AUSTRALIA
Haaretz

SYDNEY, Australia – A week from hell. That’s how dark these past seven days have been for the Australian Jewish community. The hearings at the Royal Commission into the child sexual abuse scandal have been suffused with acrimony and accusations, tragedy and trauma.

Unsurprisingly, the damning testimonies and explosive admissions have fuelled a barrage of bad publicity – in print, on radio, TV and online, where details of the sordid scandal are being streamed live.

The government-sponsored commission is probing how leaders of Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre and its Sydney counterpart responded to multiple claims of sexual abuse at both Chabad institutions in the 1980s and 1990s. David Cyprys and David Kramer, former employees at Yeshivah in Melbourne, were convicted and jailed in 2013; Daniel “Gug” Hayman, a one-time director of Sydney’s Yeshiva, was convicted in 2014 with a suspended sentence.

If you missed the first week of…