By Yehudis Fletcher of The New York Jewish Week , July 26, 2017 The following poem is a contemporary kinah, lamentation, written in commemoration of Tisha b’Av, the fast which commemorates the destruction [...]
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Now is as good a time as any to understand sexual assault in the realm of digital life. The US Department of Justice [...]
By Harry Mayles from Emes Ve-Emunah, September 24, 2015 By now it is rather well known that the Agudah Moetzes requires that all suspicions of child sexual abuse be first reported to a [...]
By Harry Mayles from Emes Ve-Emunah, December 02, 2014 Will This Be a Turning Point? Is there a rabbinic role in reporting sex abuse? The answer clearly is yes. Their [...]
Tackling a "Shondeh" By Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D. This is an article posted on the official site of OU is almost ten years old. Unfortunately it is as relevant [...]
Myth: Every marriage has a few fights now and then. Crying "abuse" is just a way to get attention. Reality: Abuse is not the same as normal marital arguments. Abuse [...]
Abuse or violence against males happens to men from all cultures and all walks of life. Figures suggest that as many as one in three victims of domestic violence are male. [...]
Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation. Different forms of this include: asking or pressuring [...]
Child abuse is the physical or psychological/emotional mistreatment of children. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) define child maltreatment as any act or series [...]
