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***CVA Suit Filed Against Camp Gan Israel. Rabbi Shmuel Posner and Motti Sandman Named as Alleged Abuers in Suit.***

 

In 1992 Plaintiff was 9 years old and was attending Gan Izzy sleepaway camp in Parksville, NY. According to the complaint, Shmuel Posner, then 17 and employed by Gan Izzy as a counselor of a neighboring bunk to Plaintiff’s, sensed Plaintiff’s vulnerability and began to groom him for sexual abuse. The complaint alleges that these overtures were masked in the guise of friendship. 

 

According to the complaint Posner began sitting on Plaintiff’s bed at bedtime to keep him company, at first stroking him over the covers but then eventually stroking the plaintiff under the covers. Later Posner escalated to touching plaintiff’s penis under his pajamas, and placing Plaintiff’s hand on his penis and using it to pleasure himself. In the complaint Plaintiff describes dreading nights at the camp, feigning sleep but being awake and panicked. Posner would allegedly wait until the other counselors had left and the lights were out and then make his way to Plaintiff’s bed to abuse him. 

 

According to the complaint there was no actual supervision of Posner even though the camp did employ an overnight director whose job it was to check in periodically on the bunks. Plaintiff alleges that he never saw the overnight director during the whole time he was being abused by Posner. The complaint further alleges that the counselor of his bunk actually did walk in on Posner abusing Plaintiff one night and rather than react he simply turned and ran out of the bunk. It doesn’t seem that this counselor reported what he saw. 

 

After Plaintiff returned home he told his father what had happened to him. According to the complaint, Plaintiff’s father confronted the camp director about the abuse and urged him to implement policies to prevent such abuse from happening in the future. Despite this warning from plaintiff’s father, the director allegedly did nothing to update Gan Izzy’s protection policies, and instead covered up the allegation. The complaint alleges that no parents were notified about the alleged abuse, and counselors were still allowed to have unrestricted access to campers with no supervision. 

 

In the summer of 1994 Plaintiff returned to Gan Izzy. He was now 11 years old. In 1993 his father had died and he was still grieving. That summer his counselor was Motti Sandman. According to the complaint, one night when the campers were sleeping in sleeping bags near a camp bonfire Sandman approached Plaintiff while he was sleeping and started stroking his hand. He then allegedly moved to stroking Plaintiff’s genitals under his pajamas for a brief time. 

 

The complaint alleges that Sandman began escalating the abuse, one night approaching Plaintiff while he was sleeping on a top bunk and putting his finger in Plaintiff’s anus. He then allegedly began climbing the ladder to join Plaintiff in the top bunk, but Plaintiff, terrified, pushed him away. 

 

Excerpts of the complaint as well as pictures of the alleged abusers are included below. 

 

Link to full complaint: 

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=lUcrhVbdHdDt21slhuzOpA==

 

A third-party complaint has also been filed by Gan Izzy against Posner and Sandman claiming that they are solely responsible for the abuse and that Gan Izzy should not be held responsible. 

 

Link to third-party complaint: 

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=6QDL3zT1FCOgpx1REl9j1Q==

Is It Time For The Australian Government And The Jewish Community To Overthrow Chabad Leadership?

"…I believe the time has come where serious consideration needs to be given by the broader Jewish community and government as to whether it is appropriate for [Chabad] Yeshivah to continue under its current administration and in its current form. It is easy to forget amid all this chaos that victims are still hurting and seeking justice by way of holding to account those trustees who remain in power, and that the safety of children within the school is paramount. I concur with another [Chabad] Yeshivah victim who recently said publicly that he does not believe that safety can be guaranteed in the environment that currently exists. I would urge the community to give serious consideration to forcing the trustees to hand the [Chabad] Yeshivah Centre over to capable and independent trustees who can administer the Centre professionally until such time as the community has developed the appropriate structures to have it back. Ultimately it’s the safety and wellbeing of our children – past and present – that we are dealing with. And this must always come first."

