Do the Orthodox protect child sex abusers?
The ongoing revelations of child sex abuse cases in Orthodox* communities continue to send...
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Do the Orthodox protect child sex abusers?
Do the Orthodox protect child sex abusers?
This is written in the style of a Harvard case study. It is an allegory; imagine a re...
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California School Asks 8th Graders To Debate Whether Hiroshima Happened
Following their earlier wildly successful but somewhat controversial debate exercise, a s...
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Ode to Grandparents
Today, 11 April, my family marks my father’s liberation from Buchenwald concentration ca...
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News about the community: a user’s guide
A couple of articles were published recently (in The Age and the Herald Sun) about the lat...
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Justice vs Community
Following the tragic death of a young member of the Melbourne Jewish community, there has...
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Saved from MH370?
Following the awful disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, an interesting story...
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Matthew McConaughey invokes God
How do you confuse and confound an auditorium full of rich, beautiful, self-important, f...
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Child Sexual Abuse advocacy losing its way?
It started last October, with the release of a statement by advocacy group Tzedek announci...
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Pekudei: Moshe and Accountability
In any not-for-profit venture, there are three groups of people involved: leaders, who ar...
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Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
After reading the responses to Rabbi Kennard’s original article (AJN, 31/1/2014), I felt...
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When good people do bad things
Orthodox communities all over the world continue to struggle with the wave of child sexual...
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