Sexual Abuse Shonda And Concealment In Orthodox Jewish Communities

Author : Michael Lesher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786471255
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities written by Michael Lesher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book--the first of its kind--analyzes how and why cases of child sexual abuse have been systematically concealed in Orthodox Jewish communities. The book examines many such cover-ups in detail, showing how denial, backlash against victims, and the manipulation of the secular justice system have placed Orthodox Jewish community leaders in the position of defending or even enabling child abusers. The book also examines the generally disappointing treatment of this issue in popular media, while dissecting the institutions that contribute to the cover-ups, including two--rabbinic courts and local Orthodox "patrols"--that are more or less unique to Orthodox Jewish communities. Finally, the book explores the cultural factors that have contributed to this tragedy, and concludes with hopes and proposals for future reform.

Author : Michael Lesher
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615977
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities written by Michael Lesher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book--the first of its kind--analyzes how and why cases of child sexual abuse have been systematically concealed in Orthodox Jewish communities. The book examines many such cover-ups in detail, showing how denial, backlash against victims, and the manipulation of the secular justice system have placed Orthodox Jewish community leaders in the position of defending or even enabling child abusers. The book also examines the generally disappointing treatment of this issue in popular media, while dissecting the institutions that contribute to the cover-ups, including two--rabbinic courts and local Orthodox "patrols"--that are more or less unique to Orthodox Jewish communities. Finally, the book explores the cultural factors that have contributed to this tragedy, and concludes with hopes and proposals for future reform.

Author : Kalman Dubov
Publisher : Kalman Dubov
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual Abuse & Protection of Predators in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community written by Kalman Dubov and published by Kalman Dubov. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevalence of sexual predation in the Orthodox Jewish community has traditionally been to not report to secular authorities. The pejorative term applied to one who violates this norm and informs authorities of pedophilia and criminally aberrant activity is 'mosur.' This term is applied with harsh denigration. From a Jewish legal point of view, the mosur is subject to the death penalty by any Jew, anywhere Jews reside and applies in an extra-judicial manner, without prior review by any Jewish authority, and is applicable today. Rabbinic legal authorities determine that the life of the predator, and by extension, of the community, takes precedence over the victim regardless of the cost to the victim. In such a setting, the victim has no recourse. If s/he goes forward to report the abuse, the mosur charge will apply. Maintaining silence means not being able to access health professionals to ameliorate the violations that occurred, and the predator is thereby free to abuse others and to do so with impunity. The origins of this legal framework stem from Jews living in the Diaspora and is not mandated Biblically. This framework, I contend, is based on considerations of survival so the predator is protected and the community remains safe from anti-Semitic governments. Survival was deemed the highest priority regardless of the individual costs present. The flashpoint of this scandal took place in Australia with the establishment of the Australian Royal Commission to receive testimony on abuse of institutionalized children. Initially, aberrant acts against minors by Roman Catholic Church prelates, both Diocesan and Order were examined. The Commission also heard of Chabad rabbis who implemented the mosur mindset, to not report crimes of sexual abuse in their schools, while minimizing the effect such abuse had on the victims. Two specific cases are discussed, one in the United States and the second in Australia. In both instances, the accused escaped justice by going to Israel. The Australian case became an international cause célèbre when the Melbourne Jewish school that had employed her paid for and arranged details of the flight. It was only after years of delay and legal maneuvering, including charges of interference by a senior cabinet member, that the accused was finally extradited to Australia, now awaiting her criminal trial. The case in the United States reflects a similar escape, with the accused now residing in Israel. How did the mosur phenomenon come about? The book proposes a theory of the Doctrine of Temporary Residence as the basis for the law. Based on a Diaspora mindset, that framework no longer applies since justice in the free world is fair, impartial, and not anti-Semitic. The prohibition of not turning over a Jewish predator for criminal prosecution therefore no longer has validity. The new and recent phenomenon where communal leaders seem to advocate greater care and concern for the victim of these crimes is a refreshing development.

