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  • Okay -- now you get why a movie about a house in which all kinds of creepy events are going down thanks to the spirit of a mass-murderer -- many of them in the basement -- might traumatize an 8-year-old.

    The eight horror movies most likely to wreck a childhood Jen Chaney 2010

  • September 28th marked the 30-year anniversary of The Post's publication of "Jimmy's World," a front page story about an 8-year-old boy with a heroin habit, who, it turned out, didn't exist.

    Story pick: Janet Cooke and "Jimmy's World" Annys Shin 2010

  • By the time my 8-year-old daughter has kids of her own, this won't even be an issue.

    Susan J. Demas: The Michigan Legislature Slashes Away the Gay Susan J. Demas 2011

  • Just try and make it through without a dry eye when Dyson's 8-year-old brother explains how he told his mom to get the Cinderella costume Dyson begged to wear for Halloween.

    'My Princess Boy': The anti-bullying book and the boy who inspired it Melissa Bell 2010

  • By the time my 8-year-old daughter has kids of her own, this won't even be an issue.

    Susan J. Demas: The Michigan Legislature Slashes Away the Gay Susan J. Demas 2011

  • The spectacle of haredi -- that is, ultra-Orthodox -- thugs spitting on Naama Margolis, an 8-year-old schoolgirl in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh has exacerbated the already frayed relations between the fundamentalist religious sector of the Jewish community, in Israel and elsewhere, and the rest of us, that is, Conservative, Reform, Modern Orthodox and secular Jews.

    Menachem Rosensaft: Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Need Not Be Obscurantist Menachem Rosensaft 2012

  • On Dec. 23, the most popular news show in Israel featured a story on Na'ama Margolese, an 8-year-old girl in the city of Beit Shemesh, who was afraid to walk the 900 feet from her home to her Modern Orthodox school because religious extremists cursed and spit on her for being dressed "immodestly."

    Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, Ph.D.: Message To Religious Extremists: Listen To Joseph! Ph.D. Rabbi Mel Gottlieb 2012

  • On Dec. 23, the most popular news show in Israel featured a story on Na'ama Margolese, an 8-year-old girl in the city of Beit Shemesh, who was afraid to walk the 900 feet from her home to her Modern Orthodox school because religious extremists cursed and spit on her for being dressed "immodestly."

    Rabbi Mel Gottlieb, Ph.D.: Message To Religious Extremists: Listen To Joseph! Ph.D. Rabbi Mel Gottlieb 2012

  • The spectacle of haredi -- that is, ultra-Orthodox -- thugs spitting on Naama Margolis, an 8-year-old schoolgirl in the Israeli town of Beit Shemesh has exacerbated the already frayed relations between the fundamentalist religious sector of the Jewish community, in Israel and elsewhere, and the rest of us, that is, Conservative, Reform, Modern Orthodox and secular Jews.

    Menachem Rosensaft: Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Need Not Be Obscurantist Menachem Rosensaft 2012

  • Jennifer Haigh's fourth novel, "Faith," is a compassionate portrayal of a Boston priest who has been accused of molesting an 8-year-old boy.

    A Family Tale Of Churchly Woe Sam Sacks 2011

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