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Comments (0)New York Gov. David Paterson approved a plan to give $500,000 in state money to help identify and treat sex abuse victims in New York’s Orthodox Jewish community.
Paterson backed the expenditure from the state’s Department of Children and Family Services to set up an organization called Shomrei Yeladim, Hebrew for “guards of the children,” The New York Jewish Week reported last Friday.
The organization would distribute education materials to yeshivas and other Jewish institutions, as well as set up workshops to help deal with pedophilia in the Orthodox community.
The money, which will be administered by the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, would pay for counseling for abuse victims.
Hadassah Reaches Deal with Hospital Director
Hadassah: The Women’s Zionist Organization of America and the director general of its hospital in Jerusalem have reached what both sides are describing as an “amicable agreement” about the doctor’s future.
Shlomo Mor-Yosef and Hadassah officials met March 4 in New York, and apparently reached an agreement, but Hadassah is not making the decision public until later this month, according to a media release.
The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday that it learned that Mor-Yosef’s contract had been extended by about two years, through 2012, when the 14-story tower at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem Ein Kerem is set to open. Bar-Yosef was in on the planning of the tower since its inception.
The Post does not say under what parameters he would be staying.
Mor-Yosef had tendered his resignation in January, and it was accepted by the hospital’s board and Hadassah, but it caused a stir among the hospital’s staff.
The Post cited “those close to Mor-Yosef,” as saying he was “satisfied” with the March 4 meeting’s outcome.
The doctors’ union at the hospital, in protesting the resignation, had claimed that Mor-Yosef was pushed out by Hadassah leaders in the United States. Hadassah officials have countered that Mor-Yosef resigned on his own.
Mor-Yosef has never said whether he was pushed out, but after a long silence, late last week he asked for a two-year extension on his contract, which expires at the end of this year.
Mor-Yosef was then summoned to New York to the meeting in New York with Hadassah President Nancy Falchuk. In advance of the meeting, the doctors’ union began demanding that Hadassah extend Mor-Yosef’s expiring contract by five years.
Cubs Can Have Yom Kippur Concerts at Wrigley
The Chicago Cubs will be permitted to hold back-to-back rock concerts at Wrigley Field on Yom Kippur as long as they minimize conflict with three nearby synagogues.
The Chicago City Council’s License Committee agreed Wednesday night to approve the concerts for Friday and Saturday nights, Sept. 17 and 18, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Yom Kippur begins at sundown Sept. 17.
While there is little concern that the performances, one of which is rumored to be the Dave Matthews Band, will be heard inside the synagogues and disrupt services, there is concern over parking in the area. Fans and worshipers will likely arrive in the area at approximately the same time.
The synagogues in question are Modern Orthodox, Conservative and Reform.
The Cubs are considering providing a parking lot and shuttle buses for worshipers to get to the synagogues, according to the Sun-Times.
The Sept. 18 concert will be pushed until after sunset, when Yom Kippur ends, according to the Sun-Times.