A scandal from the '80s is being brought up once again. At the Yeshiva University High School for Boys there were reported to be 2 rabbi's that were innapropiately conducting themselves with students. One rabbi was said to have knocked the student to the ground and sat on him, "goading him to wrestle." When the rabbi was questioned recently, he answered that he was breaking the tension between student and teacher. The other incident recently reported was that of a different rabbi who entered the students dorm room and inspected his genitalia" and "sodomized him with a toothbrush."
Both of these students were treated with little respect and in ways that would not be as easily dismissed nowadays. The article closes it well by saying that students are different these days. Students are not as quiet as they used to be.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/nyregion/report-of-sexual-abuse-rattles-manhattan-yeshiva-campus.html?pagewanted=1&ref=education
Natalie Newman
that's just sick why aren't the rabbi's in jail?
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ReplyDeleteOh my goodness. Well that is sad. But it is true, students are not as quiet nowadays. I think for the most part we have been taught to say something and speak up when something wrong happens. But wait, if this happened in the 80s, why is it being brought up again? That was like 30 years ago!
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