AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
February 11, 2015
Jane Lee
A senior Orthodox rabbi has resigned from the board of the Yeshiva Centre in Sydney amid revelations he did not know that touching a child’s genitals could be criminal.
Rabbi Yosef Feldman this week appeared before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to give evidence on the centre’s response to child abuse allegations against its employees, where he has said that Jews who know of abuse allegations should report them to their rabbi before going to the police.
Rabbi Feldman, previously also the administrative director of the centre’s rabbinical college, resigned from the centre’s board of management on Wednesday.
“I apologise to anyone in the rabbinate, the Jewish community and the wider Australian community who may have been embarrassed or ashamed by my views, words, understandings, recordings or emails about child sexual abuse or any other matter,” he told Jewish news service J-Wire.
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