BALTIMORE (MD)
The Baltimore Sun
March 2, 2018
By Alison Knezevich
Many in Baltimore’s Orthodox Jewish community thought the case against Rabbi Steven Krawatsky was closed.
A 7-year-old boy at a summer camp in Adamstown had accused the popular teacher of sexual abuse, and he was suspended from his job at the private Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School in Pikesville. Two other boys later came forward with similar allegations. Frederick County prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to charge Krawatsky, and by early 2016, “Rabbi K” was back in the classroom, teaching Judaic studies to middle school students.
So it came as a shock in January when Beth Tfiloh fired Krawatsky and banned the 40-year-old father of four from the campus where he worked for nearly 15 years.
There had been no new allegations. Instead, school officials cited explosive details from the three cases published in January by a Jewish newspaper in New York.
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