tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13302026145809445902024-03-02T07:50:11.393-08:00The Voice of Vicki PolinVicki Polin is an award winning, retired Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, who has been working in the anti-rape field since 1985. This blog reflects some of her past work, and contains articles and other information dear to her heart. Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-29631245228063689522022-06-07T21:13:00.002-07:002022-06-07T21:33:08.389-07:00I was once a Palestinian Sympathizer<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQW9QgHLIqJm17_jqr-5jWrSvGm5fsLVqVW6GE7UcHozvM51f8W9vh0-ASjWkTbxhdp8ZWfA_Fl3TjQj-dDyHyJ_yuMKmZqghlVrXzQvdD9Mr3wKTVLxiVEGydblxu8fTELatgYjst9jJU1-yifu9Vm5-CltL63JVZB8yezYqoowTHryc4wIWnOe7NTg/s446/41D5A71E-0B40-4AEA-AA2E-0139C1E6A790.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="446" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQW9QgHLIqJm17_jqr-5jWrSvGm5fsLVqVW6GE7UcHozvM51f8W9vh0-ASjWkTbxhdp8ZWfA_Fl3TjQj-dDyHyJ_yuMKmZqghlVrXzQvdD9Mr3wKTVLxiVEGydblxu8fTELatgYjst9jJU1-yifu9Vm5-CltL63JVZB8yezYqoowTHryc4wIWnOe7NTg/w306-h302/41D5A71E-0B40-4AEA-AA2E-0139C1E6A790.jpeg" width="306" /></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: arial;"></span></div><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: arial;">Over twenty years ago I thought of myself as being a </span><a href="https://jweekly.com/2006/03/17/confessions-of-a-former-palestinian-sympathizer/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: arial;">Palestinian Sympathizer</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: arial;">. Various life experiences altered my views. I’ll admit that </span><a href="https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/From-the-River-to-the-Sea" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: arial;">I have my biases with any individual or group that wishes my family, friends, myself and or my people dead.</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: arial;"> If I only had one or two examples to share, I might have left things slide — yet after several scary situation I’m a different person and my views changed.</span></div><p></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I grew up secular with little knowledge of my faith, so back in 1999 I went to Israel searching. At the time I knew very little about Israeli politics or the conflict with the people who refer to themselves as being Palestinian. I’ve always believed everyone deserved a homeland, yet after my experiences I have a strong belief that Israel belong to Jews — and yes, being anti-Israel IS being antisemitic. Israel is the only place in the world Jews can always call home.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Back in 1999 I went to Israel for the first time. I stayed in Jerusalem for several months. From the moment I arrived I was warned by several people that it was dangerous for Jews to shop in the Arab quarters (which is now referred to as the Muslim Quarters) within the Old City of Jerusalem.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I was naive when I believed people were people, no matter where they lived or what faith they followed. I didn’t want to subscribe to the fear. I watched the news in the United States, and truly believed I’d be safe. My friend Pinky felt the same way as me, so we went shopping in the Arab Quarters.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During our excursion we went to a few stores, before going into another shop which turned into “the little shop of horrors”. At first the owner was very friendly and helpful. Between Pinky and myself, we must have spent a few hundred dollars on souvenirs for our friends and family members back in the United States.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After our purchases were complete a group of men came out from the back room of the store. The shop owner along with these men were shouting at us. “You dirty Jews get out of our store, we don’t want your filth here. Don’t ever come back”. Both Pinky and I were in a state of shock. We left immediately. As we walked out we realized this group of men were following us. We started to run, yet they continued chasing us down the narrow road. We were both frightened and feared for our lives.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Suddenly as we were running, a man grabbed my arm pulling me into his shop. Pinky followed, in hopes of protecting me. Both Pinky and I were terrified. We had no idea who the man was or why he pulled me in. Once inside the man told us to go into a back room and hide. To our relief the man was attempting to protect us from what we believed were members of <a href="https://www.dni.gov/nctc/groups/hamas.html">Hamas</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We hid for about thirty minutes. During that time we got to know this hero who saved our lives. As we spoke we learned our hero grew up in Park Ridge, IL (suburb of Chicago, near where I was from) and went to <a href="https://east.maine207.org/">Maine East High School</a>. As we spoke, I discovered our hero knew a friend of mine who also went to Maine East. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When it was safe for us to leave the store, our hero wanted to give each of us a gift of anything in his store. I felt funny taking anything, especially since he already risked his life to save ours. Our hero insisted, picked up a sterling silver Star of David and handed it to me. He continued on by saying “I want you to have this so you remember me”, and continued by saying “not all Palestinians are terrorist”. The Star of David is something I still have and cherish. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During this same visit to Israel I was living with a family. I remember watching English speaking news on TV. I kept hearing about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_child_suicide_bombers_by_Palestinian_militant_groups">Arab mothers tying bombs on to their children</a> and putting their babies on buses to blow up Jews. I never heard of this occurring before. This type information was never reported on the news back home. Sadly twenty something years ago it was a common practice.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After working with abused and neglected children for years, I couldn’t understand why Israeli child protective services didn’t intervene by removing the remaining children out of the homes of the parents that murdered their youngest. