Anti-Semitism, Sexual Abuse, and The Jewish Community
Over the years there have been many reasons why the Jewish Community kept silent about sexual crimes committed by individuals in our community. To this day there is a legitimate reason why we may want...
View ArticleSexual Abuse: Getting Your Community To Talk
Ever since starting The Awareness Center we have been getting a lot of feedback from various rabbis around the world. There seems to be one common theme in most of the letters. It appears there’s a...
View ArticleAdult Survivors of Child Abuse: Surviving Passover
There are many issues surrounding holidays and childhood sexual abuse that have rarely if ever been addressed in our communities. One of those issues pertains directly to surviving Jewish holidays....
View ArticlePassover Prayer On Behalf of Abused and Neglected Children
The following prayer was written for protective parents and their loved ones, child abuse advocates, and all who care about children to recite at their passover seder. A spring onion is added to the...
View ArticleGuidelines For Disciplining Children Who Have Been Abused
Disciplining children who have been abused can be a real challenge! And while there is no single method which has been proven to work for all children, the following tips represent what mental health...
View ArticleNo Resolution for Jewish Survivors of Sex Crimes
Over the past thirty years of being involved in the anti-rape movement, I’ve worked with hundreds of survivors of clergy abuse from just about every faith. Though each religion has its own beliefs and...
View ArticleAntisemitism: A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew
Everyday in the news we hear about new cases where Jews are being targeted by hate crimes. As Jews we need to stop dividing ourselves into categories. Instead we need to find ways to unite as a people....
View ArticleAttention: Jewish Maryland – Child Sexual Abuse and the Statue of Limitations
After twenty years of trying to get a bill past, on April 12, 2023 Maryland’s Governor Wes Moore signed the Child Victim Act 2023 into law, making it possible for adult survivors of child sexual abuse...
View ArticleMy experiences with the Klan
With the increase of hate crimes against Jews, I’m reminded of two experiences I had many years ago with members of the Ku Klux Klan. I grew up as a secular Jew in Skokie, IL. A town in which had more...
View ArticleRemembering to Exhale
Don’t you just hate it when you’re upset, and someone tells you to take a deep breath and exhale? I know for myself that used to be the last thing I wanted to hear. I remember thinking yeah right, what...
View ArticleWhen a family member has been abducted by Hamas
My heart is breaking for all of Israel. Just about every Jewish American has family member or friends who lives in Israel. The vast majority of Jews worldwide have been contacting everyone they know...
View Article#MeToo except if you’re a Jew – Antisemitism in the Anti-Rape Movement
The year before I got my start in anti-rape movement, a legal definitions for sex crimes was created (H.R.4876 – Sexual Assault Act of 1984). It wasn’t until nearly 20 years later that the first...
View ArticleSupport for male hostages who were sexually assaulted by Hamas
One of my goals in this series of articles is to break the myth that professional and survivor organizations, along with women’s groups don’t care about those who were sexually victimized by Hamas in...
View ArticleHamas, human trafficking and those being held hostage In Gaza
The American Psychological Association states that 7 in 10 human trafficking victims are women and girls. While boys and men are victims as well, most individuals identified as trafficked for both...
View ArticleClergy Sexual Abuse within Hamas
Over the years we have heard repeated accounts of Muslim clerics within ISIS, Hezbollah and Hamas sanctioning their followers to rape and torture women, children and men as a tool of terrorizing the...
View ArticleMind Control: Pro Palestinians and MAGA Republicans
This video is an example of how “GroupThink” works. Over the last several years there has been a dramatic increase of hate crimes committed against individuals who are not White Christian Nationals or...
View ArticleWhat Wearing Dog Tags Honoring the Hostages Can Teach Us
Back in November I was in the Chicagoland area for a short visit. Like many others, my thoughts and prayer’s were and still are with Israel, the hostage’s and their family members. I wanted to do...
View ArticleCivil Rights of Women or the Civil Rights of Jews
Never in a million years did I think Americans would have to choose between women’s rights and the civil rights of Jews. As a liberal minded, feminist Jew, I have always supported the civil rights of a...
View ArticleAm I still considered to be American, or am I only seen as a Jew?
I always thought of myself as an American, who happens to be Jewish. I never thought about making one descriptor more important then the other. Both of my grandmothers were born in Chicago, along with...
View ArticleHersh Goldberg Polin – Hamas murdered a part of my DNA
I am speechless. I don’t have the words to express the degree of anger and devastation I feel after learning Hamas executed my cousin Hersh. I was really hopeful Hersh would make it home to the arms...
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