NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By Reuven Blau AND Rachel Monahan / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, December 13, 2012
THE PRESIDENT of Yeshiva University apologized Thursday over allegations two rabbis at the college’s high school campus abused boys in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
Yeshiva was repeatedly notified that a Talmud teacher, Rabbi Macy Gordon, and a former principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein, abused students, alums of the High School for Boys told the Jewish newspaper the Forward.
University President Richard Joel stopped short of confirming the allegations but called the abuse described in published reports “heinous and inexcusable.”
“The thought that such behavior could have occurred at our boys’ high school, or anywhere at this institution, at any time in its past, is more than sufficient reason to express on behalf of the University, my deepest, most profound apology,” he wrote in a letter posted on the Yeshiva website.
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