NEW YORK (NY)
The New York Jewish Week
March 6, 2018
By Asher Lovy
A response to Rabbi Broyde’s call for “nuance and complexity” in dealing with allegations.
While I’m not entirely sure what prompted Rabbi Michael Broyde to write the article he published in the Jewish Week last Tuesday offering six policy suggestions to address sexual abuse, there were a few things that struck me as odd about it. First, it coincided with the legislative day at the state capitol of the New York Coalition to Pass the Child Victims Act. That, coupled with the points he makes later in the article about the irrelevance of “ancient” cases, was enough to give me pause. But as I read through the article, it seemed increasingly like a policy statement written by an institution trying to hedge its bets on sexual abuse.
I’d like to offer some commentary and rebuttal to his six points.
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