Author : Michael Lesher
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 191320104X
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surfaces written by Michael Lesher and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Lesher's Surfaces is a celebration of what might be called the central paradox of poetry: that every attempt to plumb the depths of lived experience must begin, and end, in the impenetrable surface world of words printed on paper. Somehow, the shape of a collection of letters placed on a page, and the sounds they produce when pronounced, have to convey a sense of the most inward levels of experience. This would appear impossible, and the collection's introductory quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "Give me truths;/for I am weary of the surfaces, /and die of inanition" -- only underscores the difficulty. Yet the goal of these poems is precisely to find those "truths" not by fleeing the surface of poetry -- line, rhythm, diction, and so on -- but by embracing it. And in doing so, of course, to reveal beauty as well.

Author : Amy Neustein
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656715
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tempest in the Temple written by Amy Neustein and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave collection of essays by rabbis, educators, lawyers, and psychotherapists on sexual abuse within the Jewish clergy

Author : Jasun Horsley
Publisher : Aeon Books
ISBN 13 : 1911597132
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vice of Kings written by Jasun Horsley and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's "post-truth" world, we are becoming inundated with fantasy fictions, "alternate news," and grossly oversimplified (and wildly exaggerated) conspiracy theories that identify cryptocratic power structures ruling our fates. But suppose the truth is both stranger than any fiction and more nuanced and disturbing than any theory? Suppose it is not conspiracy but complicity that creates our world?Beginning as an investigation into the author's childhood inside a closet aristocracy of "progressive" British entrepreneurs, The Vice of Kings uncovers a history both disturbingly personal and shockingly universal. By juxtaposing disc jockey Jimmy Savile's secret cultural, criminal, and political affiliations in the second half of the 20th century with the life and teachings of Aleister Crowley in the first, it uncovers an alarming body of evidence that organized child abuse is not only the dark side of occultism, but the shadowy secret at the heart of culture, both ancient and modern.

Author : Arnold Dashefsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319245058
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Jewish Year Book 2015 written by Arnold Dashefsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Year Book, now in its 115th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities and is the Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities. The first two chapters of Part I examine Jewish immigrant groups to the US and Jewish life on campus. Chapters on “National Affairs” and “Jewish Communal Affairs” analyze the year’s events. Three chapters analyze the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and world Jewish populations. Part II provides Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, social service agencies, national organizations, overnight camps, museums, and Israeli consulates. The final chapters present national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media; academic resources, including Jewish Studies Programs, books, articles websites, and research libraries; and lists of major events in the past year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries. For those interested in the North American Jewish community—scholars, service providers, volunteers—this volume undoubtedly provides the single best source of information on the structure, dynamics, and ongoing religious, political, and social challenges confronting the community. It should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in monitoring the dynamics of change in the Jewish communities of North America. Sidney Goldstein, Founder and Director, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, and Alice Goldstein, Population Studies and Traini ng Center, Brown University The American Jewish Year Book is a unique and valuable resource for Jewish community professionals. It is part almanac, directory, encyclopedia and all together a volume to have within easy reach. It is the best, concise diary of trends, events, and personalities of interest for the past year. We should all welcome the Year Book’s publication as a sign of vitality for the Jewish community. Brenda Gevertz, Executive Director, JPRO Network, the Jewish Professional Resource Organization

Author : Maxine L. Margolis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538134039
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Fundamentalism written by Maxine L. Margolis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Fundamentalism examines the striking similarities in three extreme fundamentalist religious communities in their views about and treatment of women

Author : Michael J. Salamon
Publisher : Urim Publications
ISBN 13 : 9655241378
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abuse in the Jewish Community written by Michael J. Salamon and published by Urim Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this guide, psychologist Michael Salamon offers definitions of abuse and describes signs that should indicate to parents, teachers, and school officials that abuse might be occurring. Basic information about available methods of treatment is provided and the unique cultural conditions in the Orthodox Jewish community that make prevention and treatment so difficult is discussed.

Author : David Mandel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602801653
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Silence written by David Mandel and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: