Weberman's case may very well be our community's most important abuse trial during our lifetimes

Nechemia Weberman's Trial is on October 30th: Come to the Hearing - and Understand What Went Terribly Wrong By: Rabbi Yakov Horowitz Dur...

The link between childhood trauma and adult outcomes was striking

In the 1990s, Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda conducted a study on adverse childhood experiences. They asked 17,000 mostly white, mostly ups...

The leaders who cover up the abuse must be held accountable as well (regardless of the color shmattes they wear)

 Dear Paul, I'm a Catholic and I take my kids to church every Sunday. Church is supposed to be a safe place. But Bishop Robert Finn, who...

Looks Like The Guy From Ocean Parkway, No?

 CLICK: http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2012/sep/27/6/priest-charged-sex-abuse-expected-appear-court-ar-1187168/                                 ...

Tell The Supreme Court Sholom Rubashkin Does NOT Deserve a Life Sentence!

On the eve of Yom Kippur, please take the time to sign this petition on behalf of Sholom Rubashkin. He has committed serious crimes, but doe...

Rosh Hashanah 5773 -- Who Are You?

We confront G-d as individuals on Rosh Hashanah, and not as members of a group. His first question will be the same as that of the assistant...

Agudath Israel & A Deadly Ritual - Both Must Be Abolished!

If you want to understand just how religious authoritarianism harms children, look no further than the actions of a powerful group of rabbis...

NYC Approves Ritual Circumcision Consent Form

After the deaths of two children who contracted the herpes virus through an ultra-orthodox practice of circumcision, the New York City Board...

Rosh Hashana Greetings to our Heilige Survivors

by Rabbi Yakov Horowitz As we prepare to stand before Hashem in the days to come, and daven (pray) for ourselves, our families and all of Kl...

Those Goyim! They Sound As Confused As The Jews!

In the wake of the first conviction of a Catholic bishop in the decades-long clergy sex abuse crisis, bishops throughout the country have to...

Never The Ultra-Orthodox....

Suffer The Children Just how flagrant does a pedophile need to be before the people around him contact the police? Just how far beyond seemi...

The Welfare State is Not In Our Welfare! A Government That Gives You Everything is a Government That Will Eventually Take It All Away!

Regular readers of these pages are most likely strong supporters in the safety net programs set up in the New Deal, Great Society and now Ob...

In the Torah it does not say, “And on Wednesday, God created many, many suns that from afar will look like many, many stars whose light will reach Earth after light-years of travel......”

Every day we lose an untold amount of kids because of their inability to reconcile Torah and science. Thanks to the yeshivas and Bais Yaakov...

"Zero Tolerance" is Zero!

Exchange words Gadol, Rabbi, Torah, Yeshiva, Synagogue... for the Catholic versions and we have the identical group of criminals who could c...