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Several different people explained to me that if Israeli Government removed Arab children out of their homes, that the news media would twist the story, and make it into something anti-Arab, instead of attempts to protect children. It was at that time I first heard Golda Meir’s famous quote: “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My next experience of the hate that many Palestinians had for Jews occurred a few years later when I returned to Israel and lived in Jerusalem. I had a regular hair stylist who I became friends with. He cut my hair on several occasions. Sadly the last time I saw him was an experience I’ll never forget.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My stylist was cutting my hair as we were both chatted. A group of men entered the salon and called my stylist over. I had no idea what was going on, yet I could see terror in the eyes my stylist. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another stylist came over to me and explained that he would have to finish my hair, that my stylist was unable to finish my hair now or in the future. My stylist was Palestinian, and the men (who I believe were connected to Hamas) who entered the store warned my stylist if he was caught cutting the hair of another Jew, that his family members would be harmed and or be killed. He was also ordered to never communicate with me again.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A few months after my stylist was barred from cutting my hair or of any other Jew, I went with my friend, <a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2006/05/in-memory-of-elisheva-buxbaum-rape.html">Elisheva Buxbaum</a> to Hebron for a business meeting. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The only safe way for Jews to go to Hebron from Jerusalem was by taking an armored bus (which I had done in the past). Elisheva and I took the bus from Jerusalem to the <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/tomb-of-the-patriarchs-ma-arat-hamachpelah">Cave of the Patriarchs,</a> and then started our walked to where we were having our meeting.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We walked a few blocks before I noticed my shoe laces were untied. I was about to bend down to tie my shoes when Elisheva stopped me. I had no idea how dangerous that could have been. Elisheva explained to me that we had to walk through an area under the control of Hamas to get to where we were going. She explained the odds were that there were several people inside their homes with assault weapons aimed at us. Elisheva said bending down to tie my shoe, meant we were targets practice for those who hated Jews. With my heart being fast, we continued on our way to this vitally important meeting. All I can say is this was a totally different type of experience then if I had been walking alone in a bad neighborhood of Chicago at night.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Elisheva and I continued walking a few more blocks when suddenly we were surrounded by a group of men with assault weapons. If it wasn’t for the IDF watching us, and coming up behind us in a tank, neither Batsheva or I would have survive. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once we got to the meeting, Elisheva told me she wanted me to have the “Hebron experience”, that’s why we walked. Elisheva said on our way back that we would take an armored bus. I was angry at Elisheva at the time, yet with hindsight I learned the valuable lesson she wanted me to experience.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A few weeks after I left Israel, there was a suicide bombing downtown Jerusalem in front of the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/on-this-day-suicide-bombing-kills-15-at-sbarro-pizzeria-676228">Sbarro restaurant</a> on the corners King George and Yaffe roads. This was the very location and time that once a week I would meet my friend Batsheva weekly at the same time of the terrorist attack. I can’t help but be grateful I left Israel when I did, if I stayed longer both my friend and I would have been killed for being Jews.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The last straw for me was when my friend <a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2004/03/yechezkel-chezi-goldberg-honoring-rape.html">Chezi Goldberg</a> was murdered. It was on January 29, 2004 during a terrorist attack on the #19 bus in Jerusalem, Israel. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Chezi dedicated his short life to helping teens at risk (survivors of childhood emotional, physical and sexual abuse). He was a valued resource to the organization I founded, and to this day is truly miss him.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Chezi and the other eleven people murdered on that bus did nothing wrong. They were not violent people. They were just taking a city bus home.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once again I have to say, I have a difficult time being supportive to any individual or group of people who wish myself, my friends, family, and or my people dead.</span></p></div>Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-15408844748134058702022-05-06T09:58:00.012-07:002022-05-09T05:56:08.737-07:00 Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and the #MeToo Movement<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnIij5TVOss0RKzKjzx1vYLoquGQ0SZkNTbx0mmHaGIIbkrB5-PqEQtK-HamnK71iveXHX2kUUedIfr56L-nL1k0zRave6FuYvG0iknzUKZEAUra4cjnF6UMXVOAllhFluSK2qwA4xdog8LkLF__bIx4TdUiTGSMYHHGZ0FQy-LeouAzGEA4RPsgjC1g/s1305/C56343BD-C515-4F48-9621-AA17636C5189.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="1305" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnIij5TVOss0RKzKjzx1vYLoquGQ0SZkNTbx0mmHaGIIbkrB5-PqEQtK-HamnK71iveXHX2kUUedIfr56L-nL1k0zRave6FuYvG0iknzUKZEAUra4cjnF6UMXVOAllhFluSK2qwA4xdog8LkLF__bIx4TdUiTGSMYHHGZ0FQy-LeouAzGEA4RPsgjC1g/w400-h307/C56343BD-C515-4F48-9621-AA17636C5189.