child abuse
Rabbi Dr Dovid Slavin, who has implemented new policies at the Yeshiva College in Sydney.
March 30, 2017, 11:55 am
Sydney’s Yeshiva College improves its policies
YESHIVA College, Bondi, has changed its policies after concerns were raised at the Royal Commission that there is a gatekeeper for child sexual abuse allegations.
By Joshua Levi
February 3, 2016, 3:38 pm
Religious scandals in Spotlight
The movie Spotlight, which details how the Boston Globe broke the story of systematic Catholic clergy child abuse in the US, is the best film about investigative journalism since All the President’s Men. See our review.
February 12, 2015, 3:06 am
‘We made a mistake’
By Joshua Levi
December 11, 2014, 12:00 am
Bittersweet triumph for Walkley winners
By Joshua Levi
July 11, 2014, 12:00 am
‘Damning’ report off limits to victims
VICTIMS of convicted sex offender and former Maccabi Victoria mentor Shannon Francis have criticised Jewish sport’s roof body for a lack of transparency over a recent report it commissioned into the scandal and say a key figure, still in a position of power with the organisation, remains steadfastly unrepentant.
By adam kamien
July 7, 2014, 12:00 am
Police probe possible cover-up
NSW Police and the NSW Ombudsman are investigating if there were any breaches of mandatory reporting legislation in relation to child abuse in the Jewish community.
By Joshua Levi
June 12, 2014, 12:00 am
Suspended sentence for Hayman
DANIEL “Gug” Hayman’s religious Jewish upbringing may have led to the sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy in the late 1980s.
By Joshua Levi
May 29, 2014, 12:00 am
Abuse victim ‘bullied’ at shul
A VICTIM of child sexual abuse has told a Sydney court that he feels bullied, intimidated and harassed at synagogue. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sexually assaulted when he was 14 years old at a camp in the late 1980s by former Yeshiva director Daniel “Gug” Hayman, who was a camp supervisor at the time.
By Joshua Levi
May 23, 2014, 12:00 am
‘There are more Hayman victims’
NSW Police are ­hoping to bring further child sexual abuse charges following the guilty plea of Daniel “Gug” Hayman (pictured) to indecent assault by a person in authority last week.
By Joshua Levi
May 15, 2014, 12:00 am
Hayman guilty of abuse
A FORMER director of Yeshiva in Sydney pleaded guilty to one count of indecent assault by a person in authority in a Sydney court on Wednesday.
By Joshua Levi
April 4, 2014, 12:00 am
Waks forced to say sorry to Glick
THE CEO of Jewish child sexual abuse victim advocacy group Tzedek Manny Waks (pictured) has been forced to issue an apology to Rabbi Avrohom Glick as part of a defamation settlement.
By adam kamien
April 3, 2014, 12:00 am
Ezzy was ‘troubled’
By adam kamien
March 6, 2014, 9:50 am
Glick: no case to answer
A POLICE invest-igation into allegations of child sexual abuse against Yeshivah College mainstay Rabbi Avrohom Glick (pictured) has been closed.
By adam kamien
December 19, 2013, 9:40 am
Cyprys to be sentenced Friday
FORMER Yeshivah College, Melbourne, employee David Cyprys (pictured) will learn his fate on Friday when he is sentenced for a string of child sexual abuse charges dating back to the late 1980s.
By adam kamien
December 13, 2013, 12:00 am
Rabbi Glick stood down amid Yeshivah abuse claims
YESHIVAH College (Melbourne) educator and spiritual leader Rabbi Avrohom Glick has been stood down by the school amid claims he sexually assaulted a student in the 1970s.
By adam kamien
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