Rabbi resigns after inquiry testimony

Sky News
February 11, 2015

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/02/11/rabbi-resigns-after-inquiry-testimony.html

The rabbi who told a child abuse royal commission there should be more leniency for repentant pedophiles has resigned from an organisation that runs Jewish schools.

Rabbi Yosef Feldman has issued an apology for comments during the Melbourne hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

He's resigned as a director of The Yeshiva Centre, including his administrative responsibilities.

There are Yeshiva schools in Melbourne and Sydney, and the royal commission is investigating their response to sexual abuse of several students in the 1980s and 1990s.