AUSTRALIA
The Australian
FEBRUARY 10, 2015 7:27PM
Pia Akerman
Reporter
Melbourne
A VICTIM of child sexual abuse perpetrated by two members of the Yeshivah community has described the ultra-orthodox leadership culture as “rotten to its core”, after learning a senior rabbi described him as an “informer” with no contradiction.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is currently examining the response of the Chabad Yeshivah Centre and school in Melbourne as well as its counterpart in Sydney after the abuse committed by three convicted pedophiles became known, amid accusations of widespread cover-ups.
A man known by the pseudonym AVB, who was abused at Yeshiva College in Bondi and by a Yeshivah Melbourne staff member, told the commission he was stunned to learn this week that Sydney Rabbi Yosef Feldman had described him as a “moser” to other rabbis and met no argument.
A moser is a Jew who informs on another Jew to secular authorities, according to the historical Jewish practice of mesirah.
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