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></i></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><i>It</i></span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #525252;"> was the 1960s, </span><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/case-of-rabbi-shlomo-carlebach.html" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">Shlomo Carlebach</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #525252;"> was like a rock star. Most rabbonim were very aware of the complaints, yet weren’t trained in dealing with such issues. You have to understand how things were handled back then. Shlomo liked his women — you ask why so many women have been coming forward over the years claiming abuse? . . . “Let’s just say Carlebach had at least one woman a week, but knowing Shlomo it was more likely he had a few women a day — times that by 40 years of doing kiruv (Jewish outreach).” </span><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #525252;">— </span><a href="https://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/blau-yosef" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">Rabbi Yosef Blau</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #525252;">, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University (2004</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #525252;">)</span></i></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #525252; font-size: medium;"></span></i></span><p></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Back in 2004, Rabbi Yosef Blau was a member of the Board of Directors of The Awareness Center, and was explaining to me who Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was. The above quote has been on <a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/case-of-rabbi-shlomo-carlebach.html"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">The Awareness Center’s</span></a> web page for nearly 20 years.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If <a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/case-of-rabbi-shlomo-carlebach.html"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach</span></a> assaulted one woman a day for 40 years, he would have assaulted 14,660 women in his lifetime, yet according to Rabbi Yosef Blau — Shlomo Carlebach “<a href="https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/allegedly"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">allegedly</span></a>” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/ovw/sexual-assault"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">assaulted</span></a> more then one female a day. If Rabbi Blau along with the multitude of rabbis I spoke to over the years are correct, Shlomo Carlebach is one of the most prolific sexual predators in the history of humankind.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Recently I was told that once again there’s a movement which is being spearheaded by <a href="https://centralsynagogue.org/about-us/our-clergy/angela-w-buchdahl"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl</span></a> who serves as the senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City, to make it socially acceptable for <a href="https://neshamacarlebach.com/"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">Neshama Carlebach</span></a> and others to sing Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s songs publicly.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In honor and in memory of the teenage girls and adult women who over the decades disclosed they were sexually assaulted by Carlebach, this movement needs to be stopped.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Shlomo Carlebach passed away October 21, 1994, since that time there have been several attempts to make this prolific, “alleged” sexual predator into a tzaddick (saint). </span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Years ago a group tried to have a street in New York City named after Carlebach, and then a Broadway musical was written about him by people who say they support the <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/4/20852639/me-too-movement-sexual-harassment-law-2019"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">#MeToo</span></a> movement.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Can you imagine the toll all of this has been for the survivors of Shlomo Carlebach? Just image what it was like for survivors and their support people to walk into a synagogue or another Jewish institutions or events where everyone was celebrating the man, when you considered to him to be a sex predator.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A few months ago I was contacted by an individual who is creating a documentary about Shlomo Carlebach’s life. The individual was wanting to speak to a particular survivor who disclosed her story to me several years ago. <a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2007/02/arielas-story-survivor-of-shlomo.htm"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">The survivor</span></a> granted permission to <a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">The Awareness Center</span></a> to publish her testimony anonymously on the page regarding Carlebach. The survivor was highly respected and established in her community, and needed anonymity.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have to be honest, I was conflicted when I was asked to connect the individual creating the documentary to the survivor. I was haunted by the thought of asking any of the Carlebach survivors to share a painful and ugly part of their lives with another reporter. </span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Carlebach survivors have already been through enough! How many times are these women expected to go on the record? These women owe us nothing. Why can’t what they shared years ago be enough?</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When a survivor goes public, their lives will be changed forever. Yes, there’s some individuals in their lives who would be supportive — yet many survivors report that are meet them with disbelief. Many survivors are shamed, blames, harassed, stalked, loose friends, and or family members. A few survivors have reported that they have also became unemployed after their disclosures.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If Shlomo Carlebach was still alive he would be nearly a hundred years old. The first group of women he “allegedly” assault would also be around his same age. The vast majority of whom are no long with us.