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Leading Zionist Orthodox Rabbi Asks Convicted Sex Abuser To Continue Teaching In Yeshiva
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Less a week after politically connected Rabbi Mordechai Elon was found guilty of indecent assault by force on a minor, a leading Zionist Orthodox rabbi – perhaps the leading Zionist Orthodox rabbi – Haim Druckman has asked Elon to keep teaching his weekly class in Druckman’s yeshiva, Ynet reported.
Druckman previously made statements in favor of Elon and against Elon’s victims. He also previously publicly supported Ze’ev Kopolevitch, the former head of Jerusalem’s Zionist orthodox Netiv Meir Yeshiva, who was convicted of sexually abusing his students, and failed to report allegations that Kopolevitch was abusing students to police.
Now Druckman has responded to Elon’s conviction by inviting him to go on teaching at the Or Etzion Yeshiva Druckman heads, as Elon has been doing for the past three years.
And so, on Sunday the convicted child sex abuser returned to his normal teaching duties with Druckman’s full blessing.
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