YU President Expresses `Shame’ Over Past Findings, Pride In Current Policies

NEW YORK
The Jewish Week

08/26/13
Gary Rosenblatt
Editor & Publisher

Yeshiva University President Richard Joel has expressed “profound shame and sadness” over the findings of an independent report commissioned by the University to investigate allegations of abuse at its boys high school, and other affiliated schools.

Issued today, it found that “multiple incidents of varying types of sexual and physical abuse took place at the boys school” and other YU schools during the last decades of the 20th century.

The report said the situation has “significantly improved” since 2001, and issued a series of recommended policies and practices to further protect students. Joel stressed, in an interview with The Jewish Week, that while the past cannot be changed, he was proud of current University procedures and pledged to adopt all of the report’s recommendations.

He said YU had moved “away from a culture of apathy regarding issues of abuse toward one of action, change and growth.”

Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.