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information with other students. "It was an additional source of ridicule," Waks said. Waks reported sexual abuse by two different perpetrators to the
Yeshivah leadership and to the police in 1996. When no action was taken, Waks went public in 2011 with allegations against the abusers, and pressure to keep quiet. Both perpetrators were convicted of sex crimes in 2013.
77:(born 1976) is an Australian activist. He was previously part of the Orthodox Jewish community in Australia and later became known for his activism against child sexual abuse in the Jewish community worldwide. He founded Tzedek, an organisation to fight child sexual abuse in Jewish communities. Waks assisted the
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s ("informers"). He said "a culture of cover-up, often couched in religious terms, pervaded our thinking and our actions." He said that rabbis in these situations had misused their power, and that anyone who insists a child sexual abuse victim should go first to a rabbi rather than the police is not
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In the late 1980s Waks attended
Melbourne's Yeshivah centre, run by the Chabad ultra-orthodox movement of Judaism. Starting at the age of eleven, he was sexually abused by two members of the staff at the centre. At the time, the only person he confided in was reportedly a classmate, who shared the
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As part of their effort to eliminate child sexual abuse in the Jewish community, Manny Waks and his father, Zephaniah Waks testified before the Royal
Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. As Zephaniah Waks shared evidence about the abuse of his sons, the president of the
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Waks gave evidence at the Royal
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Manny Waks said, "Today, Rabbi Moshe
Gutnick restored my faith in ultra-Orthodox Judaism. For the first time ever the reform that is so critical seems much closer. Thank you Rabbi Gutnick. Hopefully the rest of the Orthodox Rabbinate will now follow suit. What an incredible day for justice."
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within the Jewish community into the public arena in July 2011. In 2015, Chabad's international leadership made overtures to Waks. Waks says he was invited to meet with Chabad's director of operations, Rabbi Mendy
Sharfstein, to discuss best practices in responding to allegations of abuse.
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wrote that
Yeshivah rabbis "railed against the whistleblowing Waks" and claimed that Waks and his father had "a vendetta against the centre." In testimony before the Royal Commission a former manager and director both apologised to Waks and admitted that they should have prevented this.
123:. After returning to Australia from his service in the IDF, he obtained a degree in International Relations. He completed internships with a federal parliamentarian and the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney. Waks' family featured in the 2003
119:. Before they were eventually ostracised for reporting child sexual abuse within the community, the Waks family were viewed as a "poster family for the Australian Chabad movement." Waks returned to Israel when he turned 18, where he served in the
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Waks is an advocate against child sexual abuse within the Jewish community. In 2012 he founded Tzedek, an
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community in Australia was guilty of covering up sex crimes committed in the community, and pressuring victims and their families not to report the crimes to the police. Gutnick said that people reporting abuse were ostracized
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In 2015 Chabad's international leadership made overtures to Waks. Waks says he was invited to meet with Chabad's director of operations, Rabbi Mendy Sharfstein, to discuss best practices in responding to allegations of abuse.
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was called to testify. He said, "I believe the cover-ups and bullying and intimidation that has gone on ... represents the antithesis of the teachings of Chabad and Judaism and orthodoxy." He acknowledged that the Orthodox
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