Chabad's International Leadership Tells Local Chabad Leaders In Melbourne That Democracy And True Power Sharing Are Forbidden

Did you believe Chabad's frequent claims to the press that each official Chabad center is a truly independent franchise? A new letter written to Chabad trustees in Melbourne, Australia by Chabad's organizational head Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky and the 1973 memo from his predecessor included with it should dispel that notion. But perhaps more importantly, the new Krinsky letter refers to the ongoing Chabad child sex abuse scandal in Melbourne this way: "We also acknowledge the severe difficulties you [Chabad trustees] have been going through for over a year and the aggravation and turmoil that have engulfed the entire Chabad community of Melbourne." There is not one word of consolation for the victims of the child sex abuse and not one word or regret for how the original complaints of child sex abuse were handled.

 

Chabad And Haredi Rabbis Ban Rabbi Meir Rabi's Ben Pakuah Meats

What the Geonim permitted the far lesser rabbis of Chabad and Australia's version of Edah Haredit have banned. But don't worry. Even though ben pakuah meat would have dropped the price of kosher meat dramatically, these rabbis have your best interests at heart. And you can be assured of that because they they say so.

Chabad In Melbourne Announces New Organization Scheme

Chabad in Melbourne, Australia has released what it says will be its new organizational structure and the methods of electing or appointing the people who will be the lay leaders of Chabad institutions there. A close look seems to show that the disgraced old guard will still easily be able to control everything behind a razor thin veneer of very limited democracy.

Where Does All The Money Go? Why Does It Cost So Much Money To Be Jewish?

"…[H]igh prices are not a given. There are many things that can improve the affordability of Jewish living. First, there needs to be greater cost transparency.…[I]ncredibly, the London Board of Shechita cannot provide any data or explanation as to why the price of kosher meat has [so dramatically] risen over time.…"

Federal Court Rules Against 'Mainstream' Chabad Faction

“…For the foregoing reasons, the Court dismisses Merkos’s counterclaims. This memorandum and order, in conjunction with the Court’s grant of summary judgment to Merkos on Vaad’s appeal of the TTAB’s decision, disposes of all the claims brought in this case. The Court hopes that the parties and the Chabad Lubavitch community can now put an end to litigation over the Rebbe’s passing, and let the Rebbe rest—even if only physically—in peace.”

Death Certificate Of Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Up For Auction

A death certificate for the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson is being auctioned by Virtual Judaica. Schneerson died in 1994 at age 92 after suffering a series of strokes. The current high bid is $1,200.

The Brainwasher

"…The first inclination of many observers is to label young people who seek out nativist causes like ISIS or the Hilltop Youth as “crazy,” “lunatics,” or “hormone-laden kids.” But behind this perceived lunacy is a certain philosophy, or a general tendency, that we can trace back to leaders who either taught fundamentalist and nativist philosophies or whose teachings have been interpreted to support violence and terror. One such leader affiliates with the Chabad movement in Israel. His name is Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, and many Hilltop Youth attended the yeshiva Od Yosef Chai [which he founded and] where he serves as president…”

Chabad Rabbi Aryeh Leib “Larry” Dudovitz Gets 8 Years For Child Sex Assault

Dudovitz has struggled with “fighting homosexual urges — not sexual predator urges,” his attorney told the court, echoing – perhaps unknowingly – the position of the late Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who allegedly attributed cases of child sex abuse to latent homosexual tendencies and told at least some Chabad rabbis not to report child sex abusers to police.

Zionist Orthodox Soldier From “Haredi” IDF Unit Sentenced To Almost 4 Years For Espionage Against The IDF

A Zionist Orthodox IDF soldier, Corporal Elad Sela, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison yesterday for leaking classified IDF operational plans to extremist West Bank Jewish settlers.

Parents And Their Supporters Ask Chabad Leaders For Transparency In Open Letter Made Necessary By Chabad's Refusal To Honor Its Promise Of Same

The independent group of parents and their supporters that helped bring resignations of many Chabad lay and rabbinic leaders who covered up child sex abuse (or supported those leaders who did so) have asked Chabad's Melbourne Yeshivah Centre trustees for transparency, transparency Chabad promised months ago. But the group, PFYM, had to ask for this transparency in an open letter to the entire local Chabad community because Chabad leadership has consistently refused to answer private correspondence from PFYM or provide any real transparency at all. That stonewalling began in earnest just after lead abuse victim Manny Wax agreed to promote Chabad's efforts at 'reconciliation' with abuse victims – efforts that do not include reconciliation with the advocates, supporters (like PFYM) parents and other family members of those victims.

