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Tempest in the temple : Jewish communities & child sex scandals
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Tempest in the temple : Jewish communities & child sex scandals

Author: Amy Neustein
Publisher: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover [N.H.] : Published by University Press of New England, ©2009.
Series: Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Amy Neustein
ISBN: 9781584656715 1584656719
OCLC Number: 236347753
Description: xxiii, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Unholy waters: how a Massachusetts synagogue found its way to shore after a sex abuse scandal, a prosecution, and a lawsuit, as narrated by the synagogue's rabbi and its legal counsel / Loel Weiss & Mark Itzkowitz --
Crossing the line: what makes a rabbi violate sexual boundaries, and what can be done about it? / Michelle Friedman --
Straying the course: can Jewish and secular leadership archetypes rein in religious leaders? / Erica Brown --
Out of the Jewish closet: facing the hidden secrets of child sex abuse, and the damage done to victims / Joyanna Silberg & Stephanie Dallam --
A community of co-enablers: why are Jews ignoring traditional Jewish law by protecting the abuser? / Mark Dratch --
The fugitive and the forgotten: cracking the cold case of Rabbi Avrohom Mondrowitz / Michael Lesher --
My cross to bear: how I challenged the Catholic Church hierarchy to atone for their sins against me and other abuse victims / Barbara Blaine --
Justice interrupted: how rabbis can interfere with the prosecution of sex offenders, and strategies for how to stop them / Amy Neustein & Michael Lesher --
Pedophiles and penitence: whom to banish, whom to support, helping Jewish communities make the right choices / Robert Weiss.
Series Title: Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life.
Responsibility: edited by Amy Neustein ; foreword by Elliot Dorff ; preface by Jeremy Rosen ; epilogue by Dane S. Claussen.

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