In the Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday, Judge Chana Lomp is scheduled to hand down her ruling on Malka Leifer's mental fitness to face the hearing seeking her extradition from Israel to Australia to face 74 charges of alleged child sexual abuse.
In the Jerusalem District Court Judge Chana Lomp has accepted the request by Malka Leifer's legal team to allow them to bring two of the psychiatrists that they previously brought in testify on Leifer's behalf in order to hear their views on the most recent psychiatric panel's decision.
In a meeting with Dassi Ehrlich, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper, three sisters who have accused Malka Leifer of sexual abuse while the three were her students, Rabbi David Stav, Chairman and founder of Tzohar, expressed the organization’s full support for the sisters’ campaign to have Leifer extradited back to Australia to stand trial for her alleged crimes.
The ongoing saga in the legal stoush to extradite Malka Leifer from Israel to Melbourne where she faces 74 charges of child sexual abuse continues in a Jerusalem court without the accused and in a closed court.
JNFNSW, in collaboration of the Jewish House and The Australian Jewish News, raised awareness for victims of child sexual abuse and support for the Association of Rape Crisis Centres in Israel.
ABC has published in its Corrections and Clarification despatch that the broadcaster accepts Rabbi Feldman was aware it is illegal for an adult to touch a child's genitals.
The Yeshivah in Melbourne and the Yeshiva in Sydney will have their current policies regarding children protection reviewed during a The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse public hearing in February
Billed as a night for reflection, understanding, healing and regret, Silent No More is Melbourne's Yeshivah Centre's response towards the widespread child sexual abuse which has existed in the school system since the 1980s.
The Rabbinical Council of Victoria Inc (RCV) has just launched its Child Protection Policy Program in Shules in partnership with Australian Childhood Foundation.
The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies has established a Task Force on Child Protection that will focus on the welfare of children in communal institutional settings.
Rabbi James Kennard, principal of Mount Scopus Memorial College in Melbourne has issued a statement on the current hearing at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
