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Velvel Serebryanski, a convicted child sex abuser, admits on camera to having abused his victim in an expose aired by the Kan public broadcaster on June 13, 2017. (Screenshot/Youtube)
December 5, 2025, 1:39 pm
Member of prominent Chabad family in Australia convicted of child sex abuse in long-running scandal
Two years after extradition from US, Velvel Serebryanski found guilty on 4 charges; jury decision marks ‘closing of a long and painful circle,’ says victim Manny Waks
By ToI Staff
FILE -- A group of police officers at Melbourne Magistrate's Court, Australia, March 5, 2018 (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)
May 3, 2021, 3:49 pm
Convicted pedophile who worked at Melbourne Jewish school faces new rape charge
David Cyprys, previously sentenced to 8 years in prison for sex crimes, is indicted after accusations from first non-Jewish alleged victim
By ToI Staff
Manny Waks in front of Melbourne's Yeshivah College (News Corp. courtesy of Manny Waks)
September 2, 2015, 4:03 am
Melbourne rabbi steps down over handling of sex abuse
After accusations he orchestrated the shunning of whistleblowers, Chabad’s Tzvi Telsner apologizes, resigns
By JTA
Manny Waks in front of Melbourne's Yeshivah College (News Corp. courtesy of Manny Waks)
March 13, 2015, 6:48 pm
Melbourne Chabad officials resign amid sex abuse fallout
Four senior members step down after victims call for resignation of management in wake of 2011 scandal
By JTA
Manny Waks testifies before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. (Courtesy Manny Waks)
February 16, 2015, 4:02 pm
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
Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant, who resigned as president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, on February 16, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube/The Shabbos Project)
February 16, 2015, 1:42 pm
Top Australian rabbi resigns over sex commission texts
Meir Shlomo Kluwgant steps down after writing that father of abuse victims is ‘a lunatic on the fringe’
By ToI Staff
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