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please note that I use the word “allegedly” because Shlomo Carlebach was never convicted of a crime. The reasoning being that during most of the years of Carlebach’s “alleged” reign of terror — there weren’t laws on the books to have him criminally prosecuted. </span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s important for everyone to understand Shlomo Carlebach’s “alleged” criminal behavior from a <a href="https://wiki.preventconnect.org/history-of-the-rape-crisis-movement-and-sexual-violence-prevention/"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">historic perspective</span></a>. </span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">No one knows for sure how long Shlomo Carlebach had been “allegedly” sexually assaulting teenage girls and adult women. What we do know is that in <a href="https://outorah.org/p/31080/"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">1959</span></a>, rabbi <a href="https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/feinstein-rabbi-moses"><span style="color: #3b8bea;">Moshe Feinstein</span></a> wrote a rabbinic decree banning Shlomo Carlebach’s music.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Up until January 1, 1984, there were no laws on the books in the United States to have Shlomo Carlebach prosecuted for many of the sex crime he “allegedly committed. Before 1984 it was not socially acceptable to have a sex offender prosecuted. The belief was that the blame of a sex crime belonged to those who were victimized, and not the offender.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Up until 1972 there were no rape crisis center in the United States for survivors of sex crimes to get help. The first rape crisis centers were established in major cities and politically active towns such as Berkeley, New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. They had little funding and we’re not a place women in the Jewish Orthodox world would visit.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rape Crisis Centers had little funding until The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) was past, which has been a federal law (Title IV of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, H.R. 3355) which was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994.</span></p>
<p style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 30px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sadly during the decades of Carlebach’s reign of terror against women, folks didn’t make police reports. Instead the women and family members of who were assaulted went to their rabbis or other community leaders to make complaints. Nothing was done to stop the perpetrators. The women and parents of children were told to keep the assaults quiet or the women and children when they became marriage age would not get good marriage partners, also were told no one would believe them and or would be blamed for the assaults.</span></p>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Recently an article was published regarding an incest survivor in Australia, who’s stepfather sexually assaulted his stepchild over 1800 times.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">The truth of the matter is that many children who are raped inside their homes are often raped daily. To the best of my knowledge there is no research into this topic. No one knows the statistics on what the average number of times an incest survivor who is sexually assaulted within the home. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">There are various types of incestuous sexual predators. Some relatives only offend their daughters, others are only interested in their sons. There are also other offenders who are only attracted to children within a particular age group, while others offenders, age and or sex doesn’t matter. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">There is also a subgroup of incest survivors who stated that their abuse continued on into their adulthood. Even though this group of survivors were biologically adults, emotionally/psychologically they were still children.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">I was just playing around with numbers and this is what I came up with. Considering these facts, why is it very few advocacy and news media groups addressing the issue of incest.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Raped 1 time per day (365 days in a year) x 18 years = 6570</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 11pt;">Raped 1 time per day (365 days in a year) x 9 years = 3285</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">Cherished Sister of the late Evan (Addie) Green.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">Fond sister-in-law of the late Paul (Marsha) Polin.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Chicago Mitzvah Campaign, 2939 West Touhy Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60645 <a href="http://www.chicagomitzvahcampaign.org/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(3, 78, 131); color: #034e83; font-size: 12pt;">www.chicagomitzvahcampaign.org</span></a> or to The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, 80 Main Street, Suite 380, West Orange, NJ 07052 <a href="http://www.jfr.org/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(3, 78, 131); color: #034e83; font-size: 12pt;">www.jfr.org</span></a>.</span></div>
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Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-91242671321690613322019-01-27T16:34:00.004-08:002022-05-06T16:37:04.760-07:00My Grandpa Sam<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-60247482454147124822018-09-29T11:47:00.000-07:002018-09-29T11:47:04.374-07:00Reflection on Projection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I thought was funny about those attacks was the fact that my bio clearly stated that I have an undergraduate degree in feminist studies, along with a masters degree in one of the clinical counseling fields. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So who am I politically? I have never been a member of any political party. My reasoning is that I don’t want to be subjected to “group thought” or peer pressure. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is one of those days that those who have been victimized will feel a full range of emotions (anger, sadness, depression, etc.).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many survivors may be experiencing an increase of flashbacks to their own victimization. Because of this it’s important to check in with each other. It should be a day of spreading kindness and love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a day we should all be sending our thoughts and prayers out to Christine Ford and be thankful to her for her heroic efforts.</span></div>
Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-15896960661943628202018-09-26T22:36:00.001-07:002018-09-26T22:42:10.720-07:00One example of why it’s complicated to report sex crimes<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-68918013702672847722018-09-23T19:21:00.001-07:002018-09-23T19:21:31.813-07:00Congress on Sex Crimes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 16pt;">As a mental health professional who has been involved in the anti rape field for nearly thirty-five years, I am outraged at the behavior of these men who were elected to represent their constituent, and not their own personal egos.</span></div>
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Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-84144646680138688272018-09-12T12:01:00.001-07:002018-09-15T10:02:38.793-07:00Facebook is censoring those who combat antisemitism <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-1835063334452567502018-08-22T12:16:00.004-07:002018-09-15T10:04:00.128-07:00High Holidays and being a Stalking Survivor <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">With </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">all the ugliness that occurred during the years of running The Awareness Center (being stalked, harassed, belittled, spit at, having my home broken into, being assaulted, hit and run car accidents, etc.), it makes it difficult to want to walk into a synagogue for the high holidays. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m a Jew, could never be anything else. Yet the hate thrown my way for nearly 20 years has had its impact on me. </span></div>
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Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-6956380933177003082018-06-17T12:21:00.000-07:002018-09-15T10:19:10.916-07:00A Thought About Father’s Day <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't like the term "forgive or forgiveness" when it comes to these sorts of crimes (physical, emotional and sexual abuse). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I personally have acceptance for who my father is, what he did, and who he became over the last forty years that I have been apart from my family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also find it important to acknowledge my thoughts and feelings on Father's Day, especially when friends post photos of their loving dads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's important to let others who were abused in their homes to know they are not alone, and their thoughts and feelings are valid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's also important to remind others, that not everyone comes from loving homes, and that holidays, like Father's Day and Mother's Day could be painful to their friends, other family members and co-workers.</span></div>
Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-64230215595360482642016-03-31T10:08:00.000-07:002020-05-27T19:37:27.886-07:00In Memory of Alan D. Uretz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all have important people in our lives with whom we lost contact with over the years. Alan Uretz was one of those people for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It saddens me greatly to learn that this man who spent his life trying to heal others has passed away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I first met Alan while we both were in our Late twenties / early thirties. He worked his magic on me utilizing his knowledge of eastern medicine — to help me heal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alan was one of the most brilliant men I ever met. Like many of us, he struggled with his own childhood demons. He had a difficult time finding a way to heal from the nightmares he experienced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alan wasn’t perfect — yet he did his best to be there for others who were in pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish I would have known he had cancer, so I could have been there for him like he was for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rest In Peace dear friend. May your memory be for a blessing.</span></div>
<br />Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-86136878304438093972016-03-07T08:40:00.001-08:002016-03-07T08:40:33.604-08:00Are you worshiping your God or your Ego?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-89998759242124355742016-02-21T20:21:00.000-08:002016-02-21T20:21:02.252-08:00Adult Survivors of Child Abuse: Grieving and Loss <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-965458715131823842016-02-20T20:17:00.001-08:002016-02-20T20:17:08.602-08:00Henry the 8th on Domestic Violence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-68552010953611068052016-02-13T19:12:00.001-08:002016-02-13T19:12:39.338-08:00Loosing Family Members Due To Child Abuse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-61107777226955006602016-02-11T21:36:00.004-08:002016-02-20T20:20:14.347-08:00 People You Should Know: History of the Anti Rape Movement <div style="text-align: center;">
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ellen Bass</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/in-honor-of-lucy-berliner.html" target="_blank">Lucy Berliner</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/">E. Sue Blume</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-michael-brecher.html" target="_blank">Michael Brecher</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-neil-brick.html" target="_blank">Neil Brick</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-susan-brownmiller-april-is.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Susan Brownmiller</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-ann-wolbert-burgess.html" target="_blank">Ann Wolbert Burgess</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-sandra-butler-author.html" target="_blank">Sandra Butler</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-diane-carson.html" target="_blank">Diana Carson</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-irene-deschenes.html">Irene Deschenes</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-andrea-dworkin.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Andrea Dworkin</a></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-toni-cavanagh-johnson.html" target="_blank">Toni Cavanagh Johnson</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-laurieann-chutis.html">Laurieann Chutis</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2011/03/marcia-cohn-spiegel-true-founder-of.html" target="_blank">Marcia Cohn-Spiegel</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-letty-cottin-pogrebin.html" target="_blank">Letty Cottin Pogrebin</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tom Economus</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-barbara-engel.html" target="_blank">Barbara Engel</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-beverly-engel.html" target="_blank">Beverly Engel</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 21.99652862548828px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/1999/12/in-memory-of-anne-marie-and-eric.html" target="_blank">Anne Marie Erikkson</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://vickipolinvoice.