UNITED STATES
Forward

Sara Kabakov
January 12, 2016

With all the accounts that have come out about Marc Gafni, the former rabbi and spiritual guru, you may wonder what more I have to offer. But this story is not over, even if Gafni never teaches or abuses again.

Right now there are children in the Jewish world, and in other communities, who are being abused and forced into silence. Their parents and teachers don’t know what is happening.

I know, because it happened to me. I am the woman Gafni molested when she was 13 years old. This is the first time I am telling my story in my own name.

If these children are lucky, someone will notice there is something wrong. But too often, the police are not involved, and these children are unlikely to be protected.

I wasn’t.

These children will grow up, and it…