AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By Max Margan and Hannah Moore For Daily Mail Australia
A disgraced rabbi who admitted to criticising victims of sexual abuse has been appointed principal of a school which allegedly covered up sex crimes.
Meir Shlomo Kluwgant resigned as Australia’s most senior rabbi in 2015 after admitting to calling the father of a child abuse victim a ‘lunatic’ who ‘neglected his own children’.
Kluwgant will now head Melbourne’s Adass Israel School, which has been previously accused of helping a former principal flee to Israel amid allegations she sexually assaulted students, a letter allegedly distributed to staff and published online shows.
‘We are pleased to advise that we have appointed Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant to assume Dr Herszberg’s role. They will be working together collaboratively for the remainder of the year, to ensure a smooth transition,’ the letter reads.
It tells staff the controversial Rabbi was chosen after a ‘global recruitment process’, and with ‘the full support of the Board and Executive’.
Former principal Malka Leifer allegedly abused at least eight girls while she was principal of the Elsternwick school between 2003 and 2008.
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