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Our community is notorious for keeping quiet about abuse, said speakers at a discussion hosted by the Chevrah Kadisha on 3 December, but keeping it secret...
“In South Africa, one in three children is a victim of sexual abuse,” says a renowned child abuse activist who cannot be named for her security....
They want you to love them as much as they love themselves, so they build you up before they tear you down. Narcissists are hard to...
Child sexual abuse is a nightmare and it’s easy to think it will never happen to our kids and that it’s not something we need to...
Of late, our attention has been drawn to the scourge of sexual abuse within our communities both here and abroad, often with catastrophic outcomes. As a...
The Beth Din of South Africa this week issued a first-of-its-kind message urging survivors of child abuse not to be afraid to report cases which may...
Shockwaves have ripped through the community following the allegation on social media last week of a popular Hebrew teacher in Johannesburg who has been implicated in...
Understanding, confronting, and reporting sexual abuse is difficult and painful for any community. Leaders tend to want to close ranks and cover up any impropriety. Survivors...
As the devastating testimony of victims in the Chaim Walder case emerged a few weeks ago, I felt strongly that, as a community, we need to...
We’re heartbroken and devastated at the state of our community when it comes to sexual abuse, and the Chaim Walder debacle has had a deep impact....
עַל אֵלֶּה אֲנִי בוֹכִיָּה עֵינִי עֵינִי יֹרְדָה מַּיִם (For this I weep – tears stream from my eyes.) (Eicha/Lamentations 1:16) It’s this verse, that for so many...
When we hear the phrase “gender-based violence” (GBV), we automatically think people mean violence against women. But this is a mistake. In fact, the term GBV...
Two Johannesburg Jewish gender-abuse activists are at the centre of a battle to try stop an alleged rapist from preying on more young women travellers in...
He told his eight-year-old-self that he was so sorry for the horrors he would endure as the victim of sexual abuse for the decade that would...
“Adult male-on-male abuse is a worrying issue as more incidents involving innocent teenagers and young adult victims are brought to our attention,” said Rebbetzin Wendy Hendler...
