But we must act as a community. It doesn’t matter whether your own child has or has not been molested. It doesn’t matter whether you are Satmar or Lubavitch or Bobov or Litvish or Young Israel; whether or not you wear a shtreimel or a sheitel or even whether or not you are shomer Shabbos.

We are all Jews and we must all come together to beg Hashem to help us, to protect our children from being abused, and to heal the entire community.

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Rabbi Asher Lipner, Ph.D., is vice president of the Jewish Board of Advocates for Children. This essay was adapted from a speech he gave at Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s March 1 Boro Park rally in support of victims of abuse.