Last week, Rabbi Mordechai Shain of Lubavitch on The Palisades, hosted a special one-time lecture organized by Jewish.TV entitled Boundaries Basics: Talking to Children About Personal Safety.
Full of practical tips for parents, the lecture was given by renowned Jewish educator, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, recipient of the 2008 Covenant Award for Exceptional Jewish Educators and founder and dean of Yeshiva Darchei Noam of Monsey. An authority on raising children in these troubled times, he is the founder and director of The Center for Jewish Family Life/Project YES, and has just produced the soon to be released safety and abuse prevention picture book for young children entitled Let’s Stay Safe.
“Research shows that these discussions with our children are best had at a moderately anxious moment,” said Horowitz to the crowd of CGI day camp parents at Lubavitch of the Palisades as he gave numerous powerful illustrations of simple and effective techniques for teaching children about how to protect their personal boundaries.
Lubavitch of the Palisades Executive Director, Rabbi Mordechai Shain, invited his friend, Tenafly Chief of Police, Michael P. Bruno, to follow Rabbi Horowitz’s talk with his own safety message to parents. Rabbi Horowitz and the chief then fielded a Q&A session together. Chief Bruno corroborated many of the points made by Horowitz by drawing from his experience of 26 years in law enforcement. Throughout the Q&A session, Rabbi Horowitz and Chief Bruno supported each others points on several important ideas such as the need for parents to monitor their children’s use of technology.
Part 2, Q & A session:
Thank you for sharing.
yes, there are treatments that lower and eliminate a man’s desire (called chemical castration [which is not permanent]) and some rabonim allow it in cases where people are hurting or potentially will hurt others. There’s more about this topic at http://www.guardyoureyes.org.
Certainly, we haven’t lost our ‘common sense,’ the protection of somebody/something is in proportion to the love and concern we have for it.
If we TRULY love children we’ll institute the death penalty for pedophiles.
Simple, no?
This is the only way we can have powerful protection.
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is the urge to molest children common? how many with that urge keep it in check forever? how many with the urge end up acting on their urge? is there any known treatment to cure this urge? or at least to modify it down to a level where it does not threaten to become an action? if these urges are as dominating as other addictions, can the addict seek effective treatment?? if treatment doesnt exist? why wait till the addict strikes his first victim? why not lock them up preemptively? since the main objective is not punitive but rather to… Read more »
Thank you for posting this!! it is so important!!! such valuable info!!
This is good stuff. we need more of this. thanks for sharing this online.
Yes, if you go to the video on Jewish.TV, the Part II video is on the bottom.
is there a video of the q&a session with the chief?