Please just go away!
C-PTSD: I can’t stand you! Get far away from my life and just leave me alone! Stop it with your reminders, I don’t appreciate reliving my past, there is never a good time or place for them so just bug...
View ArticlePurim Flashbacks
I was once again sitting on that green couch in my therapists room. That infamous couch which I’ve become both friends and enemies with. It was on that couch that I’ve made so many victories on. The...
View ArticleIf only…
If only the walls of my room would have a voice, they would speak of the amount of tears I’ve shed behind closed doors. If only the voicemail on my phone would say the truth, it would say that I don’t...
View ArticleUnderstanding
By Yisroael Ben Simcha Understanding all the tapestry. Woven cloths that make me sing. I love the tapestry of trees. Woven, yet people see what I cannot Children learn like me. Yet I cannot see their...
View Article“I don’t believe you”
Over the next few pages are the story of a brave young man who found the strength to speak out against abuse. Hopefully, his experience will shed some light on what’s happening in the dark parts of...
View ArticleWhy am I ashamed?
“Tell me why you feel ashamed”, you asked. “Please help me understand. You were just an innocent child, And you suffered at his hand.” “Why are you so scared to talk? Why are the words so hard to...
View ArticleAs I hold my baby son
By a survivor It’s been a long and difficult day for me. I came home and sat on my couch holding my beautiful baby in my arms, watching him stare into my eyes. His gaze was penetrating deep into me....
View ArticleMe against the storm
Sailing down the river in my beautiful custom boat, filled with every luxurious upgrade that one can dream of. As I’m smoothly traveling along the magnificently beautiful ocean, seeing in the far...
View ArticleDear Rabbi, you could have stopped my abuse!
Dear Rabbi, I write to you with a mixture of extreme pain, anguish and anger. Where were you? What were you thinking? Where was your intuition? I knew you realized something was amiss because you...
View ArticleSurvivor to abuser: I wish you would’ve known, seen and cared
I wish you would’ve known. I wish you would’ve seen. I wish you would’ve cared. I wish you would’ve known the years of pain that you will cause me. The sleepless nights and horrible nightmares. The...
View ArticleBrooklyn Ob/Gyn arrested by FBI after sex with 15-year-old boy
Dr. Aaron Weinreb, a gynecologist at NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn, was arrested on October 29 and charged in court the following day after he solicited sex from a minor through text message....
View ArticleJCW event at the perfect moment
Whenever we offer educational events, we expect lots of questions from parents and teachers in the room. But as anyone who has ever run a child safety event can tell you, it’s not just questions about...
View ArticleEverywhere I turn I see people just like the ones who hurt me so badly
By a survivor Recovery from abuse is a long and bumpy process. I have gone through so much and now I am finally starting to feel like a person again. I can walk on the street and feel like I belong in...
View ArticleWALL OF SHAME ADDITION – Tzvi Hirsh Spielman
Tzvi Hirsh Spielman Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY After confirming the results of a lengthy investigation, JCW hereby warns the community that Tzvi Hirsh Spielman is alleged to have molested multiple...
View ArticleToday I just cry
I am sitting here a shell of a person, bleeding from wounds that I thought were long healed. For so long I thought that I was moving forward but in a family of incest and dysfunction, somehow, I keep...
View ArticleBeautiful Yom Kippur story for survivors
There was once a family, not long ago, that had the most wonderful parents and seven beautiful children. Life for both the children and the parents was that of a dream family. Suddenly, one Shabbos...
View ArticleThe death of a sexual abuse victim
Dear readers, Please sit back and close your eyes while I walk you through my life. The “life of a sexual abuse victim”. I say “life” only because I’m physically alive but in truth, a more accurate...
View ArticleLawsuit: Rabbi who abused is now principal in Lakewood
According to the New York Post, Rabbi Joel Falk is named by a former Yeshiva Torah Temimah student in a new lawsuit, one of the first against a rabbi under New York’s Child Victims Act. Baruch...
View ArticleWeiss Victim: He identified me as his prey
Victim Impact Statement Menachem M. Weiss sentencing, September 9, 2019 I never thought this day would come. 20 years ago, my parents entrusted me to the home and expertise of the man then known as...
View ArticleRabbi Menachem (Mendy) Weiss pleads guilty to 1999 sexual abuse
Today, Menachem (Mendy) Weiss of Los Angeles pled guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a minor in New Jersey with the prosecution recommending a six-year prison sentence and that Weiss be registered...
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