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HOTLINE 1 800 621 8551voiceofjustice613http://www.blogger.com/profile/08348460768429187325noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657225810274278373.post-15937640021169763162016-05-21T18:23:00.002-07:002016-05-22T17:49:23.603-07:00On the Front battle to combat Child Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community OP-ED BY MARK MEYER APPEL <br />
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<strong>An interview with </strong><b>Mark Meyer Appel,</b><strong> the founder of The Voice of Justice</strong></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">There is no doubt to anyone who has eyes to see and ears that hear that the myriad headlines that dominate the media reveal egregious corruption amongst trusted officials and the kind of moral turpitude that causes a collective cringe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">For decades, the seemingly at peace Orthodox Jewish world has had its share of shocking publicity when facts emerged about horrific child sexual abuse; perpetrated not by circumspect types in the outside world but by respected adult members of the community.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Raising one’s voice in outrage and indignation and thusly confronting the dense wall of silence that has been erected by the Orthodox Community in shielding perpetrators has been a most daunting venture. Given the community’s resistance to speaking openly about this terrifying phenomenon, those who would entertain the notion of crossing this invisible line are readily shunned; threatened and even ostracized.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Enter Mark Meyer Appel, founder of the Voice of Justice. Mr. Appel’s name has come to personify those victims of abuse whose voices have been drowned out in this continuing and painful conversation. Mr. Appel , however, cannot claim neophyte status in terms of acquiring knowledge on child sexual abuse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Having started the organization “Voice of Justice” many years ago, New York City resident Mr. Appel has been an advocate for youth and children’s services and served on the mayor’s task force on mental health. Under the administrations of both Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg, Mr. Appel also served on the board of directors of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation as a mayoral appointee</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Moreover, Mr. Appel’s dedication also stretched to those children with special needs who had been previously ignored or neglected by the system that was created to serve them. In 1990, Mr. Appel worked with both city and state agencies to establish an early intervention program for special needs kids, kids at risk and learning disabled kids.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Mr. Appel also played a major role in finding jobs for marginalized kids, providing them with an appropriate education and offering them a substantial amount of financial support.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">“When I worked with youth at risk during programs at my home, I discovered that many of them had been horribly abused, “ Mr. Appel ruefully recalled.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>“The abuse had a major impact on their lives. It really hurt these kids and the family structure. When kids are abused they have tremendous difficulty trusting anyone anymore. Tragically, the leadership of the Orthodox world has not been in the forefront of helping them and that sense of abandonment triggers anger within these victims,” explained Mr. Appel</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Having witnessed the emotional scars and trauma of child sexual abuse among those he worked with, Mr. Appel was driven from a source within himself to help expose this otherwise surreptitious phenomenon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">“Over the years, we became involved in major cases of those charged with child molestation. We spent many years attending court proceedings and trials to show our constant support. We want these victims and survivors to know that we have their backs,” said Mr. Appel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">For the last eight years, Mr. Appel has devoted the lion’s share of his time to conducting well organized lobbying efforts in Albany to call for a major reform in the statute of limitations. The proposed modification in the law would grant victims of child sexual abuse a sufficient amount of time to file criminal charges against the person or persons who perpetrated the heinous acts against them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">“It is our moral responsibility as Orthodox Jews, as upright citizens of this country, to make it our business to eliminate these predators, “ intoned Mr. Appel. “Because child sexual abuse gets swept under the proverbial rug in Orthodox circles , it very often comes out many years later. I worked with victims who were abused over 20 years ago, and who never pursued their cases out of fear and always remained mum about it. One day, without warning, a trigger will go off in their brain and all the nightmarish memories will surface and they will be reliving the abuse. Now, however, as adults they do want to redress their grievances in a court of law and that right should be afforded to them,” he said with palpable emotion reverberating in this voice. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: blue;">Known as the Child Victims Act (Bill # A2872A – in the assembly) and initiated by Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, (D-Queens), the legislation, if passed, would eliminate these time constraints in criminal and civil cases of child sexual abuse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">At the beginning of May, Mr. Appel was joined by more than 130 Jewish leaders who have also signed the petition backing the bill. Among those rabbis and advocates are Jewish Community Watch, Kol v”oz, The Voice of Justice, Mageinu, United Support Network, Jewish Board of Advocates, and The Bridge Project.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">New York’s archaic statute of limitations sharply limits the time victims have to bring charges against a molester. A victim must come forward within five years after the age of 18 to bring criminal or civil charges against their abuser or any agency or organization that should have reported the crime.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">As was reported in the Daily News, New York City lags behind states like Georgia, Massachusetts, Florida and Utah, all of which in the past several years have passed bills that lengthened the time victims have to bring their cases to court.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Some victims are unable to come to grips with the abuse they endured until middle age or even later in life but certainly not before the age of 23. Furthermore, in religious communities, by limiting the right to sue and prosecute to the age of 23 has created a situation where victims of abuse may have lost a chance for closure to come forward with charges regarding the abuse suffered.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>“Our biggest impediments in having this bill pass are the extensive influence of the Catholic church, the opposition of the Agudas Yisroel of America and the abject silence of Governor Cuomo, Senate GOP leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, “ explained Mr. Appel.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>“What I can say is that the statement released to the media by Rabbi Avi Shafran of the Agudah (an organization that represents haredei Orthodox yeshivas and shuls), along with the backing of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and other yeshivas such as Chaim Berlin and Torah V’Daas only serves to further infuriate the victims of child sexual abuse because what they are essentially saying is that they don’t want to be held accountable for the abuse that took place on their premises. They don’t want to confess as to whether they knew or did not know that such abuse was happening, “ said Mr. Appel.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>For its part, the Agudah has said the bill would open up institutions to “ancient claims and capricious litigation,” as they had written in a 2009 statement it had issued in conjunction with the haredi schools network Torah Umesorah.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Speaking to the JTA, Agudah director of public affairs and regular newspaper columnist Rabbi Avi Shafran declared, “We do not oppose extending or even eliminating the criminal statute of limitations for cases of abuse. Our concern is simply protecting the economic viability of Jewish schools. Yeshivas operate on shoestring budgets.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Because of his stalwart efforts to challenge the status quo, Mr. Appel has been branded anti-haredi by his detractors, but he says, “I am not at war with Agudath Israel. They have many wonderful programs including Daf Yomi and I very much respect Rabbi Dovid Zweibel. He is an exceptionally decent person. But having said this, I must also say that the Agudah and Torah Mesorah should have been in the forefront of this campaign to have this legislation passed.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Recalling that he attended an event about three years ago that was operated by “Sacred Lives” ( a group dedicated to helping abuse victims), Mr. Appel said that many Jewish summer camp directors were present including Rabbi Ronnie Greenwald, zt’l of Camp Sternberg for girls in upstate New York and Rabbi Zweibel of the Agudah. He had also donated tens of thousands of dollars to ensure it success as he has done throughout his career working with abused children. “These rabbonim have to agree unanimously that abuse will no longer be tolerated. The good news is that there are many who are very supportive of abuse victims,” said Mr. Appel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He adds that such culpability on the part of the Agudah and the yeshivas where the abuse took place would have done much in the way of promoting emotional and mental healing of the victims. “It would have graphically illustrated the fact that the yeshiva took responsibility for the reprehensible acts that took place under their bailiwick,” said Mr. Appel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He added that because victims have been filing abuse charges in other states, it is beyond shocking that not one yeshiva in California has been shut down. “The Catholic Archdiocese was sued and there was $1 billion in claims,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Mr. Appel says that the likelihood of yeshivos falling into an insolvent state of affairs if lawsuits from victims were brought against them were slim to none because “yeshivas have good insurance policies that prevent lawsuits and judges are obligated to sign off on a lawsuit in order to proceed.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">He said that the only way that a case against a yeshiva can have legal legs to stand on is if it can be proven in a court of law that teachers and administrators were involved in covering up the abuse. He added that there is a possibility that this precise point that has placed the Agudah and its attendant yeshivas in a defensive posture, but many variables remain to be seen.</span></div>
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New York - Last Sunday night in Englewood, I attended the funeral of a good and charitable man. The father of a large family, he truly was one of those rare few about whom people have only positive things to say. The question that was on my mind throughout the eulogies was the one question that was not addressed: How could such a good, religious man die so young?</div>
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I believe that as Jews we are obligated to challenge God in the face of seeming divine miscarriages of justice. Let Muslims bow in submission. Let Christians take their leap of faith. We Jews are a feisty bunch, charged by God to be Israelites — “he who wrestles with God and is ultimately victorious.” Victory will not come until God stops allowing righteous individuals to suffer and die. That’s why the Lubavitcher Rebbe was adamant about demanding of God a messianic world where no woman is ever widowed and no child is ever orphaned</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 18.72px;">Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, a Jewish outreach</span><span style="font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 18.72px;"> </span>.<span style="font-size: 14.4px; line-height: 18.72px;">“expert,” said at an Englewood bar mitzvah that I attended that Jewish women who were being lined up to be gassed did not care about their modesty as the Nazis stripped them of their clothing. I had never heard anything so disgusting in my life. He said it as a way of explaining that the martyrs of the Holocaust were not so righteous as we otherwise might suppose. A modern Orthodox crowd sat there listening and barely flinched. We all should have been ashamed of ourselves.</span></div>
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Now Mizrachi is in the news yet again for outdoing even these loathsome ideas, this time actually denying that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.</div>
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In 1984, Mahmoud Abbas wrote a study based on his doctoral dissertation where he attempted to prove that the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust “might be much smaller — even less than one million.” Abbas, who has the blood of countless Jews on his hands, is not alone in these vile claims. But I was pretty shocked to read that Mizrachi joined him by posting a YouTube video recently that said, “In every place, we have become used to hearing that six million Jews were murdered… But the truth, I am telling you, is that not even one million Jews were murdered.</div>
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“Not that this is an insignificant number, chalilah. It is a tremendous number. But there is a difference between six million and one million.”</div>
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Scholars immediately spoke out to refute this ignorant hate speech, and Mizrachi was forced to apologize last week. But what was going through his mind when he thought it okay to dishonor the memory of the six million innocent human beings murdered by the Germans? Did he consider that Holocaust deniers will forever quote with glee that even an Orthodox rabbi believes that many fewer than six million Jews died?</div>
