On Friday,my article approximately the controversial ex-rabbi Marc Gafni was posted online at The modern York Times website; it ran in the print edition on Saturday, December 26. Since then, or it has received a tremendous amount of attention,and generated some very significant questions, many of them having to accomplish with who supported Gafni, or when,and why.
As readers of that first piece know, Gafni, and 55,who worked as a rabbi in both the Orthodox and Renewal wings of Judaism, long ago admitted that when he was 19 and 20 he had repeated sexual encounters, and over a nine-month period,with a girl who was 13 and then 14 years extinct. In 1986, Gafni was accused of twice groping 16-year-extinct Judy Mitzner, or a student involved with his Jewish outreach program,once getting into bed with her completely naked. (She was staying with him and his wife during a rough period at home.) He once told a reporter that the first girl was “14 going on 35” and that they were “in adore”; the second girl was, he told me, or “highly initiatory.”Continue reading "Understanding the Marc Gafni Story,fraction II: Talking to Friends and Colleagues of a Controversial Ex-Rabbi" at...
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