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I wish you would’ve known. I wish you would’ve seen. I wish you would’ve cared. I wish you would’ve known the years of pain…
Read moreC-PTSD: I can’t stand you! Get far away from my life and just leave me alone! Stop it with your reminders, I don’t appreciate reliving my…
Read moreBy Yisroael Ben Simcha Understanding all the tapestry. Woven cloths that make me sing. I love the tapestry of trees. Woven, yet people see what I cannot…
Read more“Tell me why you feel ashamed”, you asked. “Please help me understand. You were just an innocent child, And you suffered at his hand.”…
Read moreBy a survivor It’s been a long and difficult day for me. I came home and sat on my couch holding my beautiful baby in my arms, watching him…
Read moreSailing down the river in my beautiful custom boat, filled with every luxurious upgrade that one can dream of. As I’m smoothly traveling along the…
Read moreDear Rabbi, I write to you with a mixture of extreme pain, anguish and anger. Where were you? What were you thinking? Where was your intuition?…
Read moreBy a survivor Recovery from abuse is a long and bumpy process. I have gone through so much and now I am finally starting to feel like a person again.…
Read moreI am sitting here a shell of a person, bleeding from wounds that I thought were long healed. For so long I thought that I was moving forward but in a…
Read moreThere was once a family, not long ago, that had the most wonderful parents and seven beautiful children. Life for both the children and the parents was…
Read moreDear readers, Please sit back and close your eyes while I walk you through my life. The “life of a sexual abuse victim”. I say “life”…
Read moreDear friends, I was in a terrible car accident yesterday. I was not at fault and didn’t see the car coming. It happened so quickly. My car…
Read moreThree decades ago. I’m not even eight years old. I’m in the hospital recovering from an illness. A nurse comes in and takes it upon herself…
Read moreTwo years ago, 53-year old Avraham Eisenbach, the gabbai of a Jerusalem synagogue, sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in a trailer behind his synagogue.…
Read moreI just came home from the final court case of a victim of sexual abuse. The beautiful and brave victim got up to speak as well as some other family members.…
Read moreIn September 2017, Williamsburg resident Joseph Grunwald was arrested for molesting a 7-year-old girl in a synagogue on Yom Kippur, and charged with 3…
Read more“My body was painfully used For someone so vicious and bad Until it was scratched and bruised Changing the life I once had This body is no longer…
Read moreTo my abuser, When will I move on, when will I heal? When will your abuse stop feeling so real? When will it change? When will it stop? Will I ever climb…
Read moreThe following article was submitted to JCW by a survivor of incest. JCW has been working to assist the survivor and her family. She asked that it be published…
Read moreThe day following his Bar Mitzvah, a 13-year-old boy was married to a 12-year-old girl in the ‘Shaalim community’ (also known as the “Taliban…
Read moreNew York passed a landmark law which extends the statute of limitations for child sex abuse, for both criminal and civil lawsuits. Attorneys Irwin Zalkin…
Read morePolice arrested a 40-year-old resident in Nahariya on suspicion of attempting to sexually assault a 14-year-old girl. The suspect entered the minor’s…
Read moreThe allegation that Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman used his position to help obtain a false psychiatric report in order to help Malka Leifer avoid…
Read moreA 40-year-old haredi Gush Etzion resident was arrested following a report that his son exhibited signs of years of physical abuse. During the interrogation,…
Read moreOn April 4th, Yitzi/Yitzchak Rosman (aka Eugene) was arrested and subsequently indicted on multiple charges of child sexual abuse of a minor. SVU detectives…
Read moreRecently, the Rabbinical Alliance of America hosted its Rosh Chodesh Shevat Conference at the home of Yitzchak (Yitzy) Hecht in Brooklyn, NY. JCW exposed…
Read moreIn June 2016, JCW shared information about the release of Daniel Sunray from an Israeli prison, where he had completed a six-year sentence for…
Read moreבשנת 2013 אליהו שפראן הואשם בבית משפט מחוזי בירושלים במספר אישומים של תקיפה מינית בקטינים, לאחר שהואשם בפגיעה במספר ילדות קטינות. שפראןהיה סופר…
Read moreאל אלא אני בוכיה Every tisha bav I sit on the floor. I cry for עם ישראל and I cry for my own personal galus. Thrown out because I was sexually abused…
Read moreI mourn the loss of control on my body I mourn the loss of my childhood I mourn the loss of my teen years I mourn the loss of joy I mourn the loss of…
Read moreI just saw you! You. You, who robbed my life. You, who stole my peace of mind. You, who hurt me and burned me. You, who extinguished the…
Read moreIn 2015, the FBI arrested and charged New Jersey- based therapist Elliot Halberstam with three counts of sexual enticement and exploitation…
Read moreI’m Sitting at the shore of the Atlantic Ocean after an extremely painful therapy session. I once again went deeply into the most traumatic part…
Read morePosition Title: Victim Advocate Department/Division: Investigative…
Read moreThere is nothing more painful in this world then having to deal with it. The pain I feel cannot be described in words. It’s been 11 years since…
Read moreA 67-year-old Charedi grandfather is suspected of sexually abusing three of his granddaughters. The unnamed Jerusalem resident was arrested yesterday…
Read moreConfronting my abuser was a powerful and therapeutic experience. Even though I felt nervous, scared and petrified in the beginning, it was worth every…
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