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<b>But Mizrachi’s despicable statements about Holocaust victims are par for the course. He describes the Holocaust as “five years of punishment to many wicked people [from God].” He also says that the reason why it happened to the Jews in Europe was because many of them became less religious and stopped keeping kosher and keeping the Sabbath over the years.</b></div>
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<b>Mizrachi’s reasoning, of course, is easily refuted garbage.</b></div>
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In 1933, there were approximately 522,000 Jews living under the Reich. Beginning in January of that year, the Jews experienced public beatings and humiliations. Businesses were boycotted and synagogues desecrated. In 1935, the Nuremberg race laws were enacted, followed by the 1938 horrors of Kristallnacht. During this entire time, the Jews of Germany tried to get out. They could see with their own eyes that if they didn’t leave, they would be doomed. At the start of the Second World War, 304,000 of them had emigrated. And though most nations of the world refused to accept them, a majority finally were able to escape.</div>
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The Jews who did not escape Hitler’s ovens were, among so many other millions, the chasidim and ultra-religious Jews of Poland. They had no idea about Hitler’s plan to invade via blitzkrieg on September 1, 1939.</div>
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Are we to believe that these devout and pious Jews, who observed the smallest details of Jewish law in keeping the Sabbath and keeping kosher and who prayed three times a day, were punished with death? And if so, then why did a majority of their German Jewish brothers and sisters, whom Mizrachi sees as far more “sinful,” survive?</div>
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Mizrachi also states with confidence that the reason Sephardic Jewry was spared the Holocaust is due to their continued observance of Jewish ritual, just as the Ashkenazi Jews historically had been accustomed to do until the years leading up to the Second World War.</div>
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Rabbi Mizrachi, what about the 1190 Massacre of the Jews in York, the Rindfleisch massacres of 1298, the Chimielnicki massacres of 1648-1657, and the countless other pogroms and murders of Jews across Europe and Russia? And let’s also remember the more than 40 major massacres against the “religiously protected” Sephardic Jews living in Muslim lands over the last 1,300 years.</div>
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Mizrachi has said in the past that children with “Down Syndrome, autistic, and any other problem is a punishment as a result of a previous life…That’s pure punishment, those kind of people don’t have a test anymore, it’s punishment 100%.”</div>
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Mizrachi also claims to know why children are born blind. “A person is born blind, poor kid, was born blind, why? God? What do you know? Did you know how many dirty movies he was watching in his previous life? Now he’s blind.”</div>
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He claims to know why people get cancer and why accidents happen. “Mixed parties bring tragedies to our children. There’s more accidents, there’s more cancer, every minute there’s a new Jew who gets cancer in the world, every minute, and that’s because of the way the women dress, and that’s because of the sins that guys and girls make together. That’s because of all the dirty phone calls, that’s because of the Facebook connections, and all the drugs and the alcohol and all the problems around, that brings all these tragedies to us.”</div>
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Call me a cynic, but I’m always just a little suspicious of religious leaders who obsess over other people’s sexual sins.</div>
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Mizrachi also has divined that intermingling of the sexes at weddings is the culprit for the rise in the divorce rate. “All the blessing is gone. Don’t be surprised why 70% of these mixed weddings ended up with divorce within four years. Why, because there’s a curse there.”</div>
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Mizrachi and rabbis like him are a menace. Just think about how many people who might otherwise embrace Jewish tradition are absolutely revolted by this cruel twaddle that is fraudulently passed as authentic Judaism.</div>
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I ask Rabbi Mizrachi to take heed of the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who said of the Holocaust, “To say that those very people were deserving of what transpired, that it was a punishment for their sins, heaven forbid, is unthinkable. There is absolutely no explanation or understanding for the Holocaust.”</div>
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As for those rabbis who say that the Holocaust was a punishment, the Rebbe said accurately, “No scales of judgment could ever condemn a people to such horrors.”</div>
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When viewing human suffering, we must look to Moses’ actions toward the enslaved Israelites in Egypt, as we read in last week’s Torah portion. Moses did not return to God with his head bowed low, accepting the brutality inflicted on his people as the Divine will. “Why have you acted so wickedly to this people?” he asks the Creator of the Universe. “From the time you have sent me you have done nothing to save this nation.”</div>
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Jews are now being murdered in Israel almost every day. Diaspora communities should be shaking the foundations of the heavens, demanding from God that they be protected, demanding of our State Department that it stop the balderdash of “both sides” needing to de-escalate, and demanding of rabbis that they lead the charge in defending Jewish life.<br />
<em style="font-weight: inherit;"><br />Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is an American Orthodox Rabbi, author, TV host and public speaker.</em></div>
voiceofjustice613http://www.blogger.com/profile/08348460768429187325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657225810274278373.post-82810629751884661272015-08-10T01:04:00.004-07:002015-08-10T01:04:54.887-07:00A OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER by Shmuel Soiferman YWN<div style="font-family: Verdana;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">This was the case Winston Churchill his destiny becomes crystal clear Hashem had placed him as the man to rally his nation to fight against Hitler. Hashem had ensconced him as leader of</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"> Great Britain in order to rally the free world against this raving madman.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Sir Winston Churchill had the choice as to whether to meekly oppose the forces of tyranny and evil or to rally against it with all that he had.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: white;">My dear Senator, you too have this choice.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">During these three weeks since this Iran deal has been announced you have carefully studied it and you have concluded that you will individually oppose it. You can do this, and thus passively allow the president to veto Congress’s rejection.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>Or you can choose to fulfill your obvious destiny, a destiny you say that your own mother had foretold.</strong><strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">At this past Agudah dinner held in May, that you had attended and addressed, you and the Novaminsker Rebbe shared the same message. In the two hundred dinners that I have attended, never in my life have I heard the same message from both a Gadol haDor and a politician.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: white;">Senator Schumer, you say your name is Schumer because you are the “Shomer Yisroel.”</strong></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #000033; font-family: Verdana;">- </span><strong style="color: #000033; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;">s </strong><strong style="color: #000033; font-family: Verdana;">Schumer because you are the “Shomer Yisroel.”</strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Your task, your life m</b>ission is clear. It is not the politics that politicians play, but it has got to be real and genuine.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: white;">You must rally and lead. You must call every single democratic senator to override the president’s future veto. You must work the phones, day and night. You must not rest until you have lobbied, convinced, and cajoled every democratic senator on your speed dial.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Blast them with emails. Text them. Call them. Use every means at your disposal for this is your true mission.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Don’t have the staff? We will help you. Every single one of your Jewish constituents and our readership will volunteer in this task.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Donald Trump is in the headlines every day saying some message. Where are you<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where is the Shomer Yisroel that you spoke about at the Agudah Dinner?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">If your name truly comes from “Shomer – Guardian” then I direct you to a prayer that we recite daily. The prayer has been modified, but if there is any sincerity in what </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> stand for, you must follow it.<br />Schumer, Schumer, Yisroel, Shmor sheris yisroel. V’al yovad, v’al yovad yisroel, haOmrim Shma Yisroel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Schumer, Schumer, guard the remnant of Israel. And let them not be destroyed, Let Israel not be destroyed – those who recite the Hear O’ Israel.<br />This deal, by the standards that you yourself have proclaimed at that May Agudah dinner, is a tragc failure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">You spoke about inspections, “any where and any time.. unannounced. You said it should be even at new and previously unknown places..</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Where is your voice? Your voice, once so eloquent and so pro</span><span style="color: #000033;">ud?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">During the past six years, we have strongly advocated for <b>“The Child Victims Act” (A2872),</b> which would increase the statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse. We stand shoulder to shoulder with <b>Assemblywoman Markey, </b>who is leading the fight in New York State to increase the statute of limitations. We also welcomed<b> State Senator Brad Hoylman, </b>who is the prime sponsor of THE <b>CHILD VICTIMS ACT</b> in the New York State Senate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We were joined by USA Speed skating champion Bridie Farrell, Kevin Thomas Mullhearn Esq, who has recently represented victims from Yeshiva University, Prevent Child Abuse New York, Catholics Coalition of Conscious Faithful NY, Dignity/NY, Horace Mann Action Coalition, and our own Mark Meyer Appel Founder of The Voice of Justice, as well as two brave survivors, Vanessa DeRosa, and Tino Flores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mark Meyer Appel founder of THE BRIDGE in his remarks at the press conference, equated the problem of child abuse with victims of terror all over the world. “New York State has the weakest laws in the United States in the area of Child Abuse.” “2015,” proclaimed Appel, “is our year and we must continue to fight for the passage of this historic bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Margaret Markey.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Microsoft Sans Serif', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte, escorted the Bridge volunteers into the New York State Assembly Chamber, where we were warmly received and acknowledged by the entire New York State Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">New York State currently ranks among the very worst of all states in America in how it deals with victims of child sexual abuse crimes, right at the bottom of all 50 states along with Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Indiana, according to a survey by the Cardozo Law School. Under current law victims in New York must come forward to bring criminal or civil charges within five years of their 18</span><sup style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 1.4;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;"> birthday or lose the opportunity to ever bring charges against their abuser. Many other states either have no or extended statute of limitations, including California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Delaware and Connecticut.</span><br />
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More than one person attending the recent open house at The Bridge, a new center in Midwood, Brooklyn, devoted to promoting diversity, marveled at what they saw that night.</div>
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Members of the borough’s Orthodox-Jewish, black and Muslim communities cross paths every day, but rarely do they come together to celebrate what they have in common, as about 300 did Oct. 19 for the opening of The Bridge.</div>
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The gathering included elected officials, political activists and religious leaders from all three communities, some of whom spoke at the event and two of whom were honored. And toward the end of the evening, a good number of guests danced the hora, as the Caribbean band hired for the event teamed with an Orthodox singer and played “Hava Nagila.”</div>
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The center, the full name of which is <a href="http://www.thebridgemcp.com/" target="_blank">The Bridge Multicultural and Advocacy Project</a>, is the vision of Mark Meyer Appel, a social activist who owns the building, along with neighboring properties on Flatbush Avenue. His idea for the center, he told the gathering, is to bring together diverse elements of the community through art shows, music and dance concerts, and advocacy efforts around issues affecting Brooklyn.</div>
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But Appel is doing so at what seems like an especially tense time, marked by a rash of violent incidents. The incidents have included so-called “knockout” attacks by gangs of black teens who, according to reports, have targeted Jews in Crown Heights, reminding some residents of the riots 23 years ago. The latest such attack took place Oct. 12, when teens rushed into a kosher deli, ransacked the store and shouted anti-Semitic slogans as one of them punched the owner in the jaw, newspaper accounts said.</div>