Prosecutors Release Some – But Not All – Of The Evidence In The Murder Of Chabad Rabbi Joseph Raksin

Deandre Charles' DNA may have been on Chabad Rabbi Joseph Raksin's right sleeve. But will that at this point limited and seemingly weak DNA evidence along with a seemingly shaky ID be enough to convict him?

Zionist Orthodox And Chabad Missionary Proselytizing In Israeli State Secular Public Schools Prompts Call To Ban The Proselytizing, Launch New Truly Secular Public Schools

Chabad-Lubavitch hasidim regularly visit secular elementary schools and hand out fliers on the importance of observing Shabbat. A parent fought against this and the Education Ministry told her in response that no promotional literature should be distributed without its approval. But that is reportedly the Education Ministry's standard response to parental complaints about Chabad-Lubavitch activity in schools, and there is no evidence the Education Ministry has done anything to stop these visits from recurring.

Chabad's Melbourne Yeshivah Centre's Board Of Trustees Explains Why 6 Months Wasn't Long Enough To Hold New Elections

It's almost a year since the Royal Commission exposed decades of child sex abuse and coverups at Chabad's Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Chabad promised Yeshivah Centre restructuring, which was due to be completed by last week at the latest. But it still isn't finished. And that may be because some of the worst offenders – at least in terms of nepotism and abuse coverups – are still in power, as a new letter from the centre's board of trustees shows.

Chabad’s Leaders, Due To Resign Over Child Sex Abuse Scandal, Now Say They’re Not Ready To Go

In the wake of the Royal Commission’s investigation into the decades-long child sex abuse scandal at Chabad’s Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia, Chabad announced in June that new constitution for the center and its related organizations would be written and that all trustees and members of the center’s interim committee of management (ICOM) would down by December 31. But now they won’t.

A Cult Of Death And Shame

“What you’re saying…reminds me of what I heard recently about [supreme Ashkenazi non-hasidic haredi rabbinical leader Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman]. Some of the big [rabbis] were protesting the fact that he didn’t object to the founding of the Nahal Haredi army unit for young men who were already off the derech and on the streets. Rav Steinman asked one of these [rabbis] if anyone had come to him yet to ask him to daven that their son should die. ‘This week, 15 fathers came to me with this request regarding their sons who had gone completely off the derech,’ [Steinman said.]….

Chabad's Rabbi Manis Friedman Allegedly Compares Being OTD To Being A Drug Addict Who Must Be Kept Away From Children

"…During one of our conversations you told me that if I choose not to believe in what my parents believe and live another lifestyle, then in your own words I should "stay away" and that it’s their (my family’s) right to believe what they want and that I don’t belong in their home with my beliefs. When I asked if it’s right that just because I’m not frum that I shouldn’t see my siblings you asked me “would you let your son who is on drugs into your own home?” I ask you now, have you ever thought about how such a comparison can make someone feel? Did you ever imagine what it feels to be told by one of the most influential rabbis in Chabad today that I am the equivalent of a drug addict and that I should stay away from my family because of my beliefs?…"

Video: Dov Shurin Sings His Racist Pro-Jewish-Terrorists Song In Chabad's Main Synagogue

Dov Shurin singing the racist pro-Jewish-terrorist song he composed, Zochreini Na, in Chabad's main synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York on March 21, 2012. Note that Shurin sings the biblical verse his music was composed to with one word changed. The biblical verse talks about killing Philistines, but Shurin sings about killing Palestinians. Zochreini Na is the song that the Hilltop Youth were dancing to as at a wedding they celebrated, with machine guns and knives waved in the air, the arson-murders of a Palestinian baby and his parents in a Jewish terror attack in the West Bank Palestinian village of Douma (Duma).

