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Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner
From left: Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner, Menachem Vorchheimer, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner. Photo: Peter Haskin
August 23, 2018, 12:01 am
A turning point for Yeshivah?
YESHIVAH publicly has finally apologised to child sexual abuse victims advocate Menachem Vorchheimer and in the same week has revealed that several letters alleging child sexual abuse, which were handed to police, were "simply frivolous and/or malicious".
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Tenser.
August 31, 2017, 12:01 am
Rabbi Telsner to stay
MORE than two years after Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner resigned from the Yeshivah Centre after admitting his conduct towards victims of child sexual abuse was not acceptable, he was officially given a new contract this week.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner.
April 20, 2017, 10:28 am
Police probe rabbi’s commission testimony
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is assessing an allegation that Yeshivah board member Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner knowingly gave false or misleading testimony at February’s hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner at the Royal Commission.
March 23, 2017, 12:00 am
Telsner still being paid ‘regular salary’
More than 18 months after Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner resigned as the Yeshivah Centre’s senior rabbi, admitting that his conduct towards child sexual abuse victims and their families was not in line with the values of Yeshivah, he is still being paid “his regular salary”.
December 16, 2016, 12:00 am
Yeshiva, Chabad boards urged to take action
The new boards of Yeshivah-Beth Rivkah Schools Ltd and Chabad Institutions Victoria Ltd were urged this week to “act decisively" in relation to the findings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
By Peter Kohn
Rabbi Shimshon Yurkowicz.
December 8, 2016, 12:00 am
Rabbi resigns from roof bodies
Malvern Chabad’s Rabbi Shimshon Yurkowicz has resigned from RCANZ and RCV after a complaint that he acted in a way that hurt victims of child sexual abuse.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner. Photo: AJN file
September 11, 2015, 12:00 am
Yeshivah split over Telsner
THE Yeshivah community has split in two over the resignation of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner. Photo: AJN file
September 3, 2015, 12:00 am
Rabbi Telsner resigns from Yeshivah
CHILD sexual abuse victims and communal leaders have welcomed the resignation of the Yeshivah Centre’s senior rabbi, who stood down on Tuesday, admitting that his conduct towards victims and their families has not be in line with the values of Yeshivah.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner. Photo: AJN file
July 26, 2015, 12:00 am
Confusion surrounds new Beth Din
WHEN is a new Beth Din not a new Beth Din? When it is launched online.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner. Photo: AJN file
March 26, 2015, 10:33 am
‘Rabbi told me not to go to civil authorities’
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Avrohom Glick.
February 26, 2015, 12:00 am
More leaders to quit following Rabbi Glick’s resignation
By Joshua Levi
February 5, 2015, 12:00 am
Commission told senior rabbis knew of abuse
By Joshua Levi
March 21, 2014, 12:00 am
Fury over rabbis support for anti-draft rally
TWO leading Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis have come under fire after they threw their support behind a gathering of ultra-Orthodox Melbourne Jews protesting new conscription laws in Israel that will force members of the Charedi community to serve in the army.
By adam kamien
May 30, 2013, 12:00 am
Beth Din bias slammed in court
A SUPREME Court of NSW justice has slammed three Australian rabbis and dismissed a beth din ruling, saying that the case was unfairly handled.
By Joshua Levi
Rabbi Zvi Telsner. Photo: AJN file
March 4, 2013, 12:00 am
‘Rabbi put us through torture’
A TOP Melbourne rabbi has come under fire for trying to have a student kicked out of school because his father ignored a rabbinical court.
By Joshua Levi
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