AUSTRALIA
The Age

February 17, 2015

Liam Mannix
Reporter

The Rabbinical Council of Victoria has demanded the resignations of all rabbis implicated in testimony before the royal commission into child sexual abuse.

Australia’s top rabbi, president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia Meir Shlomo Kluwgant, resigned on Monday night after revelations at the commission that he called the father of three children sexually abused at Jewish children’s homes a “lunatic”.

On Tuesday the Victorian Rabbinical Council released a statement calling on others to do the same.

“We call upon others, rabbis and lay-leaders alike, who were implicated in the testimony presented at the royal commission to follow suit and take ultimate responsibility for their actions.