The Dance Of Hate And Terror

"…Since the 'wedding of hate' was broadcast, pundits have been labelling the dancers 'JudeoDaesh' [Judeo-ISIS] and apologists have been explaining how they’re basically poor deluded dropouts who found a home on the hilltops and have been radicalized by seeing their friends murdered in Palestinian terror attacks. Both approaches are disingenuous. This is not a freak mutation of Judaism or a symptom of a sociological problem. And while they are a minority on the fringes of both the political and religious spectra, they are still a part of mainstream Israeli society, a natural outcropping of our failure to recognize how the occupation of another nation has ultimately eaten away at out moral values. It’s much too easy to be shocked at these vile creatures from another world. [But] they’re not that far away.…"

Orthodox Jewish Wedding Songs Endorse Jewish Terrorism, Incitement To Violence, Rabbi Says

"…One need not be a great Torah commentator to understand that the words, originally said in despair, express a readiness to be killed, if, by our deaths, many Palestinians will die with us.…"

Video: Right-Wing Zionist Orthodox Yeshiva Students Rejoice At Murder Of Arab Baby

Video of right-wing Zionist Orthodox West Bank settler yeshiva students dancing and rejoicing at the arson-murder – allegedly carried out by Jewish settlers – of an 18-month-old Palestinian baby and his parents in the Palestinian village of Douma (Duma) in July. The settlers are seen dancing, waving knives and even a molotov cocktail and machine guns at a wedding.

Silent No More: Video Of Chabad's Melbourne Meeting Held To Respond To Its Child Sex Abuse Scandal

Complete video of a community event hosted by Chabad's Melbourne, Australia Yeshivah Centre in response to its child sexual abuse scandal. Speakers included former Yeshivah College Principal Rabbi Avrohom Glick, Yeshivah victim turned Victim Advocate Manny Waks, ASCA President Dr Cathy Kezelman, US-based Rabbi YY Jacobson and two other Yeshivah victims/survivors.

Chabad’s Rabbi Diamond Joe Gutnick Loses Multimillion Dollar Lawsuit

Gutnick used fraud and misrepresentation to trick a large multinational company, and now he personally owes more than $28 million plus interest – which will be substantial.

Right-Wing West Bank Jewish Settlers Riot In Jerusalem

Hundreds of people, many of them extreme right-wing West Bank Jewish settlers and their sympathizers, including members of Kahanist organizations and several Chabad messianists, rioted in Jerusalem Sunday night to protest what they claim is the torture by Israel’s internal security service (commonly known as the Shabak or the Shin Bet) of three detainees suspected of the arson-murders of three members of a West Bank Palestinian family in July.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Chabad Daughter Moves To Controversial Über-Haredi Neighborhood

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Chabad daughter, 36-year-old Noa Roth, and her family have moved to the über-haredi Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim.

Chabad Continues To Stonewall Parents Group

Parents and Friends of Chabad's] Yeshivah Melbourne (PFYM) is the group of parents and supporters who helped force change in Chabad leadership in Melbourne, Australia as Chabad's misbehavior and its coverups of child sex abuse were made public in the Royal Commission. But despite promises of transparency and cooperation, Chabad is now completely stonewalling (PFYM), as this latest example shows.

Video: Crown Heights Shmira Patrol Illegally Uses Police Lights And Sirens To Block Manhattan Traffic For Chabad Hanukkah Car Parade

There were dozens and dozens of cars, most of which had their license plates covered so they couldn't be read and reported. Crown Heights Shmira street patrol members in SUVs illegally used police lights and sirens to block traffic. And the NYPD did absolutely nothing to stop it while it was happening and refuses to answer questions about this illegal behavior afterward.

Teen Accused In Chabad Rabbi's Murder Allegedly Seen Holding Semi-Automatic Assault Rifle

Law enforcement sources believe a photo shows Deandre Charles holding a semi-automatic weapon.  Charles allegedly murdered Rabbi Yosef Raksin with a single bullet fired from a semi-automatic weapon like the one shown in the photo.

Everybody’s Welcome At Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters – Unless They’re From The Wrong Chabad Faction…Or A Transvestite

“You homo, I’m going to cut off your schmeckle!” A transvestite who makes frequent guest appearances on the Howard Stern Show was standing outside Chabad-Lubavitch’s main synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York Saturday night when he was confronted by a hasid who assaulted him in a repeat hate crime.

President Obama A Nazi Anti-Semite Muslim, Country Yossi Mag Columnist Says

Another haredi publication has equated US President Barack Obama with the Nazis and called him a "Muslim and a stone cold anti-Semite" who  "hates Jews and hates America" and who won't be satisfied "until the flag of Islam flies over the White House."

Another Post On Chabad's Straight-Armed Menorah

The idea that something found that dates to the era when the Jerusalem was controlled by Christians and pagans, an era in which Jews were almost always banned from living in the city, could somehow prove something about a Temple that was destroyed hundreds of years earlier is bizarre. But that is exactly the claim some Chabad hasidim are making.

