Topic: Yeshivah Center

February 16, 2015
4:02 pm

Manny Waks testifies before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. (photo credit: Courtesy Manny Waks)

Advocate calls for global Jewish child-abuse commission

Recent Australian hearings highlight complicity of Chabad rabbis, Diaspora communities in cover-ups; flight to Israel also used by perps, says activist Manny Waks

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

March 31, 2013
7:58 pm

Manny Waks, pictured with his father, Zephaniah, has led the campaign to expose sexual abuse in Melbourne's ultra-Orthodox community. (photo credit: Tony Fink via JTA)

Charges of sex abuse rock Australian Jewish community

Legal proceedings set to begin in cases involving Melbourne school; community leader calls Orthodox rabbinate ‘rotten to the core’

By Dan Goldberg

December 3, 2012
4:54 pm

US extradites alleged Jewish day school sex abuser to Australia

Chabad-affiliated school had sent teacher overseas without reporting allegations to police