AUSTRALIA
The Age
December 9, 2013
Barmey Zwartz
One of Australia’s most respected rabbis has been stood down from Melbourne’s prestigious Yeshivah College over allegations that he repeatedly raped a student in the 1970s.
Rabbi Avrohom Glick was then deputy principal, later principal and now head of religious studies.
A police spokeswoman said a 67-year-old man from Balaclava was arrested and interviewed on Monday and released pending further inquiries.
Two former Yeshivah employees were jailed in Melbourne this year over separate child sex offences.
Yeshivah College principal Yehoshua Smukler, who recently wrote to the ultra-Orthodox Yeshivah community to reassure them that police had said no staff members were under investigation, said in a statement that the centre learnt of the allegations only late last week.
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