High Court Panel Lashes Out At Racist Rabbinic Book, But Then Chooses Not To Order Its Authors Indicted For Incitement To Racism And Violence

A three-justice panel of Israel’s High Court of Justice slammed Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein and police for their tepid and incompetent investigation of the authors of the notoriously racist book Torat HaMelech (The King’s Torah), lashed out the book for its overt racism, and then proceeded to deny a petition filed by various anti-racism NGOs asking that the book’s authors, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur – the two top students of extremist Chabad Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh – be criminally charged with incitement to violence and racism.

Does Chabad Mistranslate The Torah And Misrepresent Rabbinic Opinions In Order To Promote Its Last Rebbe As the Messiah?

For a Jewish religious group to intentionally misrepresent or mistranslate a biblical text is an awful thing. Artscroll has done this, most infamously with its translation of the text of Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs). But Chabad has done something arguably worse – it misrepresents centuries of rabbinic opinions, known history and the mistranslates the Torah itself, all in a quest to promote its late rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (d. 1994) as the messiah.

15-Year-Old Arrested For Murder Of Chabad Rabbi

15-year-old Deandre Edwin Charles has been arrested for the 2014 murder of Chabad Rabbi Yosef Raksin. Charles was only 14 when he went on a robbery spree in the North Miami Beach area. On Saturday August 9 he saw Raksin, who was walking to synagogue on Shabbat morning.

What Did That Menorah Look Like, Anyway? Why Chabad's Late Rebbe Was Completely And Totally Wrong

The late rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, insisted the Temple menorah had straight branches coming out from its trunk at sharp angles. Schneerson's claim – which is not backed by any historical or archaeological evidence at all, has become a Chabad totem anyway – hence the strangely shaped giant menorahs Chabad uses on Hanukkah to represent "authentic Judaism" to the public. Here's proof Schneerson was completely, totally and spectacularly wrong.

Chabad's Child Sex Abuse "Redress" Doesn't Include Victims' Families And Supporters Harassed And Ostracized By Chabad

Chabad in Melbourne, Australia launched a "redress scheme" this week to help and compensate the many victims of child sex abuse at its Yeshivah Centre. But it turns out this attempt to apologize, help and compensate the victims of child sex abuse does not include apologizing to, helping or compensating those victims' families and the activists who fought to have the victims heard. These secondary victims were ostracized, harassed and even threatened, but Chabad is doing absolutely nothing to provide them with redress.

Melbourne Chabad Redress Plan For Its Child Sex Abuse Victims Launches

"…It is to the victims, those known to us and those we may never know, I say this: 'You were each entrusted to the care of The Yeshivah Centre. All of you were blameless. All of you were just children. Each and every one of you had the right to be protected and cared for. You had a right to feel safe. You had a right to be educated in an environment that enabled you to reach your full potential. In each of these respects, we let you down, in ways that we can never fully make up for. For the abuse you suffered while you were in our care, on behalf of myself personally and The Yeshivah Centre management and staff, both past and present, I am profoundly sorry.'”

Chabad Of Melbourne's Redress "Scheme" For Child Sex Abuse Victims Formally Announced

"…The Scheme has engaged Jewish Care Victoria to operate a confidential 1800 contact number for victims of abuse. This line will be operated by skilled social welfare professionals. A separate email address has also been established. All identifying information will remain strictly confidential to the Panel, the Jewish Care Victoria contact point and the third party administering payments. Details of any assessments or determinations made under the Scheme will not be provided to the Yeshivah Centre unless specifically requested by the applicant.…"

Chabad Launches Special Mitzvah Campaign For Palestinians Promoting 7 Laws Of Noah, Dead Rebbe As Messiah

100,000 signs displaying a picture of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson alongside the word "messiah" in Arabic would be printed and distributed. The signs, some as large as billboards, also have quotes from Schneerson’s letters that call for world peace to be achieved through observing the biblical commandments for Jews and the 7 Laws for everyone else. Hundreds of these posters have reportedly already been distributed near Arab neighborhoods and at construction sites (many construction workers are Arabs).

