Rape Statistics for College 1995 2013 by US Government
See Slate's article how Title IX has changed dealing with sexual abuse charges
See Slate's article how Title IX has changed dealing with sexual abuse charges
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Sunday, December 14, 2014
Perspectives on Disclosing Rape Victims' Names By Deborah Denno
Helen Boyle in Rape and the Media: Victim's Rights to Anonymity and Effects of Technology on the Standard of Rape Coverage', European Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2012 wrote:
In the UK, victims of rape or serious sexual assault have unequivocal anonymity and protection from media intrusion under section 1 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992. This is a statutory exception under Art 10(2) which allows for derogations on the basis of protecting the rights and freedoms of others. This means the names of victims of rape or sexual assault cannot be reported by the media. In the United States, no equivalent law exists; victims of sexual assault rely on a 'conspiracy of silence' in the media to protect their privacy according to Denno. [13] This is based on the media's recognition that rape is more 'personal, traumatic, and stigmatizing than most crimes' [Denno, p1113, 1992]. If the media decide to break this rule of silence the courts will defend their right to do so. The US Supreme Court, to date, has always protected the media's right to release the name of a victim of sexual assault under the First Amendment. [...]
Saturday, December 13, 2014
The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind
NY Times Working, in America, is in decline. The share of prime-age men — those
25 to 54 years old — who are not working has more than tripled since the
late 1960s, to 16 percent. More recently, since the turn of the
century, the share of women without paying jobs has been rising, too.
The United States, which had one of the highest employment rates among
developed nations as recently as 2000, has fallen toward the bottom of
the list.
As
the economy slowly recovers from the Great Recession, many of those men
and women are eager to find work and willing to make large sacrifices
to do so. Many others, however, are choosing not to work, according to a
New York Times/CBS News/Kaiser Family Foundation poll that provides a detailed look at the lives of the 30 million Americans 25 to 54 who are without jobs.
Many
men, in particular, have decided that low-wage work will not improve
their lives, in part because deep changes in American society have made
it easier for them to live without working. These changes include the
availability of federal disability benefits; the decline of marriage,
which means fewer men provide for children; and the rise of the
Internet, which has reduced the isolation of unemployment.
At
the same time, it has become harder for men to find higher-paying jobs.
Foreign competition and technological advances have eliminated many of
the jobs in which high school graduates like Mr. Walsh once could earn
$40 an hour, or more. The poll found that 85 percent of prime-age men
without jobs do not have bachelor’s degrees. And 34 percent said they
had criminal records, making it hard to find any work.
The resulting absence of millions of potential workers has serious
consequences not just for the men and their families but for the nation
as a whole. A smaller work force is likely to lead to a slower-growing
economy, and will leave a smaller share of the population to cover the
cost of government, even as a larger share seeks help.
Why U.S. Women Are Leaving Jobs Behind
NY Times Since Kerry Devine, 32, and her friends began having children, she has
noticed a stark difference between her female friends in Auburn, Wash.,
where she lives, and those in England and Cyprus, where she grew up. In
the United States, they almost all stopped working outside the home, at
least until their children were in school. Yet, she says, she can’t
think of a friend in Europe who left work after her children were born. [...]
Her story would have played out differently, she said, if she had been
living in her native England. Like many European countries, Britain
offers a year of maternity leave, much of it paid, and protections for
part-time workers, among other policies aimed at keeping women employed.
“I
would have been O.K. putting a 1-year-old baby in day care, but not a
12-week-old,” Ms. Devine said. “More flexible hours and being able to
work from home part of the time definitely would have made a big
difference.”
a
Her
thinking is shared by many American women — and plays a role in a
significant economic reversal. As recently as 1990, the United States
had one of the top employment rates in the world for women, but it has
now fallen behind many European countries. After climbing for six
decades, the percentage of women in the American work force peaked in
1999, at 74 percent for women between 25 and 54. It has fallen since, to
69 percent today. [...]
Female haredi activists to haredi factions: Allow us to run, or we'll boycott
YNET A large number of haredi women are demanding that the political parties representing their sector allow women on their electoral lists for the first time in Israel's history.
The struggle began on Facebook – under the slogan "no votes without representation", around 3,000 members of the social network have called for women to boycott the haredi factions in their current formulation.
The feminist campaign was ramped up Friday morning by an open letter from a prominent public action group to the leaders of Shas and United Torah Judaism that formally outlined demands. [...]
Some haredi women are active in the political arena, but not as MKs. Menachem Moses of United Torah Judaism has a female haredi aide, and even President Reuven Rivlin has a female haredi bureau chief – Rivka Ravitz, widow of the late MK Avraham Ravitz.
