ISRAEL
Arutz Sheva
By Tova Dvorin
First Publish: 7/13/2015
One of the complainants alleging she was sexually abused by a well-known – but yet-unnamed – rabbi in Tzfat (Safed) has written to Arutz Sheva on Monday, before the rabbi is due in court, in an open letter to the defendant.
“I read the things you said to reporters, that you do not know us and want to look us in the eyes,” she began. “The truth this time is that you’re right for a change.”
“You really do not know us, you know just know our bodies; you never saw us,” she wrote. “You did not see our souls.”
“We have husbands, children, families,” she continued. “You trampled on our dignity.”
“Thank God we were released from you, you are in prison and probably will stay there for many years to come.”
“Thanks to your arrest, we can lift our heads high,” she added. “We know you are evil and we’re fine, that you are bent and we are straight, that you are unclean and despicable and we are your victims of that.”
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