http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a15146/News/New_York.html Sex-Abuse Statute Of Limitations May Be Extended “Numerous studies have shown that victims of childhood sexual abuse typically cannot come forward for decades after the abuse occurred,� said Marci Hamilton, a professor at Car...

Rabbi Israel Weingarten listens as his daughter testifies during his federal trial for allegedly sexually abusing her starting when she was 9. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/03/02/2009-03-02_daughter_of_orthodox_rabbi_tells_court_o.html Daughter of Orthodox rabbi tells court of father...

While Mainstream Jews Debate Education Economic Crisis, Kiryas Joel Satmars Figured It All Out by Jonathan Mark New York - Satmar...scored $6.3 million from the stimulus bill for Kiryas Joel’s all-Jewish public school...The upstate Times Herald-Record (Feb. 12) reports that although Kiryas Joel is...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99913807 Abuse Scandal Plagues Hasidic Jews In Brooklyn by Barbara Bradley Hagerty Joel Engelman and Joe Diangelo are driving through their old Brooklyn neighborhood. Williamsburg is a place from another time and country. The shop signs are in Heb...

Lilit Marcus writes on Jewcy.com: A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on Jewcy about my Jewish identity - more specifically, about not knowing Hebrew and wondering if that made me less of a Jew. I also referenced the fact that my mother is not Jewish, which isn’t some big secret or anything, but w...

Yes, That is Right! You totally disgust me and many others with your foolish, dangerous ideology, and gross perversions of the Torah. The antipathy drools and frosts from your fat lips. Lips that move with a motion that betray the very victims who sought your help. You call yourself a Rabbi? Ha! You...

As reported The family of Aryeh Leibish Teitelboim, one of six people killed when the Chabad House in Mumbai was attacked by Islamist militants last week, has rejected Israel's offer to hold an official memorial ceremony for him along with the other Jewish and Israeli fatalities. That's their right....

New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/nyregion/13hikind.html?ref=nyregion November 13, 2008 Sexual Abuse Complaints Subpoenaed By PAUL VITELLO Since last year, when Assemblyman Dov Hikind invited his radio show listeners to discuss an explosive topic — sexual abuse of children in the Or...

The July 13 issue of New York magazine offers up a seamy tale that the city’s liberal, everything-goes-except-observing-our-religion Jews will eat up. Escape from the Holy Shtetl tells the story of Gitty Grunwald, a 23-year-old who last year fled from Kiryas Joel, the tightly run Satmar microcosm ...

Escape From the Holy Shtetl Gitty Grunwald fled the pious world of her mother to return to the secular city of her grandparents. There’s only one problem: The Satmars kept her daughter. A family saga of four generations of American Jews. I’m assuming everyone is talking about it because I go...