The Metropolitan Police has confirmed to Jewish News that an investigation, opened in December into allegations of sexual abuse by Golders Green rabbi Chaim Halpern against a young London woman, has now been closed. The 21-year-old woman took part in a Channel 12 Israeli TV programme in mid-November 2022. She told the TV journalists that Rabbi Chaim Halpern had…
DetailsA sexual assault victim claims that Orthodox rabbis offered her cash on behalf of her abuser after she turned to them for help. The young woman, who says she was assaulted from the age of 13, told the JC that she viewed the offer as “hush money”. She claims that one of the rabbis who…
DetailsThe trial of Malka Leifer, a former Haredi girls’ school principal accused of sexually abusing her students in Melbourne, commenced on Tuesday. Several preliminary hearings had earlier been held, and a Melbourne court deemed Leifer fit to stand trial. But it took until last September to set the Tuesday opening hearing session, which focused on…
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