NEW YORK
The Jewish Week
08/26/13
Gary Rosenblatt
Editor & Publisher
An independent report commissioned by Yeshiva University to investigate allegations of abuse at its boys high school, and other affiliated schools, has found that “multiple incidents of varying types of sexual and physical abuse took place at the boys school” during the last decades of the 20th century.
It said the situation has “significantly improved” since 2001.
The much-anticipated 53-page report, based on interviews with more than 145 individuals and a review of 96,000 electronic documents and 2.6 million e-mails, was released this morning by Sullivan and Cromwell, the law firm commissioned by YU.
The research was conducted independent and was not shared with YU officials prior to being posted on the firm’s website on Monday.
The main findings appear to corroborate the substance of the allegations by a number of former YU high school students from the 1970s and `80s who have filed a lawsuit seeking up to $680 million in damages, primarily against Rabbi George Finkelstein, a former principal of the high school, and Rabbi Macy Gordon, who taught Talmud there from 1956 to 1983.
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