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PAGE 20 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 13, 1985
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Park resident who represents the
district, said Monday that he was
“95 percent sure” that anti-Semitism
motivated at least the first attack
because it coincided with the
Kristallnacht anniversary. Hikind
said he was “convinced that Dworkin
was not responsible for the first
attack.”
But New York City Councilman
Noach Dear, who also represents
the district, told the JTA he believes
Dworkin was responsible but that
he could not have acted alone
given the wide area over which the
windows were smashed and the
size and weight of the rocks.
Dear said he asked police to
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continue the investigation and to
continue their tight surveillance in
the neighborhoods lest would-be
vandals take Dworkin’s arrest as a
signal that it is now safe to commit
similar acts.
According to Dear, Dworkin
was motivated by a personal vendetta
with several Israelis and Hasidic
Jews and took revenge on the
entire community. He said police,
acting on a tip, questioned two
youths in their early 20s. The latter,
he said, led them to Dworkin.
The New York City Council and
the Jewish Community Relations
Council posted rewards totaling
$15,000 last month for information
leadingto the arrest and conviction
of the perpetrator. Monday, Peggy
Tishman, president of the JCRC,
had high praise for the round-the-
clock police efforts during the past
four weeks, leading to Dworkin’s
arrest. “We are thankful that we
seem to have a resolution in this
—Sofaer—
matter,” Tishman said.
Malcolm Hoenlein, executive
director of the JCRC, praised police
commissioner Benjamin Ward and
police chief Robert Johnson Jr. for
their“major committment in detec
tives, uniformed and anti-crime
officers in this case.” He also praised
Capt. Bromberg who was in charge
of the investigation and the "excep
tional cooperation” between the
detectives of Brooklyn South and
Bromberg’s bias unit.
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for the District of Columbia, who
is prosecuting the case of Pollard
and his wife, Anne Henderson-
Pollard; and a representative of the
FBI who has not been named.
The statement announcing the
group’s departure, which was
Wednesday, Dec. 11, appeared to
be a compromise on language that
reportedly was worked out between
former Israeli ambassador to the
United States, Moshe Arens and
Schultz on Arens’ return trip to
Washington Dec. 5 after he had
met with Schultz Nov. 22 during
Ahrens’ stay here to address a rally
for Israeli Bonds.
State and Justice Department
officials have been saying they wanted
to “question” three Israeli officials
allegedly connected with the Pollard
case while Israelis were saying the
U.S. effort would be “interviewing”
or “conversing” with those officials
since the meeting would take place
on Israeli soil. It would be unseemly
for Israel to allow its officials to be
“questioned” in Israel, officials said.
Following is the text of the State
Department’s announcement:
The governments of the United
States and Israel have agreed to
continue discussions concerning the
Pollard case and related activities
in the United States which were
inconsistent with official Israeli
policy.
“A team of U.S. officials will
arrive in Israel Wednesday, Dec.
11, to determine the facts through
discussions and other forms of
cooperation. The governments of
both nations are pleased to be
tackling this difficult problem in a
constructive manner consistent with
their close and friendly ties.”
Orthodox community takes aim
at problem of child sex abuse
NEW YORK—A 10-year-old
Orthodox girl is sexually assaulted
in the bathroom of a local recreational
center. She described her attacker
as someone looking like the father
of one of the other kids in her
group. The local police precinct
showed her mug shots of over 100
men who fit this description, who
were suspects in sexual criminal
attacks.
A I6-year-old Orthodox youth
sexually accosted a 10-year-old boy.
The 10-year-old told his teacher
what happened, but his teacher
said that this was “impossible.”
A young boy was sexually molested
every week for a year. The boy,
complaining of rectal itching and
pain, embarassed and quite upset,
finally told his parents that a neighbor
did this to him and threatened him
that he must remain quiet. A local
rabbi told the parents not to press
charges against another Jew.
These and several other cases, as
well as important measures to
prevent child sexual abuse, and the
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halachic implications to parents,
doctors and the Jewish community,
were discussed at the annual conven
tion of the Association of Orthodox
Jewish Scientists (AOJS).
Accordingto Dr. Marcy Schaffer,
clinical psychologist who moderated
the program, the purpose was to
enlighten both professionals and
laymen to the extent of child sexual
abuse in the Orthodox community.
“Although we are not the targeted
community with these problems,
we want to counter the impression
that child sexual abuse doesn’t
exist in the Orthodox community,”
remarked Rabbi Josef Grunblatt
of the Queens Jewish Center, who
discussed the halachic obligations
of the Orthodox community vis-a-
vis sex abuse.
Dr. Susan Schulman, a pediatrician
whose patient load includes a large
number of ultra-Orthodox Hassidic
youngsters, stated that Hassidic
children generally have no concept
of their anatomy. Sexuality is not
discussed. “When accosted sexually,
they don’t have the vocabulary to
discuss what happened to them.
They can’t describe it,” she said.
Dr. Neal L.evy clinical director
Unibed \Afay
of Ohel Children’s Home and Family
Services, discussed how children
are more easily prone to sexual
molestation when the molester is
an authoritative figure, such as a
teacher. “Children naturally have
respect for authority, especially when
an authoritative figure threatens
them,” Levy said. He outlined various
tactics used to lure children into
situations of sexual abuse, such as
over-affection and love, or bribery
through candy and gifts. Parents
should be wary of adults who want
to be alone with their child, or who
give their child gifts or money.
Regarding the halachic obligations
of the Jewish community toward
Jewish sexual abusers, Grunblatt
stated that the Beth Din (Jewish
court) of today can institute laws
to counter dangers to society, and
to preserve the “Shalom Hamedinah,”
peacefulness of the society. He
reviewed the different halachic
opinions concerning whether one
should report a Jewish criminal to
the police. “There are times when
you may do him more harm by
sending him to jail, because of
what goes on in jails today,” remarked
Grunblatt. “We must carefully
analyze every case, and decide when
rehabilitative therapy is better than
jail,” he said.
A tape of the program can be
purchased for $8 from the Association
of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, 1373
Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn,
N.Y. 11230; telephone (718) 338-8592.
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