David's father says "He teaches at Torah Vyirah. It's the local yeshiva". A yeshiva is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied in parallel. As of 2024, there is a real institution called "UNITED TALMUDICAL ACADEMY TORAH VYIRAH INC", in Brooklyn, New York City.
Munch (Richard Belzer ) says "The biblical concept of lifnei iver commands you not to look the other way". In Judaism, Lifnei Iver is a Hebrew expression defining a prohibition against misleading people by use of a "stumbling block," or allowing a person to proceed unawares in unsuspecting danger or culpability. The origin comes from the commandment "Before the blind, do not put a stumbling block" (Leviticus 19:14). It is one of the offenses which the Talmud argues to be punishable by excommunication in Judaism.
Stabler (Christopher Meloni ) says "It's like the church moving priests around to different parishes. It's called a cover-up". In early 2002, The Boston Globe published results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests, and thrust the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy into the national spotlight. The Globe's coverage encouraged other victims to come forward with allegations of abuse, resulting in numerous lawsuits and 249 criminal cases. Subsequent investigations and allegations revealed a pattern of sexual abuse and cover-ups in a number of large dioceses across the United States. What had first appeared to be a few isolated cases of abuse became a nationwide scandal, then a global crisis, for the Roman Catholic Church. Ultimately, it became clear that priests and lay members of religious orders in the Catholic Church had sexually abused minors on a scale such that the accusations reached into the thousands over several decades. A major aggravating factor, was the actions of Catholic bishops to keep these crimes secret and to reassign the accused to other parishes in positions where they had continued unsupervised contact with youth, thus allowing the abusers to continue their crimes. The Globe's coverage is a key plot element of the film Spotlight (2015).
Rabbi Iscowitz says "The Beth Din has been the cornerstone of our legal system since the time of Moses". Beth Din is a Jewish court of law, composed of three rabbinic judges, responsible for matters of religious law and the settlement of civil disputes.
The Hague Convention aims to prevent the abduction, sale of, or trafficking in children.