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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
One of numerous photographs taken following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. Here, a Jewish family stands outside of their ransacked home (public domain)
April 9, 2018, 5:05 am
How a small pogrom in Russia changed the course of history
Until the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 was the archetype for anti-Jewish persecution, according to a new book about the massacre's long afterlife
By Matt Lebovic
Harvey Weinstein speaking at National Geographic’s Further Front Event at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, April 19, 2017. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for National Geographic)
March 21, 2018, 7:57 pm
Weinstein company releases employees from nondisclosure agreements
In bankruptcy filing, production firm revokes limits on anyone 'who suffered or witnessed any form of sexual misconduct' by Hollywood mogul
By JTA
Illustrative image of young criminal in handcuffs. (YakobchukOlena/iStock, by Getty Images)
March 21, 2018, 4:39 pm
IDF soldier who raped female comrade gets 5.5 years in jail
Jaffa Military Court also orders serviceman to compensate his victim, whom he sexually assaulted in her Tel Aviv home
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: A 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by the Islamic State group and forcibly married to a militant in Syria sits on the floor of a one-room house she now shares with her family after escaping, October 8, 2014. (AP/Dalton Bennett, File)
March 10, 2018, 5:19 am
UN: Some rape victims of Islamic State are ‘like living corpses’
Envoy for world body decries 'a gross lack' of support for Iraqi women and girls raped and sold into slavery by jihadists
By Edith M. Lederer
Illustrative: Medical personnel at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, on March 2, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 4, 2018, 11:11 pm
Man gets 3 years for posing as a doctor and raping postnatal woman
State mulls appeal in case of East Jerusalem resident who assaulted women in Shaare Tzedek maternity ward
By Tamar Pileggi
David Mamet addresses reporters during the HBO Winter TCA Press Tour in Pasadena, California, January 4, 2013 (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
February 25, 2018, 5:30 am
David Mamet says he wrote a play about Harvey Weinstein
Society seems to be 'switching modes,' Pulitzer-winning playwright says, and people 'start tearing each other to bits'
By TOI staff
Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg is brought for a court hearing at the Kiryat Shmona Magistrates Court on July 2, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
February 6, 2018, 6:45 pm
Safed rabbi sentenced to 7.5 years in jail for sexual assault
Ezra Sheinberg, ex-yeshiva head, confessed to using his position as spiritual leader to take advantage of 8 women
By Raoul Wootliff
In this file photo taken on March 26, 2016 Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan takes part in a conference on the theme "Live together" in Bordeaux. (AFP PHOTO / MEHDI FEDOUACH)
February 3, 2018, 1:41 am
Prominent Islamic scholar charged with rape in France
Women who testified anonymously against Tariq Ramadan during investigation may now also file rape complaints in wake of indictment
By Benjamin Legendre
Amy Schumer speaking about her film 'Trainwreck' at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival in New York, April 19, 2015. (JTA/Robin Marchant/Getty Images)
February 2, 2018, 5:39 pm
Amy Schumer says first sexual experience was ‘flat-out rape’
Comedian addresses #MeToo movement, accusations against friend Aziz Ansari. 'I don’t think anyone wants to see his career ruined'
By TOI staff
Tariq Ramadan, pictured at a 2016 conference in Bordeaux. (AFP PHOTO / MEHDI FEDOUACH)
February 1, 2018, 1:56 pm
Popular Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan still in custody in Paris over rape claims
Academic is most prominent figure arrested in France in wake of #MeToo; denies accusations by 2 women of hotel room assaults
By AFP
Yonatan Heilo arrives a the Supreme Court to hear the decision on his appeal on May 31, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 17, 2018, 3:45 pm
Man who killed his rapist denied early release
Parole board fully accepts state prosecution's arguments, says Yonatan Heilo can file another request in six months
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of an Israel Police vehicle, August 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
January 14, 2018, 8:37 am
Four rapes reported in Tel Aviv in 24 hours
Three women and one man tell police they were assaulted in separate incidents; suspects arrested in all but one case
By Stuart Winer
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