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Old July 9th, 2018 #42
Stewart Meadows
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They allowed him to keep working with young boys

Last week’s investigative report in these pages focused on Rabbi Steven (Shmuel) Krawatsky, the Baltimore educator alleged to have sexually abused three young boys in his charge at a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2015. But the subtext of staff writer Hannah Dreyfus’ deeply reported account is the continuing failure of our organizations and institutions to deal effectively with child abuse on a communal level.
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An air of complicity hovers over some of the Baltimore Orthodox community’s leaders who, aware of serious allegations against Rabbi Krawatsky, not only allowed him to continue working with children every day, but proclaimed his innocence until the very end — and perhaps beyond.

Even after The Jewish Week article was published, the educational director of the Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, where the rabbi taught Judaic studies in the middle school, issued a statement that appeared to support the rabbi.
http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/...-bad-mistakes/