Zionist Federation of Australia Statement – January 2019 For immediate release. The belated response by one of the most senior and influential rabbinic figures in the National-Religious community in Israel to a growing sexual abuse scandal has been condemned by the Zionist Federation of Australia as inadequate, irresponsible and unacceptable. …
Read More »Statement Pres. NSW BoD.Royal Commission-Child Sexual Abuse.
In Australia we are in the midst of a Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse. Some rabbonim within the Chabad/Yeshivah were complicit in the covering up of sexual abuse within their communities. They excused themselves by wrongly covering it up using Jewish Law and tradition. The numbers are small, …
Read More »When good people do bad things
Orthodox communities all over the world continue to struggle with the wave of child sexual abuse accusations coming forth. While there are certainly challenges with any close-knit community dealing with the fallout from public accusations, one would think that once the courts have ruled, the matter would be settled. Yet …
Read More »Adults abusing each other over child abuse
Child abuse is the most abhorrent crime. Sadly, the incidence of child abuse, particularly sexual abuse, has been disclosed in recent times as being perpetrated in a number of educational institutions in Australia. Extremely disturbing facts have been revealed by recent investigations especially within the Catholic Church in Australia and …
Read More »Is it only Progressives and Muslims who condemn child sexual abuse?
My understanding is that Judaism unreservedly condemns child sexual abuse. So I was bemused by the following statement which implied that Orthodox Jews were lukewarm in this respect: … pluralistic Rabbis across Australia, New Zealand and Asia read out the Statement below as part of the Sabbath service…the idea came …
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