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Only days earlier, pro-Palestinian protesters allegedly attacked Leonard Petlakh, executive director of the Kings Bay Y, following an exhibition basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and Maccabi Tel Aviv at the Barclays Center. Police have arrested a suspect in that incident, but say they won’t charge him with a hate crime because they don’t believe bias was involved.</div>
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Some of the speakers at The Bridge, including Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, alluded to those incidents, promising that any hate crimes would be investigated and vigorously prosecuted. But the speeches also emphasized the positive, focusing on the value of efforts like The Bridge.</div>
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“There’s no greater cause than allowing people to gather together under one roof and share our similarities,” said Ezra Friedlander, a political consultant active in the chasidic community and Democratic politics. Friedlander was honored at the event, along with Ed Powell, a local political leader and an assistant imam at one of Brooklyn’s largest mosques.</div>
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Other speakers included New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, Assemblywoman Rhoda S. Jacobs, Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind and City Councilman Jumaane D. Williams, all Democrats. Religious leaders addressing the event include Rabbi Joseph Potasknik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, who said that, ultimately, the center is about “making a better life for all of us.”</div>
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In interviews before and after the speeches, various leaders of the Jewish community described their admiration for The Bridge’s founder, who is in the process of moving back to Brooklyn after several years in Florida. Rabbi Postasnik called Appel a “bridge builder,” one of the things that attracted him to the event, he said. Similarly, Bob Kaplan, director of intergroup relations and community concerns at the <a href="http://www.jcrcny.org/" target="_blank">Jewish Community Relations Council of New York</a>, said Appel “has always been there” whenever tensions in the city have escalated.</div>
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“He’s always been someone who believes that diversity is a value, not just something to be managed,” Kaplan added.</div>
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If the presence of Kathyann Clarke was any indication, The Bridge is already benefiting Midwood residents. Clarke, an accountant, said she learned of the event only a day earlier, when she rented out space at the two-story center for her daughter’s fifth birthday party. She had never heard of The Bridge before, but she spoke briefly with Appel and believes that “what he’s trying to do is important.”</div>
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Appel, who grew up in Crown Heights and Boro Park, has ambitious plans for The Bridge, where he hopes to build a computer lab, gallery space and a TV studio. The studio may be used to livestream cultural events and discussions on the Internet. In addition, he said, local charities and arts groups will be able to use space in the 6,000-square-foot center free of charge for their own events.</div>
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Appel told The Jewish Week that he first learned about diversity while hearing of his mother’s rescue at Auschwitz, where the soldiers who helped her survive included black and Asian Americans.</div>
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Appel worked for many years for nonprofit organizations, but made most of his money from real-estate investments, he said. He’s also played an active role in advocacy efforts, especially those geared to helping abused children and developmentally disabled children. That background earned him appointments during the Giuliani administration to the advisory board of the city’s Department of Mental Health and, later, to the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation.</div>
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The Bridge now has a staff of one, Dorinda Angelucci, who previously worked as a camerawoman for WABC-TV’s “Eyewitness News.”</div>
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Although the project is new for now, Appel said he hopes to form a task force that would represent all of Midwood’s major racial, religious and ethnic communities. But the one area in which he may have trouble achieving consensus is over the positions he takes on various political issues, including his opposition to “stop and frisk” police tactics and his support of vouchers to attend private and parochial schools — both heated issues in the community.</div>
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One elected leader who spoke at the open house, but wished to remain anonymous while talking about the subject to The Jewish Week, said most of the kids in his district attend public schools and, for that reason, would oppose anything that might siphon money away from public education.</div>
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Meanwhile, Appel and Angelucci hope to partner with other organizations, including the JCRC, that already work in the area of intergroup relations.</div>
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The JCRC, for instance, is behind the We Are All Brooklyn Coalition, which sponsors a leadership-training fellowship for teens and organizes training forums on issues of concern to the community, Kaplan said. He added that the fellowship program now has more than 200 alumni, including some in influential positions, and they represent a “great resource” for efforts like The Bridge. </div>
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Mark Meyer Appel raised $300,000 in private funds to repair the 6,000 square-foot brick building he has long owned on 1894 Flatbush Ave. Its renovated first floor open studio space, which can fit up to 300 people, will be lent out free of charge to nonprofits and art groups to host events.</h2>
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This Brooklyn Bridge is a different type of connector.<br />
A top advocate for Jewish victims of childhood sexual abuse is set to open The Bridge Project, a multicultural community center designed to host empowering talks about social justice issues. <strong>If we work together, we can do better and have a stronger voice,”said MARK MEYER APPEL</strong>, who raised $300,000 in private funds to convert and repair the 6,000-square-foot brick building he has long owned in Midwood.<br />
The new interactive facility on Flatbush Ave., set to open Sunday, will also house local meetings and events meant to unify the neighborhood.<br />
And its location is symbolic. It borders large, separate Hasidic and Haitian neighborhoods.<br />
Appel hopes the center will unite the two racial groups and many others in the borough, including Muslims.<br />
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“We, as advocates, have been able to effectively send a message and begin major changes in the way the government deals with child abuse, special education and health initiatives for the community,” he said.<br />
“The way these things were accomplished was by bringing diverse communities together.”<br />
The building’s renovated first floor of open studio space, which can fit up to 300 people, will be lent out for free to nonprofits and art groups to host events.<br />
Discussion topics to take place at the site include stop-and frisk, special education problems and rising poverty levels.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;"><b>The recent verdicts of the Ferguson and Garner jury have bought turmoil to our great nation,While we must respect the law and the findings of the grand juries one thing is clear. Policing in the United States needs a major overhaul. Young men of color as well young people of all races <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/how-much-racial-profiling-happens-in-ferguson/378606/" style="color: #0c739e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">face danger</a> when confronted by police officers while driving, walking or just hanging out., Urgent reforms are needed now to ensure the process of fair justice and to protect the lives of innocent persons, and to ensure that police officers deal with fairness in their actions</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">W</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e need changes that provide on going anti bias and increase funding which will provide for continued training on a continued basis and on a annual </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">basis , at the same time.. Texas has used such a system over the past decade to develop personnel expertise while satisfying the interests of specialized interest groups and legislated training mandates. Chiefs, academy directors, and POST commissions can and should provide recommendations regarding line personnel training issues as well as a supervisory curriculum that reflects a step-by-step, progressive education program. There has been considerable discussion in several states regarding “cafeteria”-style training programs. Such programs offer both mandated training topics as well as discretionary training preferences within defined timelines. Both limit impact on staffing and agency training costs. Such a system could provide the framework in which special interest, legislated, and profession-preferred training programs would be limited without adversely affecting basic training academy timelines.</span></b></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">The agreement between Speaker Silver and Mayor de Blasio ends the DOE’s practice of automatically challenging private school placements for children with special needs.</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>OU Advocacy partnered with and the New York Catholic Conference to support the Special Ed bills before the New York State legislature. <span style="font-size: x-large;">Last week, OU Advocacy and Yachad, the National Jewish Council for Disabilities (NJCD), brought a delegation of students</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> with special needs and <strong>parents to Albany to advocate for the bills.</strong></span><br />
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<strong>Key modifications to be implemented by the DOE in time for the upcoming school year include: expediting decisions about settling cases within 15 days; making tuition payments to parents on a monthly basis; providing a payment schedule to parents; reducing paperwork by only requiring parents to submit full documentation every three years; and refraining from re-litigating settled or decided cases, unless there is a change in the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP).</strong><br />
<strong>“This agreement provides much-needed financial and emotional relief to parents who have, in the past, had to resort to costly, time-consuming and emotionally-draining litigation as their only option to secure funding for their children’s education,” said Jeff Leb, New York State Director of OU Advocacy.</strong><br />
<strong>“For too long, New York City parents of children with special needs—whose IEPs have approved placement in non-public schools—have suffered needlessly through endless litigation, financial uncertainty and educational instability,” said Dr. Jeffrey Lichtman, International Director of Yachad. “We are hopeful that today’s deal with help thousands of New York City’s families.”</strong><br />
<strong>The Silver-de Blasio deal was preceded by Special Ed bill S.7691 passing in the New York State Senate. Sponsored by</strong> <strong><span style="color: blue;">Senator Simcha Felder</span>, that bill included many of the details included in the Silver-de Blasio deal. A sister bill was sponsored in the Assembly by Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein.</strong><br />
“<strong>We are extremely grateful to Speaker Silver and Mayor de Blasio for reaching this deal, to Senator Simcha Felder for sponsoring the Special Ed bill in the State Senate and ensuring its passing, as well as to Assembly Members Phil Goldfeder and Helene Weinstein for their unwavering support of the Special Ed bill in the Assembly,” Leb added. “We also want to thank the New York Catholic Conference for working with us to keep the concerns of families with children with special needs top of mind for our legislators.”</strong><br />
<strong>Noting that New York City had an opportunity to do “something foundational and right some wrongs,” Mayor de Blasio called the deal a “streamlined, parent-friendly, family-friendly, respectful approach.”</strong><br />
<strong>“Every child in this city deserves a quality education. But for years, parents of children with special needs have had to wait for the City to settle legitimate claims for tuition reimbursement. Today, we are turning the page, making changes that will ease the burden on these parents. We are cutting red tape, speeding up the process, and reaching outcomes that do right by families,” said Mayor de Blasio at today’s press conference.</strong><br />
<strong>“This is a great victory for our special needs children and their hardworking</strong> <strong>families,” said Speaker Silver. “For too long, parents of special needs children had to engage in a lengthy fight to get their children placed in a private school,” Silver said, adding that the deal “gives children with special needs the education they need and gives parents the emotional and financial relief they deserve.”</strong><br />
<strong>“We look forward to working with Mayor de Blasio’s team, particularly New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña” said Leb.</strong><br />
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The New York City Police Department is asking the public’s assistance ascertaining the whereabouts of a male reported missing on Thursday, May 22, 2014.</div>
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Missing:<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Berger, Aaron <br />22-year-old white male<br />559 West 188 Street Apt 25</b></span><br />NY, NYThe missing was last seen at 6:00PM on Monday, May 19, 2014 inside of his residence in Washington Heights, just 3 blocks away from Yeshiva University where he was studying throughout the year.</div>
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He was wearing black shoes and beige pants.</div>
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The missing is 6’2″ tall and weighs 180 pounds.</div>
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Anyone with information in regards to this missing is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS, or contact the Princeton Police Department at 609-921-2100, ext. 0.</div>
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The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM <span style="font-size: 11px;">or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.</span></div>
