(JTA) — Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi called for victims of sexual abuse to bring complaints to the “relevant authorities,” saying “there is an obligation to complain to the authorities in charge of ...

Allegations of child sexual abuse against Chaim Walder, the author of children’s books beloved in the haredi Orthodox market, and the uncharacteristically swift and harsh community response, have left ...

Members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community are at odds after an elementary school principal in Brooklyn encouraged parents not to engage with their kids about sex abuse allegations involving a ...

(JTA) — On Friday morning, most of the people bustling through Beit Shemesh, a town in central Israel with a large haredi Orthodox population, were getting ready for Shabbat. Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll ...

(JTA) — Chaim Walder, an Israeli haredi Orthodox children’s book author who was accused last month of sexual abuse by several teenage girls, was found dead Monday in an apparent suicide. His body was ...

Hasidic school children in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Anyone reading this has already read more than they wish to about the Chaim Walder tragedy. I have read at least a few dozen ...

“There is an obligation to complain to the authorities in charge of these issues, and not hide it,” Lau said in a statement. (JTA) — Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi called for victims of sexual abuse ...