Six months after a lawsuit claimed that he mishandled an allegation of sexual assault between campers at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, the camp’s former director, Rabbi Ethan Linden, has a new job. Linden began a role as director of educational operations and design for the Shalom Hartman Institute on Monday, the Jewish education nonprofit…
DetailsBritain’s incoming Parliamentary standards commissioner has called for all UK rabbis to be “properly regulated” as a safeguarding benchmark in the wake of the latest sexual assault allegations against Golders Green Rabbi Chaim Halpern. Barrister Daniel Greenberg told Jewish News: “It is very important that criminal allegations go to the police and nobody else. Rabbis,…
DetailsIsrael Police’s investigation into the sexual assault and rape allegations made against Rabbi Zvi Thau will be moved to Lahav 433, the National Crime Unit, as police prepare to take statements from other senior rabbis, KAN News reported on Thursday evening. According to KAN, several rabbis who are “familiar” with the accusations have agreed to…
DetailsCharges against Halpern were dropped after a nine-month investigation back in 2013 that saw his supporters arrested on charges of perverting the course of justice. Halpern, of the Divrei Chaim synagogue had earlier resigned his position of dayan with the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations but always maintained his innocence in the face of sexual…
DetailsDays after being released on bond following an arrest for child pornography offenses, Zev Steen was rearrested and slapped with new charges among them, rape and incest. The former STEM teacher at the all-girls Orthodox Jewish day school Bnos Yisroel in Baltimore was terminated from that position and let go of others he held in…
DetailsDeputy Education Minister Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) arrived in court earlier this week to request that an ultra-Orthodox teacher accused of physically abusing and sexually assaulting his students be allowed to attend a wedding.
A judge on Tuesday entered not guilty pleas on behalf of a rabbi accused of repeatedly raping and molesting a teenage boy who attended a school the rabbi founded and who was awarded $15 million in a civil lawsuit on those allegations.
Prosecutors in Israel indicted an education municipal official who was responsible for security at schools of possessing and disseminating child pornography.
NEW HAVEN — A prominent rabbi accused of repeatedly raping and molesting a teenage boy is set to make his first court appearance since being arrested last month.
The IDF Military Police Investigations Unit are investigating claims that a career non-commissioned officer (NCO) in a classified intelligence unit sexually harassed a female soldier serving under him, Yediot Ahronot reported Thursday.
