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February 10, 2015 by J-Wire Staff

The Progressive Rabbinic Council of Australia, Asia and New Zealand and the Union for Progressive Judaism have stated their position on statements made at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

progressSigned by Stephen Freeman, president of the UPJ and Rabbi Adi Cohen, Chairman of Moetzah, the statement reads:

“The Rabbis of the Moetzah (the Progressive Rabbinic Council of Australia, Asia and New Zealand) and the leadership of the Union for Progressive Judaism (UPJ) object to any attempt to use Jewish tradition or Jewish Law in order to cover up child sexual abuse, or any crime at all.

Both organisations encourage victims of any kind of abuse to seek the help and support provided by the local and statutory authorities. During the past few years we have faced too many cases of child sexual abuse within the Jewish…