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“We simply cannot allow anyone walking on the streets of Brooklyn to be knocked to the ground, stomped and brutally beaten. Our streets must be free of such violence and everyone must adhere to the rule of law, including these defendants,” said District Attorney Ken Thompson.</div>
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Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said, “These indictments send a clear message that acts of vigilantism are unacceptable and cannot be condoned by the NYPD. I want to thank the NYPD’s investigators as well as the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office for their exceptional work in helping to bring these individuals to justice.”</div>
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The NYPD and the District Attorney’s Office launched an investigation to identify and prosecute the individuals who took part in the assault. According to court documents, the defendants began to chase Patterson along Flushing Avenue, while he was walking home in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Members of the patrol detained Patterson while investigating neighbors’ reports that he had damaged cars; however, they did not call the police. Despite the fact that these reports of vandalism proved to be unfounded, the group, which had grown to approximately 15 members, surrounded Patterson, preventing him from continuing his walk home. When Patterson tried to get away from the group, he was held down, and savagely punched and kicked by a number of the males surrounding him, including these defendants.</div>
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Patterson sustained injuries to his head and body, the most serious of which was a torn retina and a broken eye socket, causing him to lose vision in his right eye. The beating ceased only when passersby arrived and threatened to take pictures of the group assaulting Patterson. All of the assailants fled the scene, leaving Patterson on the ground injured. None of the attackers were present when the police and an ambulance responded to 911 calls.</div>
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The case was investigated by Prosecutors from the Investigations Division of the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, along with detectives from the New York Police Department Hate Crimes Task Force and the Intelligence Division.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">Prosecutors in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office dismissed all extortioin and bribery charges Friday morning against chasidic abuse whistleblower Sam Kellner. Assistant District Attorney Kevin O'Donnell, speaking in court Friday, said that his office conducted an independent review of the facts of the case and found the two witnesses against Kellner to be unreliable. After the ruling, Kellner told The Jewish Week, "At the lowest point in my life, the justice system reached over" and did the right thing. "I just want to say that everything I did was according to halacha and rabbinical OK. And what I learned is that following the rules will get you out of trouble, not into trouble."…AS REPORTED BY <b>HELLA WINSTON</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A demonstration was held yesterday outside of Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes's office to protest the <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/07/09/controversial_prosecution_of_hasidi.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">controversial prosecution</a> of Hasidic sex-abuse whistleblower Sam Kellner. Chaim Levin, a Jewish activist from Crown Heights, organized the protest, and called upon D.A. Hynes to drop all charges against Kellner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"We already know that the case against Kellner is falling apart," said Levin. "But the way it just became so abundantly clear that he's being wrongfully accused, and the real danger is not being pursued at all, it's just so disturbing and distressing."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/06/18/sexual_abuse_whistleblower_shunned.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">previously reported</a>, Kellner first came into the spotlight when he pushed for justice on behalf of his son and other alleged victims of sexual abuse within the ultra-Orthodox community. Kellner spoke out after learning that his son was allegedly molested by Borough Park rabbi/travel agent Baruch Lebovits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After obtaining permission from a rabbinical court to report the abuse to the Brooklyn DA's office, Kellner was told that prosecuting was useless and that unless he could prove Lebovits was a serial offender, he would most likely go free. As a result, Kellner found two victims to come forward, and Lebovits was convicted of eight counts of molestation. However, in spite of the conviction, Lebovits, 62, has not seen much jail time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The twist in the case comes when DA Charles Hynes indicted Kellner on charges of attempting to extort Lebovits, after the second victim recanted his statements and said that Kellner was bribing him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it was recently disclosed that the second victim recanted his statements again, clearing Kellner's name. And as <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/07/09/controversial_prosecution_of_hasidi.php" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we previously noted</a>, it's been learned that the victim is being paid not by Kellner, but by a man named Zalmen Ashkenazi, <a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2013/07/did-the-brooklyn-da-suborn-perjury-new-evidence-appears-to-show-that-he-likely-did-and-sam-kellners-123.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">a community activist is reportedly close</a> to Lebovits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<b>The precedent the D.A.'s office is setting is frightening," Levin said while protesting outside of 350 Jay Street. "Coming from an Orthodox community and having to deal with the culture of silence where my family told me to shut my mouth, my parents told me to shut my mouth, my Rabbi told me to shut my mouth and everyone said don't tell anyone."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mark Meyer Appel</b>, president of the <a href="http://voiceofjustice613.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">Voice of Justice</a>, who came in from Florida to attend the rally, feels that "there is no question that this man [Hynes] is a very seriously corrupt guy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"This case is absurd. I don't know how much longer this guy can get away with it," Appel said. "I happen to know the boy that recanted his testimony, and it's horrific, it's really horrific. This boy, everyone knows he was a victim, Kellner's son, he told half of New York including myself."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When asked what his ideal outcome for the case would be, Appell replied that he feels the DA is too embarrassed to drop the case, so they are doing a "slow step" backwards. "I would like this thing to go on, the trial to go on," he said, "because then we can subpoena everything and find out what really happened. Which is one of the reasons why they want to drop it."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The protest, which started at 11 a.m., had dissipated by noon, but organizer Levin said he was "happy with the turnout." He also pointed out that the DA's office had hosted a <a href="http://www.bayridgeodyssey.com/2013/07/arrests-in-massage-parlor-prostitution-ring/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">press conference on a Brooklyn prostitution ring bust</a> at the same time.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">But he and others are now exploiting the political momentum behind pre-K to pursue agendas that have nothing to do with early education — whether it’s redistributing wealth, flexing muscles, currying favor or just getting reelected.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">And as they do so, they’re using the 4- and 5-year-olds they claim to care so much about as pawns in a political game.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">De Blasio set the pattern by artificially yoking his pre-K proposal to a temporary tax hike on city residents making $500,000 or more.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">As a campaign strategy, it worked brilliantly. He was the guy who wanted to take from the rich to give to poor children — a message that hit a sweet spot with voters.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Policywise, however, a tax that goes away after five years — as de Blasio proposes — makes no sense as a way of financing a permanent expansion of public education.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Plus, he doesn’t really need the money. According to the Independent Budget Office, the city is currently running a $2.4 billion surplus and is on track to be $1.9 billion in the black next year.</span></b></div>
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<b>Hiking taxes became even less necessary when Gov. Cuomo declared that Albany would pick up he entire pre-K tab — not just in New York City, but across the state. But de Blasio turned up his nose at this extraordinarily generous offer — claiming the sum the governor’s offering is insufficient and suggesting that his way, and only his way, “will serve the best interests of the children <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;">t</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit;">of our city.”</span></b></div>
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<b>His argument that he needs the dedicated tax to provide “stable, consistent, reliable” funding for pre-K doesn’t hold water, though. Taxes on the wealthy are especially unreliable and inconsistent, because they fluctuate with the ups and downs of the economy.</b></div>
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<b>All of which suggests that he wants to tax the rich for its own sake — and pre-K is a useful means to that end.</b></div>
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<b>The motives behind Cuomo’s sudden zeal on the issue are transparent as well.</b></div>
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De Blasio’s pre-K plan put the governor in a tight spot: Going along would violate Cuomo’s pledge against tax hikes, but opposing it would alienate his Democratic base. So he proposed financing pre-K out of the state budget as a way of threading that needle while reasserting his status as the alpha dog of New York politics.</div>
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“I support a statewide system because the children in New York City are precious and so are the children in Buffalo and so are the children in Albany and so are the children in Suffolk,” he said on WNYC. “I’m not going to leave behind the children in any part of this state. That is not going to happen. And no one should want it to happen.”</div>
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It was a clever bit of rhetorical <i>jiu-jitsu</i> , bludgeoning de Blasio with his own “tale of two cities” rhetoric. In truth, nothing about de Blasio’s plan would in any way deny pre-K to children in Buffalo, Albany or Suffolk.</div>
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Still, local politicians across the state — eager to be on the good side of a powerful governor — rushed to parrot his disingenuous argument.</div>
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“Every single child deserves early education, regardless of which ZIP code they were born in, or how many millionaires there are in their community to foot the bill,” said Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster.</div>
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“New York is one state, and we should serve every child in it, no matter what city they live in,” Middletown Mayor Joseph DeStefano weighed in.</div>
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Also stepping forward as supposed champions of children were three state senators who declared themselves “deeply offended by Mayor Bill de Blasio’s recent assertion that the children in New York City are more deserving and more in need of early childhood education than the 4- and 5-year-olds in the communities we represent.” That was the joint statement by John Flanagan of Long Island, John DeFrancisco of Syracuse and Joe Robach of Rochester — members of a Senate GOP caucus that has not previously made a priority of pre-K, universal or otherwise.</div>
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Portraying New York City’s mayor as a money-grabbing bogeyman is a convenient way of pandering to their constituents in an election year.</div>
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Let’s stipulate that all of these elected officials are, behind their political posturing, decent human beings who care about children. All or most of them will wind up supporting whatever compromise pre-K plan results from this kabuki show — which, hopefully, will do good things for kids.</div>
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In the meantime, all of them should give the holier-than-thou rhetoric a rest.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr</b>. once said, <strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'"</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each year, Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on the King Holiday to serve their neighbors and communities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #292727; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">People worldwide will honor the memory of Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. by making Monday a "no shots fired" day and ringing church bells in support of non-violence.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #292727; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">"Dr. King's philosophy of non-violence is more relevant, I believe, than it was 10 years ago," King's daughter, Bernice, told Reuters.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #292727; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">In a time of school shootings and increasingly violent movies, television shows and video games, his message of non-violence should continue to resonate, said his daughter, chief executive officer of the Atlanta-based Martin Luther King Center which promotes his philosophy of non-violence.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #292727; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">"America has an enormous appetite for violence. I don't know why we have such an affinity for that, but I do know it has to stop," she said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #292727; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">As part of the birthday tributes, the Atlanta branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) began a gun buyback program, hoping to get 1,000 weapons off the city's streets.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #292727; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">King, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was assassinated four years later in Memphis, Tennessee.</span><br />
