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July 24, 2000. The New York Times recently covered the furor provoked by The Jewish Week's June 23 story "Stolen Innocence," extensively documenting accusations of emotional, sexual, and physical abuse of teenage students by a New Jersey rabbi, and detailed charges that his superiors in the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations had covered up for decades.
For this, the editor and newspaper were villified for damaging their community, the Orthodox Union, and Judaism itself. The space for the community journalist between loyalty, community, and complicity is painfully narrow.