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is a former national editor of the Australian Jewish News. He currently writes for Haaretz as well as The Jewish Chronicle in Britain. He is also a TV producer and writer for an independent TV production company.

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• Melbourne Chabad rabbi steps down over handling of sex abuse scandal

  September 1, 2015 5:25pm

  Rabbi Tzvi Telsner in an open letter apologized for his conduct toward the child victims and their families.

• 4 senior staffers at Melbourne Chabad school resign amid molestation scandal fallout

  March 13, 2015 8:23am

  Following calls for resignations after three convictions, the Australian city’s Yeshivah Centre confirms resignation of former chairman and three others.

• Sydney rabbi removed as Chabad emissary over child sex abuse scandal

  February 22, 2015 6:03am

  Rabbi Yosef Feldman had told a commission looking into the abuse from the 1980s and ’90s that pedophiles who had not committed sex crimes for two decades should be treated with leniency.

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

  February 16, 2015 6:21am

  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.

• Senior rabbi of Sydney yeshiva resigns over testimony on sexual abuse

  February 12, 2015 6:43am

  Rabbi Yossi Feldman was slammed for saying he did not believe it appropriate for victims to go to the police if offenses took place decades prior.

• Australia begins hearings into child sex abuse at Chabad schools

  February 3, 2015 7:06am

  The government-sponsored inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse is focusing on the Yeshivah Center in Melbourne and Sydney for two weeks.

• Menorah honoring terror victims erected in Sydney

  December 19, 2014 7:14am

  Annual installation was postponed due to attack and came hours after Chabad cancelled its Hanukkah event.

• Sydney menorah lighting canceled following siege tragedy

  December 18, 2014 6:27am

  The public ceremony at Sydney’s Martin Place was canceled for the first time in nearly 30 years due to the deadly attack at a city cafe.

• Australian commission to probe how Chabad handled abuse claims

  December 17, 2014 7:59am

  Some of Australia’s most senior Orthodox rabbis have already been subpoenaed to supply documents ahead of the hearing starting Feb. 2 in Melbourne.

• Australian Jewish communities on lockdown amid Sydney hostage crisis

  December 15, 2014 7:08am

  The security agency for Australian Jewry raised the threat level in the Jewish community after an apparent Islamist gunman entered a cafe in downtown Sydney and took more than a dozen hostages.