Before that, he’d headed a school on Long Island and worked in day schools in Texas.
Rabbi Adelman was appointed as head of school at TABC, in 2020. Lovy and others to wonder whether a tendency in some parts of the Orthodox world to downplay or ignore allegations of sexual abuse might be changing. The response to the allegations against Rabbi Walder caused Mr. (Rabbi Walder died by suicide last month.) After a Brooklyn bookstore owner announced that he would no longer sell Rabbi Walder’s work, a cascade of action against him followed. In recent months, attention to how allegations of abuse are handled in Orthodox communities has only grown stronger, with the response to a Haaretz investigation that leveled accusations against Chaim Walder, a popular charedi children’s book author. That was after “the conclusion of a thorough and independent investigation” and “consultation with counsel and a panel comprised of a local, highly respected rabbinic scholar and known experts in the fields of mental health and child welfare,” Azi Mandel, the president of the school’s board of directors, wrote in an email to parents at the time. The school returned him to his position in October. The school placed him on leave for the start of the school year while a law firm it had recruited to conduct an investigation completed its work.
Through his lawyer, Rabbi Adelman denied the allegation in the lawsuit. Details about it and other lawsuits garnered attention after the window to sue closed in August. The lawsuit was filed in July 2021 under New York State’s Child Victims Act, which reopened the statute of limitations to allow victims of sexual abuse to sue their alleged abusers. According to the suit, Rabbi Adelman was a counselor in a bunk near Mr. According to the lawsuit, Adelman was accused of molesting Joseph Kastner at Camp Rogen Avraham in upstate New York in 1990. Rabbi Adelman had been placed on paid leave in September amid public revelations that a lawsuit had been filed against him alleging child sex abuse more than 30 years earlier. “The students and parents of TABC deserve a Head of School who is not distracted by outside issues and, at this time, I cannot make the full-time commitment that the job requires and that the Yeshiva deserves.”Ī screenshot of the email was shared by Asher Lovy, an advocate for victims of sexual abuse in the Orthodox community.
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“Unfortunately, over the past six months, because of issues in my personal life, I have found myself unable to devote my full attention to my duties at TABC,” Rabbi Adelman wrote in the letter.
Get The Jewish Standard Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories The email, which came from the school’s board and included a lengthy note from Rabbi Adelman, did not directly address the allegations or the investigation that the school said it had conducted before returning him to his role.
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