In order to speak no 'evil,' haredi mouthpiece Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblum refuses to see or hear the facts of haredi child abuse. But Michael Lesher doesn't let Rosenblum get away with it.
Michael Lesher writes:
Jonathan Rosenblum’s recent attempt to wish away child sex abuse allegations in Ramat Beit Shemesh (“Think Again: Those Primitive Haredim – Yet Again,” Jerusalem Post, June 11, 2009 ) is so full of false assumptions and disingenuous gibes aimed at anyone audacious enough to challenge Orthodox rabbis on the issue (critics just don’t like the haredim, he suggests, even when the critics are themselves haredim) that no short response can do justice to them all.
But the greatest evil of his column lies less in what he says than in what he doesn’t say.…
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Photo: Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblum.