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{weblog_name} - The Right Thing
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Every once in a while, it’s nice to get a nod to know you’re doing the right thing. I mean, our mission is to strengthen the community that we serve. But it’s a difficult thing to measure. Today, we got a little validation. Right there on the front page of one of the leading dailies in the world—the New York Times—- was a story about how the fervently Orthodox are finally starting to change. They are now for the first time starting to report sexual abuse to the legal authorities, and not just to their rabbis. The Times credits the work of rabbis, social workers, and the Jewish press. They mentioned the New York Jewish Week by name for its work in outing Baruch Lanner in 2000. Much credit also has to go to Baltimore Jewish Times Editor Phil… read more