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-honor-of-eric-h-erikson.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;">Erik H. Erikson, PhD</span></a></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 21.99652862548828px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/1995/04/anne-marie-and-eric-erikkson-heroes-to.html" target="_blank">Erik Erikkson</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-hank-estrada.html" target="_blank">Hank Estrada</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 17.984375px; text-align: justify;">David Finkelhor</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-frank-l-fitzpatrick.html" target="_blank">Frank L. Fitzpatrick</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/in-honor-of-sara-omeara-and-yvonne.html" target="_blank">Yvonne Fedderson</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-ken-followell.html" target="_blank">Ken Followell</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;">Howard Fradkin</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-renee-fredrickson-phd.html" target="_blank">Renée Fredrickson, PhD</a></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rebecca Freedman</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William N. Friedrich</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sandi Gallant</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James Garbarino</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-eliana-gil.html" target="_blank">Eliana Gil</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2004/03/yechezkel-chezi-goldberg-honoring-rape.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chezi Goldberg (Scott Goldberg)</span></a></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jean Goodwin</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/judith-herman-md-sex-offenders.html" target="_blank">Judith Herman</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/in-memory-and-honoring-jan-hindman.html" target="_blank">Jan Hindman</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beverly Holman</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lynda Lytle Holmstrom</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; line-height: 15.555556297302246px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-jim-hopper.html" target="_blank">Jim Hopper</a></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-mic-hunter.html" target="_blank">Mic Hunter</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marc Klaas</span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/08/alicia-kozakiewicz-someone-you-should.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alicia Kozakiewicz</span></a></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-laura-x-sexual-assault.html" target="_blank">Laura X</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-murray-levin_15.html" target="_blank">Murray Levin</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mike Lew</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times";"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rachel Liberman</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/1986/01/the-bond-abused-survivor-of-incest.html" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sharon L. Lowenstein</span></a></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wendy Maltz</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leah Marinelli</span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-nancy-mayer.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;" target="_blank">Nancy Mayer</a></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;">Helen McGonigle</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 21.99652862548828px;"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2008/12/ava-miedzinskis-story-jewish-survivors.html" target="_blank">Ava Miedzinski</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alice Miller</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-ellen-mugmon.html" target="_blank">Ellen Mugmon</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-toby-myers.html" target="_blank">Toby Myers</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/in-honor-of-sara-omeara-and-yvonne.html" target="_blank">Sara O'Meara</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/1996/10/honoring-debra-nussbaum-cohen.html" target="_blank">Debra Nussbaum Cohen</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/1984/10/the-story-of-peter-parker-spiderman.html" target="_blank">Peter Parker</a> (AKA: Spider-Man)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/01/about-our-founder-vicki-polin.html" target="_blank">Vicki Polin</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eugene Porter</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Polly Poskin</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sally Jesse Raphael</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-florence-rush-sexual-assault.html" target="_blank">Florence Rush</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-diana-russell-founder-of-anti.html" target="_blank">Diana Russell</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/09/womens-history-margaret-sanger.html" target="_blank">Margaret Sanger</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Judge Charles B. Schudson</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-bob-schwiderski.html" target="_blank">Bob Schwiderski</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-kathleen-shaw.html" target="_blank">Kathy Shaw</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ken Singer</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-rick-springer.html" target="_blank">Rick Springer</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/02/in-honor-and-memory-of-rachel-amy.html" target="_blank">Rachel Steamer</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gloria Steinham</span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2012/09/womens-history-lucy-stone.html" style="line-height: 20px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lucy