Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities (Paperback)

from fredgold

This is an interesting and informative book about a troubling subject only now coming to light since the publicity surrounding the problems in the Catholic church have come to light. I dare say that this is also a problem in some (not all!) orthodox Jewish communities is a revelation to a lot of ...

from SRB5729

This book is painful to read. Not due to the writing which I found informative and not pedantic at all. The subject matter as presented is sickening. Mr. Lesher shows us so many of the failings possible within a closed community. Regardless of one's views on organized religion or orthodoxy, we ar...

from jwpell

I truly wish I could say I enjoyed this book. But I didn't. No one can, because of the sheer awfulness of the topic (sexual abuse of children) and the thoroughness with which Lesher documents the lengths to which Orthodox Jewish institutions and leaders go to hide it, prevent its reportage to civ...

from SpaceStationMir

Michael Lesher presents a clear-headed and well-documented account of the forces that allow sex abuse perpetrators to go unpunished, and sex abuse victims to go unprotected, in Orthodox Jewish communities. His focus on the collaboration between rabbinic elites and Shomrim, or Jewish police forces...

from kristincedar

I do love that this book opens up a dialog into what is ignored and shunned away discussion. However, there is a lot of material to digest, and the chapters do flow from one to another, without pause to give the reader time to process what is being read. This is a good comment on the social "norm...