Ruth Lichtenstein Publisher of Hamodia Will Not report Walder Story Despite Her Own Daughter Writing a book about Incest in the Ger Community

 

Ruth Lichtenstein's daughter, Judy Brown, wrote a book titled  Hush, a best seller  which described a scene where the protagonist witnesses a friend getting raped by her own family in the Ger community. At the time she wrote it under a pen name, "Aishas Chayil" but she was subsequently outed. She then went public to lecture the community about sexual abuse in the Chassidic community.

Her mother, Ruth, is the publisher of Hamodia, and wants to continue her family minhag of keeping her mouth shut about a serial rapist and adulterer, a menace to the frum community. Shame on her, she has learnt nothing.

Talk about tone deaf... have you seen the editorial in Hamodia? Take a look. What a total letdown. @HamodiaUS - you guys need to go back to the drawing board. This kind of drivel simply isn't credible. In fact, it's downright offensive. #chaimwalder pic.twitter.com/YxbaKLMNIH

— Pini Dunner (@pinidunner) January 6, 2022

Funny how Ruth Lichtenstein of @HamodiaUS claims that her paper is following the footsteps of Reb Chaim Ozer and the Imrei Emes זצ"ל – both of whom had images of women published in their publications, as documented in @DerVeker. https://t.co/fhWOeHxZTM

— Shlomo Felberbaum (@ShlomoFelber) January 6, 2022

Editor of hamodia writes in this week's issue that her publication will not be writing about the sex abuse scandal. Seems like a good time for a reminder that her own daughter wrote Hush, a story about sex abuse cover-ups in her community.https://t.co/iTxxeZpCWZ https://t.co/lsT5d5pXH0

— Miriam Moster (@MiriamMoster) January 5, 2022

California prosecutor opposed to vaccine mandates dies of COVID at 44

 

California prosecutor opposed to vaccine mandates dies of COVID at 44 https://t.co/EFYGH8tBwZ pic.twitter.com/UJkg70fAgQ

— New York Post (@nypost) January 5, 2022

Beit Shemesh resident Orly Vital an Agunah for 14 years gets her get

 

From left to right: Yad La'Isha Rabbinical Court Advocate and Attorney Tehilla Cohen, Orly Vital, and Pnina Omer, Director of Yad La’Isha

One of the most emotionally challenging and dramatic cases handled by the Rabbinical Courts in recent memory came to an end when Orly Vital was granted freedom from her husband on Tuesday.

Vital, a Beit Shemesh resident and mother of four, received her get (Jewish divorce document) after nearly 14 years of continuous halachic (Jewish legal) struggle. When Vital initially asked her ex-husband R. for a divorce, he told her that he would only give her this essential document if she fulfilled a series of financial demands.

Rebbetzen Tziporah Heller: "We Can't Judge Rapists. Only Journalists."

 

From the RationalistJudiasm blog:

I was hoping to move on from the Walder mess, but something came to my attention which has to be addressed. It's something that Rav Berkovits mentioned, and which has been vaguely messaged from many parts of charedi society. 

But now I saw it spelled out, nauseatingly, in an essay by the generally wise and respected Rebbetzen Tziporah Heller-Gottlieb. Seriously, I feel that I have to give a warning before linking to her essay, as it is immensely triggering.

Watch How the Media drooled over Elizabeth Holmes "The Fraudster"

 

Corporate Media Gushed over Theranos Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes pic.twitter.com/86Q0YLyf2n

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 4, 2022

If you are a Victim of Abuse do not go to any Rav they won't help you ..Here is a history of those who did go

This is also in  response to this week's article in Mishpacha magazine featuring Rabbi Lopiansky

Internal reporting doesn't work, and if you need any evidence of that I'll send you the list of CVA cases against Agudah, Camp Agudah, Torah Temimah, Ger Yeshiva, Bobov, Satmar, Mogen Av, Ohel, Ohel, Ohel, Chai Lifeline, Hamaspik, Kranczer, etc. All it does is lead to coverup.

— Asher Lovy (@HareianiBlog) January 5, 2022

For those not on twitter:

 In 2013 Yossi Kolko, nephew of prolific child rapist Yiddy Kolko, started raping a child in lakewood. He raped him in camp then came back to Lakewood and raped him for a few more months. The kid finally disclosed to his father who being a good Lakewood man went to beis din.

The beis din found Yossi guilty paskened that he couldn't be a rebbi anymore and had to go to 12 weeks of therapy. He stopped going after 6. The father went back to the beis din to get them to enforce their psak and they told him they had no power to do that.

Having tried the internal system he sent a letter to Rav Shternbuch asking for permission to go to the police. Rav Shternbuch said yes. Yossi was eventually arrested. Meantime, noted gadol Yisroel Belsky wrote a letter calling the accusation a lie.

Yisroel Belsky had written a similar letter decades prior for Yossie's uncle Yiddy after he was accused of raping boys at Torah Temimah (also being sued under the CVA). The father was fired from his job as a rosh bechina at BMG and the son was expelled from yeshiva.

Eventually Yossi pleaded guilty and at his allocution he said that he had done it because he had been molested by his uncle Yiddy Kolko (whom Belsky had written a letter for saying the allegations were false).

A few rabbis in Lakewood wrote an apology to the father for believing Belsky's letter, but it was too late. He couldn't get his job back and his son couldn't get back into yeshiva. That's what internal reporting does, and that's why it's wrong.

Even when the father did what the community wanted him to do he and his son were thrown out and branded as moisrim. The Father a chushiver Rav sold his shul and home and left to another state. This is why Lopiansky's stupid idea for a panel in @themishpacha is so harmful. All it leads to is coverup and harm to victims.

If Lopiansky really cares about victims as he claims to he should work to rectify the reasons why victims are so scared to report in the community instead of throwing his hands up in the air and then suggesting harmful, illegal, stupidity.

Remember the Brown's Hotel up in the mountains?

 

Israel faces grave outlook for burial space

 Since the Jewish state’s creation 61 years ago, cemeteries across the small country have been filling up with graves. Cremation could be an option, but ritual Jewish law bans the practice. So plots are at a premium and space is tight.

At the entrance to Jerusalem, one of the city’s largest cemeteries now juts out and touches the highway as an eerie reminder to all passing by just how little land is available.

Anti-Zionist Chareidie speaks fluent Arabic to Al Jazira to rant about the Medina

 

ווער פארשטייט pic.twitter.com/huV4zXjMBI

— Hasidic_3 (@Hasidic_3) January 4, 2022

The Yeshivaworld News Blog Will not talk about Monster Walder but did allow a "letter to editor" but then allows comments that basically say that Walder is innocent

 

To my DIN readers: If you made a comment on any of my posts about Monster Walder and you don't see your comment, know that I do not post any comments that support the Monster. If you want to to voice your sick ideas about this vile sick animal, you can go to his grave in Petach Tikva and daven there. I am sure that this will soon be a shrine for all those supporting sexual perverts.

The letter:

After hearing about the tragic events last week, I read an article about how to talk to children about what had happened. One of the things it explained was how suicide is a final solution to a temporary problem. After reading the article I thought about how lucky I was that I didn’t need to speak to my kids about this. It also spoke about protecting the innocence of children. In my naivety, I thought they were too young, only 9 and 11. I would be saved from the hassle of needing to have a talk with them. Boy was I wrong. When they came home from school, they brought it up. However, the narrative was one that I did not want them to hear. It was full of falsehood and lies.