Stone</span></a></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jim Struve</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-roland-c-summit-md.html" target="_blank">Roland C. Summit</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Marlo Thomas</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debby Tucker </span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-tim-walsh.html" target="_blank">Tim Walsh</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-lynn-wasnak.html" target="_blank">Lynn Wasnak</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charles Whitfield</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Susan Weidman Schneider</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c1f3e; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-jan-wohlberg.html">Jan Wohlberg</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Historic Organizations You Should Know</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/honoring-national-clearinghouse-on.html" target="_blank">National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2013/04/s4os-speaking-for-our-selves.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 15.994318008422852px;">S4OS - </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 15.994318008422852px;">Speaking for Our Selves</span></span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">VOICES In Action (Victims Of Incest Can Emerge Survivors)</span></li>
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Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-89941692880536250092016-02-11T21:29:00.002-08:002016-02-11T21:29:25.335-08:00History of Child Abuse Laws: US To Press Ban On Beating Children<div class="clearfix _5x46">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1963 was the year that they really started to ban beating children. That was only 53 years ago.</span><br />
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Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-47670983380306452252016-02-01T16:35:00.003-08:002016-02-01T16:35:56.628-08:00Still In Love After Seventy-Three Years<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was in line at a grocery store the other night when I started chatting with a 92-year-old man. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While we were waiting we started chatting. He told me that he and his wife just got home from Florida. She sent him to the store to get potatoes, yet he was coming home with much more. He also picked up 3 dozen absolutely beautiful roses. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I asked if it was their anniversary? He said no. He said his home was empty of flowers and that the love of his life deserved only the best. He told me they've been married since 1943, and that he has always made sure his woman always had roses.</span></span></div>
Vicki Polinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05442843248040298676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1330202614580944590.post-38133011990816860652016-02-01T08:51:00.001-08:002016-02-01T11:12:55.244-08:00Addictions: Applying For State And/Or Federal Aid<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The following statement has been going around on social media sites for a few years<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, suggest<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing that there be a</span></span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">requirement for</span> those who apply for <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S</span>tate or <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">F</span>ederal aid be drug tested<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> –– and</span> if they come up positive, they <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">would</span> be denied benefits. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a mental health professional who has worked in a methadone clinic and also have worked with individuals with addiction issues in my private practice, I <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">felt the need</span> to share some facts with you.<br /><br />Those who <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have addictions<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> issues also</span></span> often have serious mental health issues (usually they have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and or are bipolar) and need help. Statistically about 98% of them were abused as children, primarily sexually abused. Without help <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">these individuals would be</span> homeless, e<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing out of garbage cans<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span></span></span> and will most likely <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">die at an early age</span>.</span></span><br />
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personally believe this practice should be illegal. People with
addition issues <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ARE</span> considered mentally ill.<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> By denying benefi</span>t's<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, our government would be practicing a</span> form of
discrimination against those with a disability.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is also</span> the fact that a vast number of those using illicit drugs who are <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">veterans</span> who have returned after serving our country. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span>o deny these folks who have serious PTSD and or are bipolar any sort of benefits is a way to turn your back on so many of the folks you grew up with (and or family members). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead of denying them benefits how about having someone help them with their finances and start funding mental health so they can get help. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was also <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">informed that</span> Florida re<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">versed this practice. W</span>hen they implemented this plan nearly everyone was clean so the expense of the testing did not outweigh the savings it was discontinued. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">–– Vicki Polin, MA, LCPC</span></span></div>
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