Will female MKs from the haredi sector join them in March? Time will tell. Meanwhile, Shas and United Torah Judaism refused to react to the open letter.
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"A woman should not dare to approach a secular party"
bhol
Renowned educator Rabbi Mordechai Blau, a senior at Yahadut Hatorah, declares today (Sunday) that "Every woman who will approach a party other than those led by Gedolei Yisrael - will be divorced without a ketuba and her children will not be accepted to educational institutions, as well as to purchase any product from, and will be ordered to remove her children from institutions ". [...]
The struggle began on Facebook – under the slogan "no votes without representation", around 3,000 members of the social network have called for women to boycott the haredi factions in their current formulation.
The feminist campaign was ramped up Friday morning by an open letter from a prominent public action group to the leaders of Shas and United Torah Judaism that formally outlined demands. [...]
Some haredi women are active in the political arena, but not as MKs. Menachem Moses of United Torah Judaism has a female haredi aide, and even President Reuven Rivlin has a female haredi bureau chief – Rivka Ravitz, widow of the late MK Avraham Ravitz.
Will female MKs from the haredi sector join them in March? Time will tell. Meanwhile, Shas and United Torah Judaism refused to react to the open letter.
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"A woman should not dare to approach a secular party"
bhol
Renowned educator Rabbi Mordechai Blau, a senior at Yahadut Hatorah, declares today (Sunday) that "Every woman who will approach a party other than those led by Gedolei Yisrael - will be divorced without a ketuba and her children will not be accepted to educational institutions, as well as to purchase any product from, and will be ordered to remove her children from institutions ". [...]
Friday, December 12, 2014
Frum Follies' lack of integrity in his slanderous claims against me
Frum Follies seems to have no more real issues to write about and has started attacking me with make-believe charges that arouse his groupies like sharks smelling blood. It is not enough that he makes up lies in the Meisels case - as I have documented. It seems now that he is attacking me in retaliation for exposing his lies. lies 1 lies 2 lies 3
Yesterday he ran a post that falsely claimed that “Only-a-Hug” Eidensohn Christens Meisels a “Respected Rabbi” I did not say that Meisels was guilty only of a hug and I didn't christen Meisels a respected rabbi. I said that despite the charges in the lawsuit that Meisels was running the seminaries solely to provide girls for his sexual appetites it seemed that he was only guilty of inexcusable hugs. The word "only" was clearly indicating that relative to the in initial charges the reality was much less. I clearly and repeated have said that Meisels misdeeds required that he be removed from the seminaries and educational activities. Lopin himself stated elsewhere on his blog that there was no such thing as "only a hug" for an Orthodox Jew - and yet said in this post that it was question as to whether I was saying it was only a hug or it an inexcusable hug. The answer was obvious to him - but it served the purpose of inciting his readers to make derogatory comments about me - which is clearly reason why he wrote it.
I didn't "christen Meisels a respected Rabbi" - I stated the obvious that when he committed his crimes he was a respected rabbi. I nowhere stated that he is a respected rabbi now - I challenged him to produce evidence for such a claim - which he hasn't.
Today he is back with a claim that since I moderate all comments that maybe I approve of a comment which encourages harassment of witnesses! Stop the Witness Intimidation by Meisels Defenders The comment that appears on my blog simply made a one line suggestion that if the anonymous plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Meisels are found out to be liars their names should be exposed. I of course agree with the standard procedure of not publicizing the names of victims and witnesses. Furthermore I approve many comments which I don't agree with - such as the infantile slander from Truthseeker but this wasn't an outrageous comment. The comment wasn't a call to action of vigilantes to determine the validity of the lawsuit. it wasn't a call for a lynch mob to uncover the identity of victims and witnesses to silence them. It was simply a suggestion that if the lawsuit is judged by the court to be false - that the plaintiffs names should be exposed. Again the only justification for Lopin's making a post out of it was to slander me - not to discuss issues or protect anyone.
In both cases - despite my protests to him about the slanderous nature of these posts and directly explaining why the posts are false - he still hasn't removed them. What slander will he figure out next.
It is also interesting to note that there are no objections against what he is doing by fellow abuse activists such as Rabbi Yosef Blau, David Morris or Harry Maryles. In fact the Chicago activist Dorron Katzin selected both the "only a hug" post and the "intimidation" post to distribute to his private group of abuse activists - without presenting any of my posts explaining my side of the story. It is clear that they have decided that I am a pariah for supporting the IBD beis din's activities in the Meisels scandal. It seems that slander and distorting the truth - in the name of "protecting all alleged abusive victims" - is no vice.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Chabad of California to pay for misusing federal funds
Sacramento Bee A federal judge in Sacramento ruled late Tuesday that the California
branch of one of the world’s largest Jewish religious organizations
misappropriated grant funds and now must pay $844,985 in damages and
penalties.
