http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en jkrznaric@alteryourview.com Copyright 2008 2008-09-30T20:22:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/shapiro_found_guilty/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/shapiro_found_guilty/#When:17:03:00Z Former bar mitzvah lessons teacher Israel Shapiro was found guilty of child sexual molestation and given five years probation last Monday morning, March 10, in an Alford plea entered before Judge John P. Miller in Baltimore City Circuit Court. With an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit to a crime and asserts innocence, but admits… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation, News - Local, News - Home page 2008-03-10T17:03:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/analysis_anti_child_molestation_meeting_fails/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/analysis_anti_child_molestation_meeting_fails/#When:20:00:00Z It was an evening of so much potential. Over 500 people showed up on a freezing February Wednesday night. A keynote expert in the field of child molestation prevention and counseling was featured. Every seat was taken. But there were no seats for forward thinking, action, real protection methods. The… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2008-02-28T20:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/bill_will_extend_child_sex_abuse_civil_suits/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/bill_will_extend_child_sex_abuse_civil_suits/#When:13:34:00Z A bill to extend the statute of limitations in civil suits related to child sexual abuse is being considered in the Maryland General Assembly. The bill was introduced by Del. Eric Bromwell (D-8h), of Baltimore County. It is based on a similar bill that was unsuccessfully introduced last year by Sen. James Brochin (D-42nd), also of Baltimore County.… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2008-02-18T13:34:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/yisroel_shapiro_pleads_not_guilty/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/yisroel_shapiro_pleads_not_guilty/#When:16:48:00Z “Not guilty.” This was the plea entered into court record by Israel Shapiro before Judge John Miller Tuesday morning in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Mr. Shapiro made his plea in response to charges of three counts of child sexual abuse, three counts of third degree sexual offense, three counts of fourth degree sex offenses… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation, News - Local, News - Home page 2008-01-15T16:48:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/rabbis_wrestle_with_sexual_abuse/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/rabbis_wrestle_with_sexual_abuse/#When:20:00:00Z Responding to general concern about reported incidents of alleged sexual abuse amongst the clergy –– in the Baltimore Jewish Times and other publications in recent years –– the Shofar Coalition last week convened area rabbis to guide them in better working with sexual abuse survivors. “We want people to feel safe,” said Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton of… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation, News - Local 2007-12-27T20:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/yisroel_shapiro_arrested/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/yisroel_shapiro_arrested/#When:17:00:00Z Yisroel Shapiro has been arrested and charged with two counts of sexual offense in the third degree, sexual offense in the fourth degree and battery. An arrest warrant was carried out by Baltimore City Police Department detectives at the request of the City State’s Attorney’s office. “Mr. Shapiro has been arrested and charged,” said… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation, News - Local, News - Home page 2007-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/women_molestation_survivors_on_their_recovery/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/women_molestation_survivors_on_their_recovery/#When:21:44:00Z Sometimes, people have strength and power unrealized. Five women and three clinicians sat together in a Pikesville office. It wasn’t the walls, floor and ceiling, however, that gave the meeting room structure. It’s as if their will, their experience, their love and trust gave each individual woman the strength of rock, the ability to protect, the structure to… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-11-09T21:44:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/ner_israel_rabbi_alleged_abuser/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/ner_israel_rabbi_alleged_abuser/#When:21:10:00Z The whispering got louder in the summer of 2006. Rabbi Moshe Eisemann, 71, a beloved longtime Ner Israel Rabbinical College scholar, teacher and author, was associated with the words “alleged molester.” A Baltimore-area pulpit rabbi and Ner Israel colleague left Rabbi Eisemann off the invitation list to his daughter’s wedding, because of the uncertainty of it… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-08-31T21:10:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/alleged_molester_investigated_here/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/alleged_molester_investigated_here/#When:21:39:00Z Two alleged victims of sexual molestation by Yisroel Shapiro of Olympia Avenue in Baltimore City filed a complaint June 8 with the Baltimore City Police Department’s Sex Offense Unit. The complaint triggered an investigation by the State’s Attorney’s Office. The Baltimore Jewish Times did not gain final confirmation of the timeline of the investigation until this… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-07-13T21:39:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/treating_the_molested/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/treating_the_molested/#When:21:36:00Z Dr. Mesa Leventhal Baker lives a frum life, deeply committed to her faith, her family and her synagogue. When one is next to this Upper Park Heights resident, she exudes positive energy. You find yourself with a quicker step and at times a long-lost smile on your face. Dr. Baker stays “up.” … News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-06-14T21:36:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/abuse_in_our_community/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/abuse_in_our_community/#When:21:34:00Z The following letter was mailed to the members of Baltimore’s Orthodox Community on April 11 from the Vaad Harabbonim, the Rabbinical Council of Greater Baltimore. There is no subject more painful for us to discuss than the issue of sexual abuse within our community. Yet at this point we believe it is the subject most necessary… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-05-21T21:34:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/area_rabbis_condemn_sexual_molestation/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/area_rabbis_condemn_sexual_molestation/#When:21:24:00Z Baltimore’s rabbis have spoken out. Both of the major rabbinic organizations have delivered strong messages in recent weeks on the issue of sexual abuse within the community. Indeed, the Vaad Harabbonim, the Rabbinical Council of Greater Baltimore, sent a letter signed by 23 of its rabbis to the Orthodox community, dated April 11. The… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-05-18T21:24:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/when_holiness_fails/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/when_holiness_fails/#When:21:31:00Z The following sermon was delivered by Rabbi Elan Adler on April 28, 2007 at Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah Hebrew Congregation in Pikesville. A terrible thing has happened in our Jewish community, something that has caught us off guard and sent us reeling. We found out, through publicity in the BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES, that even the holiest… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-05-04T21:31:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/another_survivors_tale/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/another_survivors_tale/#When:21:29:00Z The JEWISH TIMES received a call on Wednesday, April 25, from a second woman who claimed she was molested by the late Ephraim Shapiro. She was 11 and ½ and taking private bat mitzvah lessons with the Rabbi Shapiro at Agudas Achim. “He would cop a feel,” the 68-year-old woman, who asked for anonymity,… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-04-25T21:29:00-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/it_wasnt_just_boys/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/it_wasnt_just_boys/#When:21:27:01Z Ellen Jane Dopkin was the only girl in her Agudas Achim Synagogue class. She was post-bat mitzvah age, but her Hebrew school classroom achievements gave her the rare opportunity as a girl to be part of a special class studying the works of the Jewish sage Rashi. She was the only girl in a… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-04-20T21:27:01-05:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/baltimore_confronts_sexual_abuse_in_rabbinate/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/sexual_molestation/baltimore_confronts_sexual_abuse_in_rabbinate/#When:21:02:00Z Photographer Murray Levin has looked through his camera lenses countless times, capturing Jewish weddings, bar mitzvahs and other joyous events. The one “picture,” however, he can’t stop focusing on isn’t in his camera but in his 64-year-old memory. It’s an image of a bar mitzvah lesson at the old Agudas Achim Synagogue. It’s the shame that… News - Special Reports, Sexual Molestation 2007-04-13T21:02:00-05:00