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This year, U.S. Jews, like other Americans, will mark Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by remembering him as a powerful voice against racism and for civil rights. But, for Jews, Dr. King was also something else: a uniquely important ally in the fight against anti-Semitism and for a secure Israel.</div>
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Today, Dr. King’s close bond with the Jewish community is treated only as a small footnote of his life and work. But, toward the end of his life, Dr. King devoted significant time and energy to strengthening what were becoming increasingly strained ties between black Americans and U.S. Jews. One issue Dr. King was particularly concerned with was the growing mischaracterization of Zionism as racism.</div>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, times, serif;">” He goes on, “The majority of those Jews who went south to help blacks or who demonstrated in their communities or gave <nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/MLK-Jr-and-his-relationship-to-the-jewish-people,2966?page=2&content_source=#" id="FALINK_2_0_1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">money to</a></nobr> the movement were neither rabbis nor adherents of Orthodoxy. It was just the opposite, in fact, most Jews who participated in the movement were the least religious of Jews”</b><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;"> Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel and King developed an inextricable bond and friendship based on the common commitment to social justice. In fact, Heschel marched arm in arm with King at the head of the Selma to Montgomery protest in March 1965.</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;">Heschel told his daughter Susannah after the march, “I felt my legs were <nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/MLK-Jr-and-his-relationship-to-the-jewish-people,2966?page=2&content_source=#" id="FALINK_3_0_2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">praying</a></nobr>.” King expressed his appreciation of Heschel’s involvement: “Often I have seen religious leaders stand amid the social injustice that pervades our society, mouthing pious irrelevancies… But here and there we find those who refuse to remain silent behind the safe security of stained glass windows… He (Heschel) has been with us in many of our struggles. I remember marching from Selma to Montgomery, how he stood at my side...”</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;">As expressed by Rabbi Marc Schneier, American Jews began protesting against the Soviet government’s discriminatory anti-Jewish policies commencing in the early 1960’s. Heschel embraced this important cause and so did King. King expressed his thoughts on the discrimination against Soviet Jews as follows: ”Injustice to any people is a threat to justice to all people… and I cannot stand idly by… and fail to be concerned about what happens to my brothers and sisters who happen to be Jews in Soviet Russia. For what happens to them, happens to me and you…”</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>King also strongly advocated on behalf of Israel’s security. King expressed support for Israel in 1968 when he said: “Peace for Israel means security and we must stand with al</b>l <b>our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity… peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality</b>.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><img align="left" border="0" height="57" src="http://15minutesmagazine.com/images/graphics/s.gif" width="41" />TATE Assemblyman <b>Dov Hikind</b>, who led a group of his Brooklyn constituents to Gaza to support the settlers who refuse to budge from their homes, told me he’s making plans for another trip.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">“I’m taking hundreds from all over the United States. We’ll arrive in Israel on June 6, the anniversary of the Six Day War. We’ll camp in Kissufim, just outside of Gaza.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">“Jews should not be forced to abandon their homes. If there will be peace, and Arabs should live together.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">And what happens if the military stop you from entering the region?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">“That would be pathetic,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">Hikind was one of a multitude of speakers at a benefit at the Puck Building in New York for Beitar, a settlement located between Jerusalem and Efrat.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dinner chair <b>Mark Meyer Appel</b>,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> a real estate investment banker, described a visit to </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Beitar last July to meet </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mayor <b>Yitzhak Pindrus</b>. The appointment was for 8 a.m. The secretary assured Appel that the mayor would be on time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">“What are his hours?” Appel asked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">“He works from 8 to 8.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">“From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.? That’s a hectic schedule.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">“Actually from 8 a.m. to 8 a.m.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">Pindrus lauded Ezra Friedlander for producing the New York benefit. The 400 dinner guests raised $250,000 for his fast growing city, which now numbers 25,000 people.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">The mayor singled out <b>Elie Hirschfeld</b> for effusive praise. Hirschfeld, a standout New York real estate developer, built a much-needed children’s playground.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">Pindrus was grateful to investment banker <b>Joseph Sprung</b> for organizing a group including real estate manager <b>Ruben Margules, </b>Sephardic leader <b>Eddie Shama</b> and real estate<nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://15minutesmagazine.com/archives/issue_66/mai_0505-01.htm#" id="FALINK_3_0_2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 91, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; display: inline !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">investor</a></nobr> <b>Ron Rettner</b> that raised funds for an emergency medical center, and</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">. Domb is a major philanthropist and prominent real estate operator. Noe heads OTR Media Group, responsible for the colorful billboard all over Times Square.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Charles Schumer</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, senior U.S. Senator from New York, said the rest of the world is beginning to realize “what we knew all along: the majority of Israelis wish to live in peace but the majority of the Palestinians and the majority of the Arabs do not. They view the land as all theirs and want Israel to cease to exist.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">Schumer revealed the origin of his name when he said, “Hashem gave me the name <i>shomer</i> [guardian] and that’s been my job – to be a <i>shomer</i> for the United States, New York and Israel.”</span></div>
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The Cohen family, of Houston, TX, is facing a battle none of us should have to go through - aggressive brain cancer in their 6-year old son Refael Elisha. Having recently received the devastating news from their doctors that "there is nothing more we can do for him", the Cohens are turning to a last resort - Antineoplaston Therapy at the Burzyinski clinic. However, the FDA pulled their approval for this treatment in 2012 pending further clinical trials. We are told that the FDA is nearing approval to resume this treatment, but Refael Elisha does not have time to wait.</div>
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The FDA has the power to approve a "compassionate use exemption" so Refael Elisha can undergo this therapy to try and save his life.</div>
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We are asking the FDA to grant this exemption so we can continue to fight for his life.</div>
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voiceofjustice613http://www.blogger.com/profile/08348460768429187325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657225810274278373.post-89557398585909509152013-09-20T05:19:00.000-07:002013-09-20T18:34:48.713-07:00CHARLES JOE HYNES CONCEDE WITH DIGNITY ...... KINGS COUNTY DEMOCRATS VOTED IN A LANDSLIDE VOTE FOR KEN THOMPSON AS DISTRICT ATTORNEY <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 22.390625px;">THE VOTERS OF KINGS COUNTY HAVE SPOKEN IN A LANDSLIDE VOTE BY SELECTING KENNETH THOMPSON AS DEMOCRAT NOMINEE FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF KINGS COUNTY.MR HYNES NOW IT IS TIME TO ACCEPT DEFEAT AND LEAVE THIS OFFICE WITH SOME DIGNITY. AS A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT YOU MUST ACCEPT REALITY AND MOVE ON.THREATENING TO RUN AS A REPUBLICAN OR CONSERVATIVE WILL FURTHER DAMAGE YOUR ALREADY TARNISHED LEGACY.IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON AND UNITE ALL OF OUR</span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; line-height: 22.390625px;"> </span><span style="color: blue; line-height: 22.390625px;">CITIZENS OF BROOKLYN IN SUPPORTING KENNETH THOMPSON AS OUR NEW DISTRICT ATTORNEY</span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Sources say that Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, a Democrat, is leaning toward actively running as a Republican for re-election but his final decision will depend on whether his financial advisers think he can raise enough money, said sources familiar with the campaign.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">CHARLES HYNES, 78, lost in the Democratic primary to attorney </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">KEN THOMPSON by more than 10 percentage points. After losing, Hynes noted that he was still listed on the Republican and Conservative party ballots but said he would not be campaigning.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">But in recent days, as reported first in this space, Hynes has been approached by Republican party officials and others to reconsider, particularly because Democratic areas of south Brooklyn deemed Hynes strongholds didn’t turn out and vote in the primary.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b> </b>MR CHARLES HYNES DO THE RIGHT THING AND LEAVE THIS OFFICE </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"><span style="color: blue;">WITH DIGNITY AND FAIRNESS TO THE PEOPLE </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">T</span><b style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">he year was 1990. George H.W. Bush was president. The song "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips was number one on the Billboard chart. And </b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Charles "Joe" Hynes</span><span style="font-size: 15px;">,</span></span><b style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px;"> celebrated for his role as a special prosecutor in a racially charged case in Howard Beach, began his first term as <nobr style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/charles-hynes-brooklyn-district-attorney-election_n_3881395.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york#" id="FALINK_2_0_1" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Brooklyn</a></nobr> District Attorney.</b></div>
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<b>Bush's presidency came and went; his son's did too. Wilson Phillips went on a 10-year hiatus; then got back together in 2004.</b></div>
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Hynes, all along the w ballad instructed: He's held on. He's been Brooklyn's top law man for nearly 24 years, making him one of the longest serving district attorneys in New York City history.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>But Hynes's once firm grasp on the position could be imperiled. Buffeted by controversial cases, charges of misconduct in his office, and concerns about possibly preferential <nobr style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/charles-hynes-brooklyn-district-attorney-election_n_3881395.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york#" id="FALINK_3_0_2" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">treatment</a></nobr> for Jewish residents of the borough, Hynes is seen by political strategists to be facing a serious challenge from Kenneth Thompson, an African-American former federal prosecutor. On Tuesday, Sept. 10, voters in the Brooklyn Democratic primary could deny Hynes a chance at a seventh term</b>.</span></div>
