AUSTRALIA
Failed Messiah
The Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) is appalled by, and unequivocally distances itself from, comments attributed to Rabbi Boruch Lesches [the former Chabad rosh yeshiva in Sydney] as reported in The Age (23 June 2013). As stated on numerous occasions,the RCV encourages the reporting of all incidents of child sexual abuse to the police.
Among other things, Leches said that poor “goyyim” as young as five have sex with dogs as a matter of course because they’re bored and don’t have much else to do.
He also said that young Jewish boys who were raped by a Chabad pedophile may have wanted the sex and consented.
Leches is now the mora d’asra (senior rabbi and community leader) of Chabad’s main synagogue in Monsey, New York, and is often called on to act as a posek (decisor of halakha, Jewish law) for Chabad followers worldwide.
So far, no official Chabad group has publicly condemned Leches’ remarks or distanced Chabad from them (although many Chabad rabbis do sit on the RCV).
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