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New sex laws will help abuse prevention

Delmarva

Uncle John has been taking his nephew Steve on camping trips every weekend. The family knows John has a history of being a sexual predator, and they suspect he may be grooming the child for abuse.

In the recent past, Social Services could only help that child once it suspected he had been mistreated.

Not anymore. New laws passed this year in the wake of the horrific abuse and murder of a Salisbury girl address loopholes in the system that deals with sexual predators.

A panel of state employees who work with the sex offender registry, Child Protective Services and corrections spoke about some of those changes during a panel at Thursday's annual Maryland Association of Counties conference in Ocean City. The new laws will take effect Oct. 1. [...]

Abuse book - Dedication & synopsis

There are those of you who are still skeptical and cautious about
approving or supporting a book that you haven't read. Despite the many
posts about abuse that I have posted - you still are not sure what I am
doing and what my message is - or that I have the competence to produce
an appropriate book on the topic. That is entirely understandable
considering the horror and fear this topic elicits. To try to help you
understand the basic theme of the book - I am presenting the dedication
of the book. This summarizes the basic elements and message of the book.

Nefesh B'Nefesh & Aliyah

Five Towns Jewish Times

I personally witnessed them.  They were two men sitting in the first class section of an El Al flight headed toward Israel.  Between the two of them they were holding on to some very small items with an illegal street value of well over one million American dollars.

They were both busy.  And working through the night.  Everyone else on the flight seemed to be sleeping. 

Not them.

 They were using computers – each of them with a powerful late model notebook.  It seems that they were cataloguing.  The items were not theirs and I had never seen so many of these items in one spot.

They were doing something unique.  Something that no one else had ever done before, it seems.  This required another, more careful, look. [...]

Shavei Israel - outreach to Poles who cliaim Jewish roots

YNET

A group of 22 young Poles who recently discovered their Jewish roots arrived in Israel on Sunday for a special three-week educational seminar organized by the Shavei Israel non-profit organization.
 
The participants, most of whom were raised Catholic and are now in their 20s, came from an array of cities throughout Poland, primarily Krakow, Katowice, Warsaw, Tychy, Gdansk and Cieszyn. For some of the participants, this marks their first time visiting Israel. [...]

Europe and illegal immigrants

NYTimes

About 100 French riot police officers swooped down on an encampment of Roma here at 7 a.m. Thursday, taking names and filling out expulsion orders. Fully padded, but without helmets, the officers were aggressive but polite, accompanied by a Romanian policeman and three interpreters.

Mihai Lingurar, 37, and his wife, Rada-Soma Rostach, were ordered to leave France within a month for overstaying their three-month allowance as Romanian citizens and being unable to prove that they had full-time work. Their fourth child, however, Marc, 5 months old, is in intensive care at a hospital here, on the northeastern edge of Paris. Marc weighs about eight pounds and has been in and out of a coma.[...]

Rav Sternbuch:Preparing for Rosh Hashanah