U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. found that Chabad of
California violated the federal False Claims Act with bogus statements
and certifications in connection with money it obtained through the
Urban Areas Security Initiative: Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which
provides funding for security upgrades to eligible nonprofits.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security program is administered here through the California Emergency Management Agency.
In a 21-page order, England found that Chabad knowingly failed to
comply with grant requirements and falsely assured the government that
it had written procedures to regulate the use of the funds.[...]
“Rabbi Cunin made it clear that the absence of policies was not an
oversight” and “conceded that he never planned to safeguard the grant
advances and ensure that funds so received were used only to pay
authorized grant costs,” England said.
Cunin “treated the grant advances as if they were gifts to Chabad
that, once paid by Cal EMA, were ‘no longer the business of the
government,’” England said, quoting the rabbi’s deposition testimony.
“(Cunin’s) cavalier attitude shows, at minimum, a reckless disregard.” [...]
The whistleblowers, Aria Kozak and his wife, Donna Kozak, of Santa
Monica, through their company, Elite Interactive Solutions, installed
state-of-the-art video surveillance equipment in several Chabad of
California facilities, but were not paid for the work despite repeated
requests, according to Hirst. [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
More Frum Follies lies and distortions - this time regarding my view of Meisels
We have recently witnessed a series of blatant lies from Frum Follies regarding the Meisels scandal. See Dynamic of lynch mob mentality regarding abuse
It is important to note that despite Lopin's transgressions of normal standards of honest reporting and discussion - not one of his fellow advocates - has criticized his blatant lies or even acknowledged them. It seems that as long as an advocate attacks people whose views differ from that of the advocates - it is considered legitimate.
Lie 1) He has claimed that Rabbi Kahane and Rebbezin Ullman have been demoted by the joint beis din.
Truth: The members of the joint beis din told me that "his statement is a lie". That they made no ruling on demoting either of them nor did they find evidence that either had done anything deserving demotion.
See Psak of Joint Beis Din
Lie 2) He claimed that Adina Cohen who wrote a strong letter defending Meisels was currently a madricha for Rabbi Kahane at Chedvas seminary. That her employment by Rabbi Kahane's showed his disregard for the well being of his students andthe incompetence of the IBD for allowing it. That this employment showed that support was still strong at the seminaries for Meisel and thus contrary to the ruling of the joint beis din - Meisels still continued to have strong support there. Therefore the seminaries were obviously unsafe - contrary to the ruling of the joint beis din.
Truth: In fact Adina Cohen is not currently a madricha of for Rabbi Kahane's seminary and never was. She is in fact not presently employed by any of the 4 seminaries. She WAS a madricha at Binas seminary - but again she is no longer working there but lives in Baltimore. Thus her letter writing activity shows nothing about the unsafeness of the seminaries or that the joint beis din is incompetent.
Blog Post about Frum Follies and Adina Cohen
Lie 3) He just wrote a post falsely titled "Only-a-Hug" Eidensohn Christens Meisels a "Respected Rabbi".
Truth :I did not "christen" Meisels a respected rabbi - he was in fact a widely respected rabbi when he committed his crime. That is all I said. However he is no longer a respected rabbi and I challenge Lopin to show evidence for his statement indicating that I consider that he is currently a respected rabbi. Furthermore I didn't say his crime was insignificant being "only a hug".
I was contrasting what the CBD had claimed as a massive sex scandal with the rape of 40 girls with what the evidence at present shows that his crime was an inexcusable hug. The word "only" was to show in contrast to a massive sex scandal where the seminaries sole purpose was to provide for Meisels sexual satisfaction - his actual crime was much less significant. Not that it was insignificant. This is the actual quote.
Now that the Seminary scandal is winding down or rather unraveling from a story of a massive sex scandal where a respected rabbi was accused in federal court of running four seminaries for the sole purpose of having girls available for his sexual satisfaction to a growing realization that it was only an inexcusable hug given by a respected rabbi to a student after which he was promptly kicked out by the staff and he readily acknowledged his misdeed in front of beis din. Headlines of seminaries being run as houses of prostitution has become nothing more than an inappropriate hug.
Thus Lopin deliberately cherry picked my words - taking them out of clear context to make a false statement about my beliefs. This is the excerpt from the post.
“Only-a-Hug” Eidensohn Christens Meisels a “Respected Rabbi”
“It was only an inexcusable hug given by a respected rabbi to a student,” writes Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn on his blog in discussing the misconduct of Elimelech Meisels. Was it “only” or inexcusable? He is trying to have it both ways. Yes he was kicked out but if people believe it was only a hug he may be able to eventually stage a comeback claiming therapy and teshuvah (repentance). In fact it was much more than a hug. [...]