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<b>Almost all prosecutors who stay in office for lengthy terms wind up facing a familiar array of complaints – about cases lost, creeping arrogance, political gamesmanship. Robert M. Morgenthau, revered by many across his decades as Manhattan's top prosecutor, had his share of critics and embarrassments, the troubled prosecution of five teenagers for the rape of a woman in Central Park among them.</b></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Some of the complaints about Hynes, then, fit that mold: He's been accused of <nobr style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/charles-hynes-brooklyn-district-attorney-election_n_3881395.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york#" id="FALINK_1_0_0" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">hiring</a></nobr>and firing people based on favoritism and political connections and he's been taken to task for some failed or underwhelming prosecutions. Even his once reliable base of support, the borough's Orthodox Jewish community, has seemed to split, some angered that Hynes has made a series of pedophilia cases against people in their ranks, others disappointed that he was late to the issue and overly lenient in his handling of the cases.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>But Thompson, who served in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, has focused his criticism on the question of wrongful convictions and possible misconduct by prosecutors over the years in Hynes's office.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>On the campaign trail Thompson, for instance, has cited withering criticism from two federal judges over the way one of Hynes's top prosecutors won a wrongful conviction in a high-profile murder case.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes has defended the work of his office, rejecting any claims that he permits or encourages misconduct. He has campaigned on what he asserts are his myriad novel and effective approaches to fighting crime.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Both the district attorney's office and Hynes's campaign did not respond to requests for comment.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Little public polling has been done in the race. Turnout could play a role. And Hynes, whatever his arguable travails, has history on his side.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323407104579039293738731678.html" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">No incumbent district attorney has lost an election</a> in any of New York's boroughs since 1955. A Brooklyn district attorney hasn't been unseated via the vote since 1911.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Some of Hynes's campaign woes can be traced to the conduct of <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/a-prosecutor-a-wrongful-conviction-and-a-question-of-justice" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Michael Vecchione</a>, the head of Hynes's Rackets Bureau. He's a polarizing figure who has drawn heavy criticism for his conduct in and out of the courtroom.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Now the defendant, a Brooklyn man named Jabbar Collins who spent 16 years in prison, is suing the city for millions as part of a far-reaching wrongful conviction lawsuit. His lawyer, Manhattan-based attorney Joel Rudin, is attempting to make the case that misconduct in Hynes's office is so pervasive that Hynes must have actually condoned it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Vecchione's career in the district attorney's office spans more than two decades. In 2003, the district attorney's office was <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/5-yr-break-prosecutor-won-face-heat-article-1.671769" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">forced to vacate the conviction</a> of a man they suspected of being involved in at least three murders when a federal court agreed to hear allegations that Vecchione had withheld evidence in the man's trial.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>In 2006, Vecchione tried to prosecute former FBI agent R. Lindley DeVecchio for helping arrange the murders of gangsters on behalf of mob boss Greg Scarpa. Hynes called it "the most stunning example of official corruption [he] had ever seen." But<a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2007/10/prosecutors_to.php" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">the case fell apart</a> just days into trial when it became clear that Vecchione's chief witness was unstable and had given false testimony.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>More recently, The New York Post reported that Vecchione <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/da_aide_buries_notes_rB2V8pM3OL5ilftqHbfx2H" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">instructed staff not to preserve exculpatory evidence</a> in sex-trafficking cases during a training session in 2012.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Vecchione has denied all charges of misconduct, and he testified under oath that he<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/less-than-total-recall" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">did not remember the details </a>of what took place at the training session for sex-trafficking cases in 2012.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes has staunchly defended Vecchione, who continues to be one of the highest-paid prosecutors in the office. Earlier this year, Hynes allowed Vecchione to be a featured character in a CBS television show called Brooklyn DA.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>ProPublica in 2013 has published a <a href="http://www.propublica.org/series/out-of-order" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">series of articles investigating prosecutorial misconduct</a> and the lack of consequences for prosecutors who commit serious violations of the law. Vecchione was the subject of one of those articles.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes's office did not respond to ProPublica's request for comment on Vecchione's history and its possible impact on Hynes's re-election effort.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Last spring, Hynes asked a judge to vacate the conviction of a man his office had mistakenly prosecuted for the murder of a Brooklyn rabbi. Hynes blamed a detective in the case for the wrongful conviction, and ordered his office to review 50 cases involving the detective.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>The investigation has obvious implications for the now-retired detective, Louis Scarcella, who has publicly denied he ever did anything wrong. But Hynes's<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/watching-the-detectives-will-probe-of-cops-cases-extend-to-prosecutors" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">prosecutors had vouched for the detective's work</a> in the cases, using the confessions he had allegedly won or the evidence he had produced to send people to prisons. Two of the prosecutors involved in Scarcella cases have gone on to work as New York State judges; four are now senior officials in the district attorney's office.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Thompson and other critics of Hynes pounced when it became clear that a 12-member panel of lawyers and judges appointed by Hynes to oversee the review of the 50 cases included three people who had <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/pal_probing_hynes_6OkYYjyS2ivU9Wv9aaDpIM" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">donated to Hynes's campaign</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes has said he is convinced of the panel's independence, and that the investigation will go where the evidence takes it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>The New York Times reported Friday that its examination of some of Scarcella's cases<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/nyregion/as-doubts-over-detective-grew-prosecutors-also-made-missteps.html?hp" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">showed that prosecutors either ignored warning signs or made missteps</a> of their own.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes told the Times that the investigation so far had not turned up evidence that would require revisiting the propriety of a conviction. But he did not address the paper's findings about the conduct of his prosecutors.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Detaining Witnesses</span></h2>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes's training procedures and office policies have also come under fire.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>A Brooklyn man seeking to have his murder conviction overturned <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/a-powerful-legal-tool-and-its-potential-for-abuse" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">has accused Hynes's office of holding a witness against his will</a> until he agreed to testify as prosecutors wanted in the case.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>That case, which is now before a federal judge, has fueled an effort by Jabbar Collins's lawyer to establish that Hynes's office routinely detained and coerced witnesses in violation of the law. The accusation, made as part of Collins's lawsuit against Hynes and the city, deals with a powerful legal tool called the material witness order. The orders are supposed to be used only under rare circumstances, usually when prosecutors fear a potential witness might flee instead of testifying in court.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>New York law requires that prosecutors bring any material witness straight to court.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>But Collins's lawyer, along with several other defense lawyers are seeking to hold prosecutors accountable for abusing the orders, alleging that witnesses were never brought before a judge or provided with a lawyer, as the law requires.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes has denied allegations that his prosecutors failed to abide by the law in their handling of witnesses.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Favoritism</span></h2>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes's hiring and firing decisions have also proven fodder during the campaign, and Thompson has seized on them.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>The New York Post reported this summer that Mark Posner, a lawyer in the office's powerful Rackets Bureau, was caught <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/07/29/brooklyn-prosecutor-isnt-fired-after-calling-hookers-from-work-phone/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">using his office phone to call prostitutes</a>. The Post article said Posner was found out by his own colleagues, who were investigating a local prostitution ring.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Posner is the son of a longtime ally of Hynes, Charles Posner. The elder Posner had served as Hynes's liaison to Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community, and Hynes had later recommended him for a judgeship. Posner, who died in 2004, served as a State Supreme Court justice for nearly a decade.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes did not fire Mark Posner after learning of his misconduct. Instead, he suspended him for 10 days and transferred him to the Early Case Assessment Bureau, a low-level desk where prosecutors analyze arrests and make judgments on what charges to pursue.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>At the time Posner was caught, Brooklyn DA spokesman Jerry Schmetterer told the Post that Hynes acted as soon as he learned of Posner's conduct by suspending him, ordering him to seek counseling, and demoting him.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Posner didn't immediately respond to a voice message left at his home. And neither Hynes's office nor his campaign responded to questions from ProPublica.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>In January 2012, <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-06-12/news/charles-hynes-murder-witness/" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hynes hired a woman named Angel DiPietro</a> to become an assistant district attorney. It was a hire with a backstory.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Eight years earlier, DiPietro was a witness in the murder case of Mark Fisher, a Fairfield University student-athlete in Prospect Park South. She was with Fisher and friends in Brooklyn the night he was killed. At the time, a spokesman for the police department told the New York Times that DiPietro demonstrated "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/nyregion/months-after-killing-few-answers-investigation-stalls-in-brooklyn-shooting.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a lack of full-hearted cooperation</a>." Police Commissioner Ray Kelly himself described DiPietro and seven of her other friends as "uncooperative."</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Eventually DiPietro testified at trial and two people she was with that night were found guilty of the murder.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>DiPietro's father, a defense attorney in Brooklyn, had been a regular contributor to Hynes's political campaigns, and in the months after DiPietro was hired, he donated another $3,000 to Hynes's 2013 political campaign.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>DiPietro, contacted by telephone, referred ProPublica to the spokesman for the district attorney's office. The spokesman did not respond to request for comment.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>James DiPietro, Angel's father, did agree to an interview.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>"I wish I could've given him more," DiPietro's father said of his donations to Hynes. He said that his daughter was first offered the job in 2010 and fully deserved it on her own merits. And he asserted that his daughter had in fact cooperated fully in the Fisher murder investigation.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: small;">Selective Prosecutions</span></h2>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>In 1996 Hynes indicted a Brooklyn political gadfly named John O'Hara. The charge was modest: voting from his girlfriend's apartment, which was outside of his own election district. After three separate trials, O'Hara was found guilty, lost his law license, and was sentenced to community service.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>O'Hara has always claimed that Hynes went after him because he'd run for city council and assembly seats against some of Hynes's allies.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Thirteen years later, in 2009, a <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/begging-gov-pardon-john-o-hara-article-1.1165232" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">grievance committee bolstered O'Hara's account</a>. It restored his license, saying there were "grave doubts that Mr. O'Hara did anything that justified his criminal prosecution."</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>In 2012, The New York Times ran a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/nyregion/for-ultra-orthodox-in-child-sex-abuse-cases-prosecutor-has-different-rules.html?pagewanted=all&gwh=2A4D632E6D857859079A6EFC26E51B7E" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">stinging series of articles</a> on how Hynes's office for years handled investigations of accused sexual predators in the Orthodox Jewish communities. The series established that Hynes had allowed many of the accusations to be handled by rabbinical courts rather than prosecuting the cases himself.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>Hynes initially defended the way he handled the sex abuse cases, but eventually pledged reforms and began prosecuting them with more vigor.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Allegations of racism, sex abuse, and dead chickens. The race for Kings County District Attorney, in which former federal prosecutor Ken Thompson is looking to dethrone 23-year incumbent Charles Hynes, has been marked by the kind of fiery rhetoric and vicious mud-slinging that the mayoral race has lacked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A string of <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/05/12/shady_nypd_detectives_skeletons_pro.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wrongful convictions,</a> <a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/12/01/post_162.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sex abuse cover-ups,</a> as well as <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/09/rev_clinton_mil.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">a general lack of decorum</a> have made the 78-year-old Charles Hynes, a product of the Brooklyn Democratic machine, vulnerable for the first time since the Giuliani administration. In order to win the Democratic primary on September 10th (there is no Republican challenger) both candidates have worked to win over the single most important and nearly unanimous voting bloc in the borough: The Satmar Jews of Williamsburg.</span></div>
