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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

United Synagogue Youth

Illustrative: A young woman sits alone (torwai; iStock by Getty Images)
March 10, 2023, 4:52 am
Probe into Conservative Jewish youth group finds ‘hypersexualized culture’
Inquiry following ToI exposé on decades-long abuse scandal identifies 41 alleged incidents of sexual misconduct by adults at USY, but concludes issues not systemic
By Jacob Magid and JTA
The Solomon Schechter Long Island in Williston Park, New York is grappling with an unfolding scandal being investigated by ToI (Courtesy SSLI Facebook page)
November 8, 2022, 10:38 pm
Jewish school head to leave after exposé showed scandal-hit staffer secretly kept on
2 months after ToI report on continued employment of man who ostensibly resigned in abuse scandal’s fallout, Schechter Long Island tells parents Scott Sokol has taken job elsewhere
By Jacob Magid
The Schechter School of Long Island's building in Williston Park, New York. (Schechter LI/Facebook)
September 7, 2022, 12:34 am
New York Jewish school secretly kept on staffer who ‘resigned’ over abuse scandal
Schechter principal, deputy directed creation of a corporation to keep paying student life director Mike Hirsch, who had also been written up for inappropriately touching students
By Jacob Magid
Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) await a flight to Kabul Afghanistan, at Al Udeied Air Base, Qatar Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021 (1st Lt. Mark Andries/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)
August 19, 2021, 2:05 pm
Daily Briefing August 19 – How the Taliban takeover affects US ally Israel
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman looks at the Afghan situation and a diplomatic crisis with Poland; US correspondent Jacob Magid describes developments in a USY sexual abuse report
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo (iStock)
August 18, 2021, 5:30 pm
More victims, lawsuits and mounting anger at USY after ToI report alleging abuse
Conservative movement vows probe, suspends 2 staffers, as more alleged victims of longtime official surface; Jordan Soffer, 1st to speak out, says USY, USCJ haven’t contacted him
By Jacob Magid
Jordan Soffer. (Courtesy)
August 12, 2021, 3:39 pm
Eye on statute of limitations, alleged victim of US youth group leader speaks up
Rabbi Jordan Soffer demands USY, the Conservative movement’s youth branch, explain why it turned blind eye to abuser for years, later allowed his employment as a synagogue director
By Jacob Magid
Students protest for increased school safety after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, on February 14. (Zoe Terner/NFTY)
March 5, 2018, 11:37 am
Jewish students march for their lives to advance stricter gun control laws
A broad coalition of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox synagogue youth groups join a nationwide movement of young people demanding an end to mass shootings
By Cathryn J. Prince
Sawyer Goldsmith is the religion/education vice president for the international board of USY (Courtesy of USY)
February 7, 2018, 4:13 am
First openly transgender teen elected to board of Conservative youth group
Sawyer Goldsmith hopes his new appointment at United Synagogue Youth will show other young LGBTQ members that they belong
By Josefin Dolsten
Maya Wasserman
December 24, 2017, 4:04 pm
Maya Wasserman
The USY dating scandal that isn’t
My Jewish youth group is too busy turning teens into leaders to play hookup games
Illustrative photo (via iStock)
December 19, 2017, 2:58 pm
Conservative Jewry has #MeToo moment as decades-old sexual abuse surfaces
After an internal investigation, the movement cuts ties with its longtime youth head. But a leading child advocate says it shouldn’t take one person’s courage to change a system
By Cathryn J. Prince
Jules Gutin (Screen capture: YouTube)
December 18, 2017, 11:40 pm
Conservative youth group cuts ties with ex-head accused of sexual misconduct
Jules Gutin denies allegations, which the CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism says ‘were wide ranging and all inappropriate’
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Some 800 teens attended the annual United Synagogue Youth international conference in 2014 in Atlanta. (courtesy)
November 28, 2017, 3:03 am
US Conservative movement launches hotline for reporting sexual impropriety
Move comes in response to allegation by former member of its youth movement that he was molested by a senior staff member in the 1980s
By Josefin Dolsten
Friends and family attend a ceremony in memory of Ezra Schwartz at Ben Gurion international airport on Saturday night, November 21, 2015 (Moti Karelitz/ZAKA TEL AVIV)
November 22, 2015, 2:08 am
Hundreds turn out to pay last tribute to slain US teen
Ezra Schwartz, killed in a terror attack on Thursday, flown to Boston for his funeral; ‘he had a wonderful life,’ father says
By ToI Staff
Opening session of the 2014 United Synagogue Youth international convention in Atlanta, Sunday December 21, 2014. (Ethan Weg)
December 25, 2014, 1:47 am
Jewish world erupts as USY gives interdating a kinder spin
Acknowledging and welcoming the children of intermarriage is not the same thing as condoning it, say Conservative Jewish leaders
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Recent high school graduate Joe Goldberg, of St. Louis, promotes community service in the Conservative movement. (Courtesy Joe Goldberg/via JTA)
June 29, 2014, 1:02 am
Jewish teen finds self while helping the homeless
Joe Goldberg encourages Conservative Jewish teens to do community service and reach 54,000 hours by October
By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan
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