Senior Chabad Rabbi Asks Community To Stop Harassing Man And His Family

“…Rabbi Glick publicly, absolutely and definitively clears Menachem or his family of any wrong doing. Rabbi Glick calls on any and all parties connected with this situation, and the community generally, to immediately and for all time restore the good name of Menachem and the Vorchheimer family and to stop completely any and all negativity towards them.…”

Top Chabad Rabbi In Israel Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison On String Of Fraud Charges

Chabad’s Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Aronow stole millions of dollars from donations earmarked for Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl charity, a subsidiary of the Chabad Youth (Tzach) nonprofit Aronow headed. Chabad Youth serves as the central Chabad-Lubavitch organization in Israel, and (at least on paper) hundreds of Chabad emissaries in Israel work at its largess. Aronow also received almost $2 million in salary he failed to declare as income and used fraud to get large amounts of money from the Education Ministry – money Aronow then stole.

Racist Chabad Rabbi To Headline Yud Tet Kislev Event In Tel Aviv, Sparking Outrage

Extremist neo-Kahainist Chabad Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh is slated to be the major speaker at a Yud Tet Kislev (19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev) event Wednesday in Tel Aviv at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium (Hechal Hatarbut), a city-owned venue and is managed by a city-owned corporation, sparking outrage.

Son Of Mumbai Chabad House Terror Victims Wants To Return To India

Moshe Holtzberg wants to go home to India for a visit, seven years after his parents and four others were slaughtered by Islamic terrorists in their Mumbai Chabad House.

Chabad Announces "Redress Scheme" For Child Sex Abuse

Chabad's Yeshivah Center in Melbourne, Australia is offering a "scheme [which] will offer redress in the form of a direct personal response to the victims of abuse from Yeshivah, access to counselling and psychological care, and a monetary payment to recognise that sexual abuse should not have occurred. Receiving support under the scheme will not prejudice the individual’s rights to pursue any further legal action.…"

Ruled Non-Jewish 3 Years Ago By State-Employed Chabad Rabbinical Judge Later Accused Of Corruption And Fixing Divorces, Israeli Woman Decides To Fight Back Now For The Sake Of Her Newborn Daughter

“No convert can sleep peacefully in Israel. [All converts at any time can find themselves hauled into a haredi-controlled state rabbinical court and] interrogated about their lifestyle, and sometimes the conversion can be declared invalid. Now we see added to this circle the children of converts who were born and raised completely Jewish.”

Openness And Transparency? Not At Chabad In Melbourne

Parents and Friends of [Chabad's] Yeshivah in Melbourne (PFYM),the group that helped force Chabad's top Melbourne lay leaders to resign over Chabad's massive child sex abuse scandal, was promised full cooperation and transparency by the interim lay leaders appointed to manage Chabad. But instead of cooperation and transparency, Chabad's Interim Committee of Management (likely acting in concert with the supposedly ousted former CoM members and the rabbis who led Chabad's decades-long coverup of child sex abuse at its Melbourne Yeshiavah Centre) have completely stonewalled parents and activists even as Chabad was publicly claiming to be reaching out to its community members and working toward healing. But that reaching out, that claimed openness, seems to be just another in a very long line of Chabad PR stunts.

Chabad's Rabbi "Diamond Joe" Gutnick Claims To Be In Serious Financial Difficulty, Allegedly Won’t Be Able To Pay $55 Million Arbitration Award

Chabad's Rabbi Joseph "Diamond Joe" Gutnick, the Australian mining magnate with a history of questionable business behavior, is now claiming to be nearly destitute. But is that claim simply a ruse meant to help him avoid paying $55 million he owes to an Indian company?

Chabad's Yeshiva Centre To Hold Reconciliation Evening With Abuse Victims

Chabad's Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia – the locus of at least a dozen (and likely two to three times that) cases of child sex abuse covered up by Chabad – is holding an evening of reflection, understanding, healing and regret with a panel that include at least one of those victims, Manny Waks. The problem, it would seem, is that Chabad's harassment of victims is ongoing, and it's kind of hard to reflect, understand and heal while that is ongoing. The evening is important to Chabad, though, because just weeks afterward, the Royal Commission investigating the abuse and coverups at Chabad will release its report and recommendations, and the more repentant Chabad can seem, the less chance there is that those recommendations will include criminal charges against its rabbis.