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<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Advertisements portraying DA Hynes as a chicken to be sacrificed during the Yom Kippur period of atonement have run alongside <a href="http://www.dailyluach.com/mag/0902/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">ads depicting Thompson as snake,</a> coiled to strike the Orthodox community.<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/09/fowl-play-in-brooklyn-da-race" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">Both campaigns deny</a> having anything to do with the ads.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>For years, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/nyregion/for-ultra-orthodox-in-child-sex-abuse-cases-prosecutor-has-different-rules.html?pagewanted=all" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">Hynes has worked to protect the identities of sex abusers in the cloistered community,</a> a privilege afforded to no other group in the city. In response to Hynes's prejudices, Thompson has launched a campaign promising “fair treatment for all.”</b></span></div>
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But will that cost him the votes from a bloc that may soon make Brooklyn <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/east-ramapo-hasidim-2013-4/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">look more like Rockland County?</a></div>
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"When a Jew is arrested, to whom do you go [for help]?” <a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2013/09/das-campaign-releases-yiddish-ad-touting-hynes-as-haredi-criminals-savior-345.html" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">implores one poster,</a> with a picture of Hynes standing next to the Munkatcher Rebbe, who works to keep Jews out of jail. “To Jewish leaders who act on behalf of the Jewish community,” it continues. Next to Hynes it is written, “He helped us, he helps us, and he will help us some more.”</div>
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Critics of the 78-year-old Hynes, <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/03/27/at_long_last_brooklyn_da_gets_reali.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who starred in his own reality show this summer</a>, say he's cultivated the support of the Orthodox Haredi community by half-heartedly prosecuting sex abusers from the community. Since the media has brought Hynes’s neglect to light, he has worked to portray himself as tough on sex abusers. But as the election has drawn closer, he’s been eager to play the role of the candidate that will protect the Haredi community.</div>
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New York City Councilman David Greenfield, a surrogate for Hynes, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/nyregion/prosecutor-silent-on-questionable-claim.html" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">has said that </a>Thompson will “target the Jewish community.”</div>
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“The most important thing I’m going to do as District Attorney, is have one standard of justice for everyone in Brooklyn,” Thompson told us. “Joe Hynes has spoken words that are words that divide. Disgraceful words to speak about an entire community.”</div>
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Throughout the campaign Hynes has often put his foot in his mouth, first comparing the Orhtodox community <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V60kSLQAId0" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">to the mafia,</a> and then also <a href="http://hamodia.com/2013/08/27/interview-brooklyn-da-charles-hynes-seeks-a-seventh-term/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">telling an Orthodox newspaper that</a> “the black community, by and large, is mine.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Thompson, who is black, wants voters to see these slip-ups as indicative of an older, out-of-touch District Attorney whose department is in a state of disarray. Earlier this year, it came to light that the testimony of an NYPD detective could</span><a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/03/31/detective_who_helped_convict_man_fo.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">have falsely imprisoned hundreds of people under Hynes's watch</a><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
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"What I’m determined to do is to carry out the fundamental role of a DA and that is to do justice," Thompson said. "It is not justice when someone is in jail for a murder they did not commit. Charles Hynes is now investigating 50 homicide cases by the NYPD Detective Scarcella. That is extraordinary—I’ve never heard of that being done by any DA in the city.</div>
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“What he is essentially saying is that there are innocent men and women who may still be in prison. How did we get to that point? Detective Scarcella worked hand-in-hand with the Brooklyn DA office. Hynes now has an inherent conflict of interest to not truly investigate those cases.”</div>
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Thompson, who grew up in Brooklyn as the son of one of the first female NYPD officers to walk a beat, rose to prominence as an Assistant U.S. Attorney working on the Abner Louima case, prosecuting NYPD officer Justin Volpe. After leaving the U.S. Attorney’s office, Thompson went into private practice, most famously representing Nafissatou Diallo, the housekeeper who claimed IMF-head <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/08/08/7_things_that_are_more_erotic_than.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dominique Strauss-Kahn</a> sexually assaulted her.</div>
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While the race has remained tight all summer, it got even closer when a third candidate, Manhattan ADA Abe George, dropped out. He said it was to ensure that Thompson had a real chance to beat Hynes and not just split the vote progressive vote.</div>
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“For me, running was all about making Brooklyn better. I pulled out to beat Hynes. There’s a terrible pattern of wrongful convictions. <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/02/16/federal_judge_wrongfully_convicted.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jabar Collins.</a> <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/01/24/federal_judge_frees_wrongfully_conv.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">William Lopez.</a> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/exclusive-brooklyn-man-freed-prison-20-years-thanks-daily-news-article-1.990067" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">Derrick Hamilton,</a>” George told us. “Hynes is not treating neighborhoods exactly the same in Brooklyn. In the Orthodox community, certain defendants, pedophiles, weren’t being treated the same as they were in other parts of Brooklyn. Also, Hynes has been silent on stop and frisk until the very last minute.”</div>
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Thompson believes that stop and frisk has a place in law enforcement, but that it has been abused by the NYPD. “I believe that if stop and frisk is done the right way it can help save lives. I have a young family, I have a 9-year-old daughter and six-year-old son, and we live in Clinton Hill. Sometimes we hear gun shots, and stop and frisk helps get guns off the street,” Thompson said, echoing the <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/05/22/stop_frisk_way_better_at_finding_we.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dubious claims of the mayor and the police commissioner.</a></div>
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“But at the same time we can’t continue to stop tens of thousands of innocent black and Latino young men who are walking down the street minding their own business," Thompson said. "Hynes has said stop and frisk isn’t his concern. I disagree. The Brooklyn DA has a role to play in stop and frisk. My son will be sixteen before I know it, and I shouldn’t have to worry about him being stopped and frisked just going to the store. I want stops based on reasonable suspicion, not race.”</div>
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The race, however, will most likely be decided by the ultra-Orthodox voting blocs. Hynes has continued to give the impression that he is protecting ultra-Orthodox sex abusers, most recently <a href="http://gothamist.com/2013/07/12/protesters_blast_brooklyn_da_for_pr.php" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">prosecuting a Hasidic whistleblower</a> who was ostracized after he pushed for justice on behalf of his son and other alleged victims of sexual abuse within the ultra-Orthodox community. Yesterday, Hynes <a href="http://nycelects.com/2013/09/04/satmar-ahrony-sect-endorses-charles-hynes-for-brooklyn-da/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">won the votes of the powerful Ahrony sect,</a> who will now vote en masse for Hynes, a payoff for his long-time protection of the Haredi community.</div>
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“In their minds, no Haredi belongs in prison, even if guilty, except for an out of control murderer, perhaps,” Shmarya Rosenberg, <a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">an influential blogger who covers the Haredi community,</a> told us.</div>
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While Hynes has prosecuted a handful of sexual abusers in the community, that hasn’t been enough to turn the community against him.</div>
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According to Rosenberg, Thompson supporters are “Primarily a small number of Haredim who are fed up with the corruption of their leaders and other Haredim who are upset that <a href="http://gothamist.com/tags/nechemyaweberman" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nechemya Weberman</a> and <a href="http://gothamist.com/tags/rabbibaruchlebovits" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #666666; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rabbi Baruch Lebovits</a> were prosecuted for child sex abuse.”</div>
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Rosenberg adds that many Haredi “will probably vote for Hynes if their rabbis and rebbes signal that they should do so. And many hasidic rebbes and haredi rabbis are, in fact, working to turn out their bloc votes for Hynes. They fear what would happen to their special deals with the D.A. if Thompson is elected.”</div>
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voiceofjustice613http://www.blogger.com/profile/08348460768429187325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657225810274278373.post-84868214846871864472013-09-02T12:58:00.000-07:002013-09-02T12:58:18.067-07:00LABOR DAY 2013 HAPPY HOLIDAY ................. KEEP OUR CHILDREN SAFE<h1 style="color: #003399; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; padding: 3px;">
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Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means</h3>
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<span style="color: blue;">Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From these, a movement developed to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.</span></div>
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More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.</div>
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Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."</div>
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But Peter McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.</div>
voiceofjustice613http://www.blogger.com/profile/08348460768429187325noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1657225810274278373.post-62846557308756563952013-08-30T08:51:00.000-07:002013-08-30T08:53:53.677-07:00WHY ARE ROCKLAND D.A THOMAS ZUGIBE AND BROOKLYN D.A CHARLES HYNES PROTECTING CRIMINALS<br />
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<span style="color: #7f4931; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>This is not an isolated incident, but rather a pattern where Rockland District Attorney Thomas Zugibe is agreeing to and the judges are granting no-jail-time probation "sentences" to child molesters, among them <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001daEBbwEsXGZkuy5XdRP6nY43QY2iWz5h7wZq1B_CrFdJZfTek8Oq2lCg14FPvMAYTfUO0NnYSXWLSno3nQILCNNS4NPbQ9rYg_d4SErss4XLkwp--DOHqHDouG_mAUPc50VYIAbJ5ai52cjpbpQ7OxfwPCZUPPLUq21ZDQq-tp75qa1voNF0jB9MHUdNcYwEZmFzXg5h4dYYs5cZR9LLFjjuOu-iy9lXBNYAqqsK6rIe6M2K3Trn-PhXEfbpxrl2piKolx9vFty07dMf3Y2cuFqxgZyJsok82HYsqGTavXbYG5koxmRAt2A1R1mkNHra-vyH0YW0ucWkElHylhCOUMvcT3eoEcYPc2CNZjInkmZg1EDxwg03XPf_Q8Ims5v2h2zg70iryV8lxWVGRPvLIfBeYsoYSjj0" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="http://goo.gl/kFl4qd"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Shmuel Dym</span></a> and <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001daEBbwEsXGYBveHZDy4b7wzvXwVDuN54-OPWXg7zyz_fXbHjUVQptJNjfGfEQm1mVk4XiL1yyz24Qx5xx2M89LR0grTNdzuYM3ex0JztH13W8nulv59OMxd3sJIFmxR7Sn4MVn1OnOQ0taarhNjlBa4sVFPBrXHAe49ICgbX4R3vCYp-5e0U4V78bVgQhSXhg-wvZ-sCaF6s2EZZA3sYbhUeoqX_fM5TNULSp5vRr6KFdcOkDrlgl9DIAU9HkSYvyhCOMyD0rFH7M-_Un2N6BqYG2PDV3DWjWghu2GeFG33fcMTmgwrtleuvMGXXx4v54xxFDDchq_wxpDbYoJpcv4Q6zZHKopiq4FhKoRyFLibb0jY8zLGMdUHvB9V0cVPvCPVWjAtwbujgyRz82kAgO8baNZbkJERe" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank" title="http://goo.gl/8PPg62"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Moishe Turner</span></a>. (Turner was recently found davening in a Wesley Hill shul until he was banished by people who read about his sex-offender status in our recent emails on the child safety matter.)</b></span></span></div>
