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'Elon had sex with male students'
Jerusalem Post
18 Febbraio 2010
Rabbinical
forum: Rabbi Moti Elon admitted to allegation made by more than one
personFormer
Yeshivat Hakotel head Rabbi Mordechai Elon had sexual relations with
male students in the past, a rabbinical forum that works to prevent
sexual abuse in the national-religious sector said in a statement
Wednesday.
The Takana forum held an emergency meeting Tuesday
night to discuss the allegations facing Elon, following an announcement
it posted Monday demanding Elon step down from all rabbinical, teaching
and community responsibilities and saying he was a threat to the public.
Rabbi
Yuval Cherlow, a member of Takana, told Army Radio Wednesday that Elon
had admitted to the acts during the emergency meeting, adding that the
rabbi’s confession was documented in the forum’s protocol. Cherlow said
that since the accusations against Elon had been made public, 10 other
students of the rabbi had filed complaints against him to the forum.
Wednesday’s
Takana statement addressed why the group had decided to post the
announcement on Monday, and said the incidents in question “can only be
described as of the most severe kind.”
The statement said that
after its founding in 2003, one of the first complaints Takana had
received was against Elon, dealing with allegations of “sexual
exploitation by a religious authority.” After the first complaints were
received, Elon was called in for a meeting with Takana and “swore that
he had overcome his problems and that the allegations were in the past
and there were no additional incidents,” the statement read.
The
forum received another complaint a year later, this one reportedly of a
more severe nature than the original, according to the statement.
Takana
said that when it looked into the new complaint, it dealt with
incidents “of a deliberate sexual nature carried out over an extended
period of time” that had allegedly taken place while the group was
holding discussions on the original allegations. The group said that
because it had then “lost all belief in the words of the rabbi, who
concealed these actions while the committee was discussing the original
complaint,” it had come to the conclusion that it was no longer fitting
for him to work as a religious teacher or counselor.
According to
the statement, the rabbi was then asked to leave his post as head of
the Jerusalem yeshiva and cancel a number of public appearances and
community roles. He later moved to Migdal in the North, citing health
problems.
Takana denied Wednesday that it had had any role in
Elon’s decision to move to Migdal four years ago.
The statement
said Elon “has not fulfilled [the] obligations he agreed to” – in
particular the requirement that he stay away from intimate, personal and
private meetings with people seeking his advice or religious counsel.
The statement said Takana had made the decision to go public with the
allegations “because they saw no other way to protect the public from
possible harm in the future.”
Elon has publicly denied all of the
allegations against him and said they derived from one “seriously
disturbed” student, adding that the charges constitute “a blood libel,
but I am happy that the truth is beginning to emerge.”
Takana
chairman Yehudit Shilat told The
Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that claims of the allegations being
solely the result of a single disgruntled student or someone with a
personal vendetta against the rabbi were “absolutely false.”
Shilat,
who said she hadn’t slept over the past 55 hours, would not comment on
the number of complaints received against Elon, nor the severity of
them, saying the organization still needed more time to determine how
many of them had any basis.
According to the statement posted by
Takana Wednesday, the group had initially been reluctant to publicize
the matter, in order to “protect the complainants.” Shilat said this had
been to protect the privacy of the plaintiffs’ families, a desire that
was later outweighed by the public security concerns that prompted the
posting of Monday’s announcement.
Shilat said that the
publication of the allegations had been met by “sadness and anger” in
the national-religious community, but the organization’s principal
concerns were for the Torah and the well-being of the public.
Following
publication of the allegations Tuesday, police issued a statement
saying that in October 2006, police received a letter from
then-attorney-general Menahem Mazuz, in which he instructed them not to
launch a criminal investigation into the allegations.
The
statement added that a senior assistant to the attorney-general, Yehuda
Weinstein, had told Takana that any new complaints or relevant
information must be handed over immediately to the police.
Source > JPost
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