SFJ SFJ is a child safety advocacy, educational and support organization for survivors of s*xual abuse and their families from the Strictly Orthodox world.

04/23/2023

In "Daughter of the Wicked," writer/performer Shanit Keter-Schwartz explores a dark chapter in Israeli history — and in her own family.

07/19/2020

S*xual Abuse Victim Haim Zuckerman discusses on Talkline With Zev Brenner his filing a law suite against Avrohom Mondrowitz who molested him 37 years ago at a Chassidic Yeshiva. He is joined by his attorney Niall MacGiollabhuí who has successfully sued the Catholic Church on behalf of s*x abuse vic...

..."...Mondrowitz...ran a child-counseling program out of his Brooklyn home and worked in a special-education school for...
07/13/2020

..."...Mondrowitz...ran a child-counseling program out of his Brooklyn home and worked in a special-education school for boys that had connections to Ohel Children and Family Services. The Jewish Week reported in 2010 that one of Mondrowitz’s alleged Jewish victims was referred to him for counseling directly by Ohel. (A 2009 press release issued by Ohel said that it had never employed Mondrowitz but was silent on the issue of whether it made referrals to him). "...

After nearly 40 years, accuser wants the ‘truth’ to come out about counselor who fled molestation charges.

01/15/2020

A Manhattan Democrat wants to give child s*x abuse victims another year to file previously time-barred claims in court.

12/30/2019

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12/26/2019

New York City stalled the release of a report critical of the schools as the mayor sought the political support of Orthodox Jewish leaders, city investigators found.

12/22/2019

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12/17/2019

“Updated lawsuit totals this morning: Statewide: 1,272 (+61 from last week, the biggest jump I've seen in about a month) Erie County: 293 New York County: 279 Kings County: 176 Monroe County: 85 Nassau County: 66 Queens County: 60 Albany County: 59”

11/14/2019

A lawsuit will be filed next month, but Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian — who was prominently featured in the film “Spotlight” about s*xual abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston — said the church was notified in a letter this week about the impending charges,

"The attorney informed Catholic officials in New Jersey that he is preparing a lawsuit on behalf of a client who says he...
11/14/2019

"The attorney informed Catholic officials in New Jersey that he is preparing a lawsuit on behalf of a client who says he was molested by Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio in the mid-1970s, when DiMarzio was a parish priest in Jersey City."

NEW YORK (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop named by Pope Francis to investigate the church’s response to clergy s*xual abuse in Buffalo, New York, has himself been accused of s*xual abuse of a child,...

11/10/2019

A Brooklyn man claims he was repeatedly r***d as a child by two Hasidic rabbis, and beaten when he tried to report his Hebrew school “hell.” “We do not discuss such things,” Yonah Kohn …

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