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| Wednesday, March 12, 2003 |
 Abusing the system: Recent happenings regarding abuse by Orthodox rabbis continue to beg the question of how the scandal might be brought to an end. First, Rabbi Mordechai Willig, who led a rabbinic court that failed to find Rabbi Baruch Lanner guilty of sexual abuse in 1990 (though Lanner was convicted earlier this year in a New Jersey court) apologized to a few of his more vocal accusers, although he failed to address any remorse to the victims. Then, an article in a student newspaper this week revealed allegations of improper conduct by a rabbi at Yeshivat Derech Etz Chaim in Israel. The rabbi was the subject of allegations of abuse in California in 1983, but was allowed to avoid criminal proceedings in exchange for a promise not to involve himself in education in the future. The article, however, did not name the rabbi or discuss the specific allegations made against him, failing an opportunity to warn the Jewish community about him.
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