Rabbi Feldman

Sydney Rabbi Pinchus Feldman tells royal commission he is ‘not familiar’ with child protection policies

A Jewish leader has admitted to a royal commission he was not across the detail of his organisation’s child protection principles.

Leader of Bondi’s Yeshiva Centre Rabbi Pinchus Feldman told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he was “not familiar” with the policies.

The commission heard the centre, which comprises a synagogue, a bath house and a youth group, had “unclear” policies on child protection.

The Bondi centre and Yeshivah Centre Melbourne are part of the ultra-orthodox Jewish movement, Chabad-Lubavitch, which was rocked by child sex abuse claims that emerged from the royal commission’s initial inquiry into the organisations in 2015.

Read the full article by Rachel Browne at The Sydney Morning Herald.