Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia
J-Wire
10 February 2015
The Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia – their statement:
The Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia join all other Jewish communal organisations and Rabbis in expressing our revulsion and abhorrence at the statements expressed by Rabbi Yossi Feldman before the Royal Commission into sexual abuse. Such statements and opinions that he has expressed have no basis or foundation in Jewish law and are to be condemned unequivocally.
Moreover, it is clear that having made such statements , Rabbi Feldman can no longer be regarded as fit and proper to serve in any communal capacity and in particular any position that involves any pastoral care and involvement within the Jewish and wider community at large.
Romy Leibler
President
Originally published at J-Wire.
The Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Australia join all other Jewish communal organisations and Rabbis in expressing our revulsion and abhorrence at the statements expressed by Rabbi Yossi Feldman before the Royal Commission into sexual abuse. Such statements and opinions that he has expressed have no basis or foundation in Jewish law and are to be condemned unequivocally.
Moreover, it is clear that having made such statements , Rabbi Feldman can no longer be regarded as fit and proper to serve in any communal capacity and in particular any position that involves any pastoral care and involvement within the Jewish and wider community at large.
Romy Leibler
President
Originally published at J-Wire.