Rachel Aviv, The Outcast. The New Yorker, 10 November 2014. “After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse in his tight–knit Brooklyn community, he found himself the target of a criminal investigation…. In exchange for political support, Brooklyn politicians give Hasidim latitude to police themselves. They have their own emergency medical corps, a security patrol, and a rabbinic court system, which often handles criminal allegations.”

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