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If you think differently, just have a look at how Turner and Dym, who are both registered sex offenders, (see <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001daEBbwEsXGZpsnNItcjiwkQ2QMuw4kQwM3LEWv1ZOT5yISLc3KxCV2co7W61wMVj05zfJnldhngE8s0t9bLtD3GP07vTraJXLtGdqd0YJyuVJN3ZraSlKNco68rBxtmcijTdt-nxkMAKjMA6-_Ns-HvI_XJMfRhZEjMe_-QhYDG8mWvSRmZIV1YiAc6glx8G7AdTZY3JY99moY7r_d4uxTaw2TYppykl1_9zVrtkUi6MdM6R04APo710cpbRpYsjiHniNcro7VnR9ewRyWA10nSGyIySdxYvuU-own64clI4q28SO4IPKwlrbwk7bSXAmTy2HbCX-hSTNBIvbQUcspSQjl7qU6i6za0Hixhe6ztM7VPUcC_ojp-V5UE5_OWeKMhYXm4dJeTljhHPGS5vlsiCFScYo_pPf8TCMr9VZqvuglx6oiEaBL3_RcBXUr8WlnOXsNH0fItmXnkiC05Ny-CFlb1T2E3bdp5dQC8TCh5f-ovOFyJcbnWmpzNgSlaT" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Turner</a> and <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001daEBbwEsXGYpuxROZRpSlvMAw_fnZIbi8U8cjHxEHCA8JVe7pq6mysit4kAMB14ggZFTYnDT8ERQx-8gcZgFyTxsx1YuygBf90YXYm_exmC6OMmaJTinAKOiRNHSKYopyjMpjj58_ebWI2bn8ivQ0YZc0zc-kgtb7TE8V6UOjARTsoTH0VqlZIxuQLmSdbaNX2AGsiV4hdacFoxwlZv7CQJVL-qNJR-I7eF46e0Y7yHA_U4Jr7kaS1KJPqpUx1qUDhzX0POBeNhNm_N54158ZtVwkN3WnyDAKtP2NU7SeNjTSch-HKfwaUkjwWFoYjwh9-Y5-Y1vAlxLVBzI6Tyj_m3i59cFsgKlSB46J0Q3kwDNjuT1-iqrVcpvUcbhFaQ6Lk_69HCPalo8pV-fQUdhNuC1jE8bTKm0w1Uj3KypV2HCd-Uq8W68KJb-r4wVoxAEWZHe-dpgSO3_af7Ay1M0fFahWfMMzJ9nxCWFrrKCLBqNCn3jxzjax9ga5ipzHF__" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Dym</a> in the NYS Sex Offender Registry) responded to their good fortune of avoiding long prison sentences:</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">As incredible as it sounds, Turner </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001daEBbwEsXGYVJ9qr40TaHUr5759DxNCVJxiPCX59YGU1gLIwU9p-2gp4FKO4aQDLKJmQ3g9YP8CGUSlRGhWvL6r4OS9nzQrxFLcLt-XNFX8dtLdiADrAnfJ5fI-4934pMMcX2-kUPs7D_GUCwBymx0WwJZculqms0d7bPcqhFhj6bjc9veRntenPiqiOri1EvS10Ge9nu6hIdDfjni-FKKBCuw97SgOeVOIP4oeCdDNyc-MIH9euUYlsWG12qWnRkBp05wT5godJlB1id5jsdVNANkFjJdZt7fwOD4ZiO-Q6IcZy9LHrjSHaf_gOVo-1wL9bFZjqIJa9iU5Vkz1rQg2uYw1R4FSGOCxLzzaym01lLTY65Z6Hl0p7vGg8IKjeLjWh4DbXeofTzJtLFEoZxicHanZrfk0QPpYtPKfhM_PXLUYrUmIBtGqNvMD9wmgAe6Nh1w02gx67av4uzwV5DHZMMR_UnT7-KIev9nsFAFjhvCoTUeYX1iVkUYLGpZK9CtA6XE_osm3Csp0Iickm8g==" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">BLAMED HIS VICTIM</a><span style="color: black;"> for the abuse according to remarks by Rockland County Supreme Court Judge William Kelly. And this happened <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>while the eyes of the media and the criminal justice system were on him</b></span>!! Can you imagine the contempt for the law Turner has now that the attention is off him??</span></div>
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My dear friends, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>your children are not safe and will never be safe</b></span> as long as these miscarriages of justice continue and as long as these monsters who ravage our innocent children are permitted to walk our streets without fear of prosecution and real jail time.</div>
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Those of us who work with and do our best to comfort the abuse victims in our community cannot reverse this trend by ourselves. </div>
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Sorry to be blunt, but if you want your kids to be able to walk the streets without being abducted and attend shul without being molested, you will need to stand up and be heard.</div>
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If you want positive change to occur, take the time to write a respectful email to the DA's office at <a href="mailto:info@rocklandcountyda.com" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;">info@rocklandcountyda.com</a>, to Steve Lieberman who covers the local beat for The Journal News at <a href="mailto:slieberm@lohud.com" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;">slieberm@lohud.com</a>, and file a <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001daEBbwEsXGbBeNsmKl5CakR5jlQdZlco_1a27FsOzdVBySB_gvhtg2-Nan-regTkQOwS7M6fb7L-Gha8PMNa0D4Fd4Z8I3xVWmY5PIopMnNQVARJYrStRcP8pnBIssOPbfHBxlqn6gHmj9hyVIOIEXIW1vmyHCwIOy2tPMvU3n9N3oobmPWaatv3vIeNpaZoOWIrU3yowESZirIDolmlRIeSqYuhhIcUtgsy61qZuDw9z7u7lElBQO-A23_BSlrg3-8WoN2ky-2EhCBLhU-96R41ctOOe0YX4duAGj0cENUhNhEadDFZFW8wnzKunS92B9XuK1boKfuhMWOUMAG8VKdE76P-xcE18Lha-eCH1qg4o2oS1UwzI99-xV3KD41LR_zwxaaLsqw_r0EYh4M71OrDi7Zm7x3eXXxqvsb3Eyp5_j2JbsecWJMVFh0NxfKYqzh2zpYz8tg=" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Citizen Service Request</a> with The Ramapo Police. </div>
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Respectfully convey your wishes that those who destroy the lives of our children should be arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to the fullest extent of the law. From the many conversations I have had with law enforcement officials locally and nationally, many or most of them are under the impression that we want to "handle these matters internally." And we have all painfully seen how effective that has been.</div>
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Law enforcement officials are human beings just like the rest of us. They get frustrated beyond words when they arrest predators who richly deserve long prison sentences and then watch as political pressure is applied and their dedicated efforts are washed away. After this happens a few times, they just throw up their hands.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">As a high-ranking police officer once told me years ago, </span><span style="color: blue;">we can't care more about your kids than you do."</span></div>
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My dear friends, let's start caring more about the kids and less about the monsters who ruin their lives.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong><a class="asset-img-link" href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e2019aff1706df970d-popup" style="color: #636973; float: right;"><img alt="Charles Hynes finger to mouth" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b71f69e2019aff1706df970d" src="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e2019aff1706df970d-150wi" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 150px;" title="Charles Hynes finger to mouth" /></a>Last year, Charles J. Hynes told media that the prevalent harassment, shunning and extortion suffered by haredi child sex abuse victims by haredim and by haredi rabbis was "worse than the Mafia." Now Hynes has taken back that remark in his never-ending grovelling for haredi bloc votes.</strong></span></div>
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Brooklyn D.A. Charles J. Hynes went to visit haredi rabbinic leaders again this week in search of their followers' bloc votes. In fact, some of the rabbis he visited – the Munkatcher Rebbe for example – are top supporters of Rabbi Boruch Lebovits, a well-known child sex abuser who Hynes is supposed to retry</div>
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In the process of asking for these rabbis' followers' bloc votes, Hynes privately and publicly walked back his most famous comment on these very same haredi rabbis' harassment of victims of child sex abuse. Hynes told media that the harassment, shunning and extortion suffered by haredi child sex abuse victims by haredim and by haredi rabbis was "worse than the Mafia."</div>
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Now, the ethically challenged, desperate and arguably corrupt D.A., who is on the edge of being – finally – voted out of office says that remark was "insensitive" and "a wrong thing to say."</div>
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Hynes did not criticize the shunning, harassment and extortion of child sex abuse victims and their families and supporters or do anything whatsoever to show sympathy for or empathy with those victims – the very victims he is sworn to protect.</div>
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Yeshiva World <a href="http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/183522/Brooklyn-DA---Hynes-Receives-Go-Ahead-Blessings-In-Visit-To-Community-Rabbis.html" style="color: #636973;" target="_blank">reports</a>:</div>
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…Among the Rabbonim District Attorney Hynes visited were: The Satmar Rebbe; The Munkatche Rebbe; R’ Berish Meizels, the Satmar Ruv in Boro Park; R’ Yankel Miller, the Eizenstate Ruv; R’ Mechel Steinmets, the Skvere Dayan and the leadership of the Belz Kehilla in Borough Park. Accompanying Mr. Hynes was his top supporter in the Orthodox Jewish community Councilman David G. Greenfield and Ben Barber.<br /><br />District Attorney Hynes was warmly welcomed and greatly lauded for keeping Brooklyn safe and for fairly treating the community, in his years as District Attorney. According to sources who have spoken to YWN, Mr. Hynes walked away with blessings and an expression of support of his candidacy from every single Rov he visited.…<br /><br />In all of his meetings in the community, Mr. Hynes was warmly greeted, with some of the rabbis expressing their great concern about who his opponent is affiliated and some of the negative comments his opponent has made about the Orthodox Jewish community. “At least with you, while we disagree on some issues, we always know that you have an open door and a willingness to listen to us,” one of the Rabbonim told Mr. Hynes.<br /><br />As for the ‘mafia’ comment, while the issue was not raised during his meeting with the Satmar Rebbe, Mr. Hynes did, in fact, apologize publicly for his previous comment in which he called some in the Orthodox Jewish community – ‘Mafia’.<br /><br />“That was not only a wrong thing to say, an unfortunate thing to say, it was an insensitive thing to say,” Mr. Hynes admitted in an interview with Hamodia. “Now, ordinarily, I’m pretty sensitive. And what I said was insensitive, and I’ve apologized. I had a group of my friends in Williamsburg recently and I apologized to them. And I apologize to your readership. I should not have said that.”</div>
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<b><span style="color: #636973;">Hikind: DAVID Greenfield Should Apologize For "Spreading Disgusting Lies" About D.A.'s Challenger Ken Thompson </span><span style="color: red;"> BY FAILED MESSIAH.COM</span></b></h3>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a class="asset-img-link" href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e201901eb64cbc970b-popup" style="color: #636973; float: right;"><img alt="Dov Hikind (hands) with Ken Thompson (laughing) Borough Park 8-2013" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b71f69e201901eb64cbc970b" src="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b71f69e201901eb64cbc970b-150wi" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 150px;" title="Dov Hikind (hands) with Ken Thompson (laughing) Borough Park 8-2013" /></a>Haredi New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind lashes out at haredi city councilman David Greenfield for telling "disgusting lies" about former federal prosecutor Ken Thompson, who is challenging scandal-plagued incumbent Charles Hynes is the race for <nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2013/08/hikind-greenfield-should-apologize-for-spreading-disgusting-lies-about-das-challenger-678.html#" id="FALINK_1_0_0" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; display: inline !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">Brooklyn</a></nobr> district <nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2013/08/hikind-greenfield-should-apologize-for-spreading-disgusting-lies-about-das-challenger-678.html#" id="FALINK_2_0_1" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(28, 125, 255) !important; display: inline !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important;">attorney</a></nobr>.</span> Hikind endorsed Thompson last week, prompting Greenfield – who hates Hikind – to endorse Hynes earlier this week. But Greenfield's endorsement is significantly based on lies.</strong></div>
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I'm not a big Hikind fan, but on a scale of bad to worse, David Greenfield is far worse than Hikind. His endorsement of Hynes (<a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2013/08/greenfield-endorses-hynes-claims-hynes-doesnt-pander-to-anyone-567.html" style="color: #636973;" target="_blank">which you can see here</a>) was largely based on outright lies, <a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2013/08/greenfield-endorses-hynes-claims-hynes-doesnt-pander-to-anyone-567.html" style="color: #636973;" target="_blank">as I pointed out when he made it</a>.</div>
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"Councilman Greenfield ought to apologize for spreading disgusting lies about <a href="http://www.kenthompson4da.com/about-ken-thompson.html" style="color: #636973;" target="_blank">Ken Thompson</a> in the Orthodox Jewish community. Unlike D.A. Hynes, who has said that Orthodox Jews are "insular" and worse than the Mafia, Ken has repeatedly stated that he will restore confidence, and fight for safety and justice for every community in Brooklyn. With such an indefensible record of prosecuting inconsistently depending on which way the political wind blows and flip-flopping before an election, it's no surprise that Mr. Hynes and his defenders have resorted to unconscionable gutter politics to distract voters from the truth. Baseless slandering from a desperate campaign has no place in Brooklyn."</div>
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</td><td class="vTop" style="vertical-align: top;"><span itemprop="description"><span class="fsl"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">After today's shocking revelations that DA Hynes has been unjustly attempting to prosecute Sam Kellner, a man who sought justice for victims of abuse by the hands of Boruch Leibvotiz, a notorious predator who has harmed many children in the ultra orthodox community, we must stand up and protest DA Hynes' actions and demand that the unfounded charges against Sam Kellner be dropped immediately. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;">As advocates for victims of sexual abuse, these revelations are disturbing for anyone who cares about the welfare </span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">of children and victims of sexual abuse. Sam Kellner is a man who sought justice for his own son despite an entire community that went against him, causing him to loose his home and his job only because he sought justice.<br /><br />We have to standup to the mafia like DA of Brooklyn that puts community interests first rather than justice and demand that charges against Sam Kellner be dropped and that a serious investigation be launched into this harrowing and shocking revelation of abuse of power by the very people who are supposed to protect us.<br /><br />Join us this Thursday outside the DA's office as we stand for unequivocal justice for all people while protecting the rights of those who care about the well being of our future generations. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/nyregion/prosecution-backtracks-in-sex-abuse-fraud-case.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>2013/07/09/nyregion/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>prosecution-backtracks-in-s<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>ex-abuse-fraud-case.html?_<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>r=1</a><span style="font-size: x-small;">&</span></span></span></b></span></span></td></tr>
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