Rabbi resigns after inquiry testimony

AUSTRALIA
Sky News

The rabbi who told a child abuse royal commission there should be more leniency for repentant pedophiles has resigned from an organisation that runs Jewish schools.

Rabbi Yosef Feldman has issued an apology for comments during the Melbourne hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

He’s resigned as a director of The Yeshiva Centre, including his administrative responsibilities.

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