AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
SHANNON DEERY HERALD SUN FEBRUARY 21, 2015
MELBOURNE’s Yeshivah Centre is one of the biggest Jewish organisations in the southern hemisphere.
So when the royal commission into child sexual abuse blew open its strict code of silence, it sent shock waves around the Jewish world.
Now mainstream Jews are desperately trying to distance themselves from the ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement that runs Yeshivah.
Chabad, perhaps more than most, has strictly observed the code of silence since post-war migrants established Yeshivah here in the 1940s.
Known as mesirah it explicitly prohibits Jews from informing on each other to civil authorities.
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