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The old Stock Exchange Building, home of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on May 3, 2018. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT via AP)
June 12, 2018, 4:10 pm
Sweden charges man at center of Nobel Prize sex scandal
Case of Jean-Claude Arnault, who denies two counts of rape in 2011, divided Academy members and sparked resignation of at least six, including his wife
By JAN M. OLSEN
Taam China restaurant in Brookline Massachusetts. (Screen capture: Google Maps)
June 11, 2018, 9:10 pm
Boston-area kosher restaurant owner accused of peeping on customers
Tze Chung, of Brookline's Taam China restaurant, was also charged last month with rape of 12-year-old girl
By JTA
Police officers block a road near Wiesbaden, Germany, June 7, 2018. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
June 7, 2018, 5:53 pm
Community ‘shocked, aghast’ after German-Jewish teen found raped, murdered
Body of Susanna F. found near Wiesbaden after two weeks; Iraqi refugee suspect is thought to have fled to Erbil, Turkish suspect arrested
By Raphael Ahren and AP
Harvey Weinstein arrives in court in New York, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
June 5, 2018, 6:44 pm
Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape, sex charges
Lawyer calls rape charge 'absurd,' saying accuser continued decade-long relationship with film mogul after alleged 2013 attack
By Tom Hays
Harvey Weinstein, center, leaves with his lawyer Benjamin Brafman, right, after posting bail at Manhattan's Criminal Court, Friday, May 25, 2018, in New York (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
June 4, 2018, 7:00 am
Lawyer fights for Harvey Weinstein, in court and out
Saving unpopular clients in impossible situations is something of a specialty for Orthodox Jewish attorney Ben Brafman
By Tom Hays and Jennifer Peltz
In this May 25, 2018 file photo, Harvey Weinstein, center, listens during a court proceeding in New York during his arraignment on rape and other charges. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
June 1, 2018, 10:46 pm
New rape allegation filed against Harvey Weinstein
Lawsuit filed in New York by three women, including one who says producer assaulted her at a Manhattan hotel in 2011
By AP
Harvey Weinstein appears at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday, May 25, 2018. (Jefferson Siegel-Pool via Getty Images/AFP)
May 31, 2018, 1:07 am
Harvey Weinstein indicted in New York on rape charges
Producer facing prosecution on criminal sex act claims involving two women; lawyer calls allegations 'absurd'
By AP
In this May 25, 2018 photo, Harvey Weinstein listens during a court proceeding in New York. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
May 30, 2018, 9:47 pm
Weinstein won’t testify before grand jury in rape case
Lawyers for Hollywood mogul say he didn't have time to prepare, and 'unfair political pressure' makes indictment inevitable
By Jennifer Peltz
Harvey Weinstein appears at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday, May 25, 2018. (Jefferson Siegel-Pool via Getty Images/AFP)
May 26, 2018, 4:56 am
Wealthy celebrities like Weinstein better-armed to face sex charges
Disgraced movie producer released after posting $1 million bail following arrest for rape and sex crimes, will be represented by top defense lawyer
By Sebastian Blanc
Ari Goldstein, the former president of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at Temple University. (screen capture: YouTube/CBS Philly)
May 19, 2018, 9:56 am
Ex-president of suspended Jewish frat charged with attempted rape
Ari Goldstein indicted on 8 charges, held on $2 million bail, as part of wider investigation into sexual assaults at the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house
By CLAUDIA LAUER
Undated image of Jacob Daskal, the president of the Shomrim Brooklyn South Safety Patrol. (screen capture: New York Daily News)
May 11, 2018, 10:46 pm
Head of Brooklyn Jewish patrol charged with raping 16-year-old girl
Jacob Daskal, founder of private neighborhood watch organization Shomrim, indicted for allegedly having sexual relationship with teen last year
By JTA and TOI staff
Producer Harvey Weinstein in New York, November 23, 2011 (AP Photo/John Carucci, File)
May 2, 2018, 3:14 pm
Netflix producer accuses Weinstein of raping, assaulting her over 5-year period
Alexandra Canosa says Hollywood mogul persistently threatened to end her career if she refused his demands or publicized them
By AFP
Aderet (L) and Shiran Ambash, two of the wives of cult leader Daniel Ambash who in 2013 was convicted of raping and abusing his wives and children. (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 16, 2018, 10:32 am
Wives of jailed polygamous cult leader demand conjugal visits
Four of the six spouses of Daniel Ambash, convicted of routine sadistic abuse and sexual assault of his family members, want to meet with him and have more of his children
By Michael Bachner
Chessy Prout, the author of 'I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice and Hope,' talks during an interview, March 6, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
April 15, 2018, 4:24 pm
A high schooler just wrote the book on surviving campus sexual assault
Despite the odds stacked against rape survivors, Chessy Prout, with journalist Jenn Abelson, shares the story of her pursuit of justice as she advocates for school accountability
By Cathryn J. Prince
Clockwise from upper right: 'The Ballad of Marie Sanders, The Jew’s Whore,' by Nancy Spero; Half-Scale Study for Double Jeopardy from Holocaust Project—Studies/Ancillaries, by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman; 'Women in Birkenau Camp,' by Halina Olomucki, drawn secretly while imprisoned in 1945. (Courtesy Ronald Feldman Gallery)
April 13, 2018, 12:46 am
Groundbreaking exhibition depicts sexual violence against women in the Holocaust
Opening April 12, a group show sees artists shine light on a taboo facet of Holocaust history and draw attention to continuing sex crime in contemporary war zones
By Cathryn J. Prince
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