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Yeshiva University’s Norman Lamm resigns amid sex abuse scandal
http://www.religionnews.com/2013/07/01/yeshiva-universitys-norman-lamm-resigns-amid-sex-abuse-scandal/
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm photo courtesy Folksonomy via Wikimedia Commons
NEW YORK (RNS) The chancellor and head of the seminary at Yeshiva University, the flagship U.S. school for Orthodox Judaism, resigned his posts on Monday (July 1) and acknowledged that he had mishandled sex abuse allegations against staff members in the 1980s.
In a letter sent to students, faculty, alumni and donors, Rabbi Norman Lamm, 85, said that in failing to report the abuse complaints to police, he was acting “in a way that I thought was correct, but which now seems ill conceived.”
“I understand better today than I did then that sometimes, when you think you are doing good, your actions do not measure up,” wrote Lamm, for decades a leading figure in Orthodox Judaism.
“And when that happens — one must do teshuvah,” he said, using the Hebrew word for repentance. “So, I too must do teshuvah.”
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