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Australian court awards $800,000 in damages to former student abused at Australian Jewish school

Manny Waks was the first victim of David Cyprys to sue his abuser directly.

By Marcy Oster February 19, 2020 2:49 pm

Senior Orthodox rabbis resign in wake of Australia’s sex abuse probe

The Royal Commission spent two weeks probing how rabbis and senior officials responded to the child sex abuse scandal at Chabad institutions in Melbourne and Sydney.

February 16, 2015 6:21 am

Dan Goldberg, JTA’s Australia correspondent, wins award for sex abuse film

Goldberg and director Danny Ben-Moshe won the 2013 Walkley Documentary Award for “Code of Silence,” which documents the investigation into allegations of child sex abuse at a yeshiva for boys in Melbourne.

December 8, 2014 11:02 am