about the diamond industry, in which Israeli and Diaspora Jews are heavily involved, but in the purchase and wearing of diamonds.
Dr. King in Hollywood
Rob Eshman
January 11, 2007
Like many synagogue guest speakers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began his address to the members of Temple Israel of Hollywood on Friday, Feb. 26, 1965, with a pitch.
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