Daniel Eidensohn, please admit that Mr. Meisels is a disgraced sexual assailant guilty of much, much more than a hug. He is a serial sexual predator, not a “respected rabbi.”
Lopin is fully aware that a hug in the Orthodox world is very serious and that any educator who hugged females students would be automatically fired and never be allowed into chinuch again. He in fact stated on his blog that in the frum world there is no such thing as "just a hug" for an Orthodox Jew. Yet he deceitfully pretends that he is genuinely puzzled what I might mean.
He compounds his deceit by pretending that even after Meisels has been shown to have committed serious sexual transgressions that I fully respect Meisels as a Rabbi. He knows that is a lie - and yet he states it anyway.
It is obvious that Lopin is stooping to disgusting smear tactics in order to discredit me as well as my views - as well as others involved in the Meisels scandal.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe Discussing Mothers and Children
Help Beth
Part of the transcript: "It is the mother who carries the child for nine months with all the pain involved the entire development and growth....is dependent on the mother's exertion. Therefore, by common sense - even if the child were not fully dependent on the mother for the first several years of life - the child's very existence, its development in the womb and its birth depended completely on the mother.... Common sense dictates that this is reason for the mother's nationality to determine the child's. So a group of men come along - and what is mire bizarre, some women - and have decided that they'll rearrange the natural order. They insist that the mother is irrelevant, but rather if the father is of a certain nationality, then this should determine the child's people. This defies logic, it defies common sense. The greatest injustice, the greatest crime that can be perpetrated upon a mother is to rob her of her child for whom she toiled through the pains of pregnancy and labor for nine months, with the sheer will to bring a child into the world. Now a few people come along and say: "No! Why should it be this way? We will gather a committee and decide this by vote. And with the committee's vote we will change the nature of another couple's child." It is unheard of! This is not a religious issue - although it is certainly fundamental to Judaism - it affects even those who, for whatever reason, are not involved in Judaism or who are non-Jewish, belonging to a different nation. When people are convening or organizing to "decide" to what People a child will belong - all the women of the entire world should raise an outcry - and certainly they eventually will - to categorically reject such a possibility."
Further discourse:
http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/livingtorah/player_cdo/aid/355453/jewish/The-Jewish-Woman-Part-1.htm
http://www.chabad.org/therebbe/livingtorah/player_cdo/aid/355453/jewish/The-Jewish-Woman-Part-2.htm
Schlesinger Twins: Who is Judge Konstanze Thau?
Help Beth Excerpts
Thau's Involvement in the case of the Schlesinger Twins
The Austrian newspaper, Heute, reported back in 2013: "This newspaper can now reveal the findings of our research: For months a high court judge (name known) has intervened on the side of the father (the high court judge is a good friend of the ex-husband)."
In fact, according to this post, "judge Konstanze Thau (who has no legal position in the case) was a family friend of Schlesinger's, and was advising him as admitted by Schlesinger in court and documented in the court transcripts."
Back in 2013, an investigation was lodged to investigate her involvement in the case although it is not clear whether any investigation was actually carried out or left to fade away. The article reads: 'Lawyer Dr Helmut Krenn said the case has been suspended while the court investigates whether the judge, Susanne Goettlicher, acted improperly by allowing another judge, Konstanze Thau, to intervene in the case. Dr Krenn said: “I applied to transfer the case to another court because of the intervention.”'
Judge Thau was frequently mentioned during the Debate in British Parliament as having made inappropriate communication with the people involved in the case.
Dr Ulrike Willinger (the psychologist responsible for writing a
since-discredited 80 page criticism of the mother which heavily
contributed to the 2011 custody decision) was an employee of Kenneth
Thau, Konstanze Thau's husband. It seems odd that the judge specifically
commissioned Dr Willinger to write the report and was never highlighted
as a conflict of interest. This raises even more questions as this
report has since been independently proven to be wildly inaccurate in
favor of Mr Schlesinger. The custody decision was never reversed despite
this underpinning report containing dubious findings.
There is further evidence to suggest that Konstanze Thau was working behind the scenes by the fact that Chabad Rabbi Biderman felt it necessary to forward the mother's private emails to her: http://helpbeth.blogspot.co.uk/p/court-document-rabbi-biderman-sent.html.
There is further evidence to suggest that Konstanze Thau was working behind the scenes by the fact that Chabad Rabbi Biderman felt it necessary to forward the mother's private emails to her: http://helpbeth.blogspot.co.uk/p/court-document-rabbi-biderman-sent.html.
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