AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
SHANNON DEERY HERALD SUN FEBRUARY 13, 2015
RABBIS embroiled in a sex abuse crisis that has rocked Melbourne’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community still “don’t get it”, a senior figure has admitted.
On the last day of royal commission hearings into Yeshiva Centres in Melbourne and Bondi, Rabbi Yaakov Glasman said some Chabad figures were still clueless when it came to handling child sexual abuse.
Rabbi Glasman, the immediate past president of the Rabbinical Council of Victoria, said the hearings had caused untold damage to the Jewish community because of a handful of radical-thinking rabbis whose evidence has sparked widespread outrage.
“It would be an understatement to say we are deeply disturbed by some of the comments made by some rabbis,” he said.
“There can be no words to mitigate the damage that they have caused.
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