tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post1341962338546536227..comments2024-03-26T14:34:28.415-07:00Comments on Religion and Child Abuse News: Ban of Orthodox blog by rabbis could change views on handling sex abusePerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-89990734081327145472013-08-08T14:33:20.450-07:002013-08-08T14:33:20.450-07:00Judge Deals Setback to Ex-Students Suing Yeshiva f...Judge Deals Setback to Ex-Students Suing Yeshiva for $380M Over Sex Abuse Claims<br /><br />Refuses To Allow Plaintiff's Lawyer To Probe School<br /><br />By Paul Berger, Forward, The Jewish Daily August 08, 2013<br /><br />Twelve alumni of Yeshiva University have joined 19 other former students who are suing the Modern Orthodox flagship university for allegedly covering up decades of sexual Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62532996612779899042013-08-08T14:25:38.017-07:002013-08-08T14:25:38.017-07:0012 More Students Join $380M Sex Abuse Suit Against...12 More Students Join $380M Sex Abuse Suit Against Yeshiva University<br /><br />Lawsuit Widens as Yeshiva Seeks Dismissal of Case<br /><br />By Seth Berkman, August 07, 2013<br /><br />Twelve more former students of Yeshiva University High School for Boys who claimed that they were molested by staff members have joined a $380 million lawsuit against the school.<br /><br />The additioan cases Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-54107220510351636202013-07-24T15:24:12.515-07:002013-07-24T15:24:12.515-07:00Chabad Yeshiva Teacher David Kramer Gets 3 Years f...Chabad Yeshiva Teacher David Kramer Gets 3 Years for Australia Sex Abuse<br /><br />Could Be Free in Just 90 Days With Time Served<br /><br />By JTA, The Jewish Daily Forward July 24, 2013<br /><br />David Kramer, a former teacher at the Yeshivah College day school in Melbourne, Australia, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for sexually assaulting four students.<br /><Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-12693636553637915342013-07-23T09:58:51.165-07:002013-07-23T09:58:51.165-07:00Back then there was less alarm about, and understa...Back then there was less alarm about, and understanding of, child molestation, he said. Back then he was also steering Yeshiva through grave financial hardship. A sex-abuse scandal wouldn’t have been a great fund-raising tool.<br /><br />“The school made the conscious and craven decision to protect its reputation,” Kevin Mulhearn, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs, told me Monday.<br /><br /Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-51143923906609771062013-07-23T09:58:44.260-07:002013-07-23T09:58:44.260-07:00The Faithful’s Failings
By FRANK BRUNI New York ...The Faithful’s Failings<br /><br />By FRANK BRUNI New York Times July 22, 2013<br /><br />The men were spiritual leaders, held up before the children around them as wise and righteous and right. So they had special access to those kids. Special sway.<br /><br />And when they exploited it by sexually abusing the children, according to civil and criminal cases from different places and periods, Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76380878584033521802013-07-11T16:22:36.513-07:002013-07-11T16:22:36.513-07:00Yeshiva hit with $380 million abuse lawsuit
by Da...Yeshiva hit with $380 million abuse lawsuit<br /><br />by David Gibson, Religion News Service July 10, 2013<br /><br />NEW YORK (RNS) Nineteen former students of a high school run by Yeshiva University, the flagship school of Orthodox Judaism, have filed a $380 million federal lawsuit over what they claim are hundreds of acts of abuse by two rabbis in the 1970s and 1980s.<br /><br />The lawsuitPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62028693284309051512013-07-03T15:36:37.247-07:002013-07-03T15:36:37.247-07:00His discussion of the abuse episodes also took up ...His discussion of the abuse episodes also took up just four paragraphs in a lengthy six-page reflection on his tenure.<br /><br />The university said in a statement released to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Monday that Lamm had agreed to leave three years ago when his contract expired in June 30 of this year. The current YU president, Richard M. Joel, released a brief statement that made no Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-49564858838963349212013-07-03T15:36:29.987-07:002013-07-03T15:36:29.987-07:00Yeshiva University’s Norman Lamm resigns amid sex ...Yeshiva University’s Norman Lamm resigns amid sex abuse scandal<br /><br />by David Gibson, Religion News Service July 1, 2013<br /><br />NEW YORK (RNS) The chancellor and head of the seminary at Yeshiva University, the flagship U.S. school for Orthodox Judaism, resigned his posts on Monday (July 1) and acknowledged that he had mishandled sex abuse allegations against staff members in the 1980s.Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com