Chief Rabbi’s son rapped for tribute to Australian yeshiva sex abuse scandal rabbi

He said the 2015 public inquiry, a Royal Commission, had heard from a former Melbourne Yeshiva principal who said Rabbi Groner would have today regretted his failure to act on the allegations.

Both Cyprys and Kramer were jailed in 2013 for multiple offences against boys at the Chabad-run school in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Rabbi Mirvis’s decision to speak at the yahrzeit led to anger online.

“Rabbi Groner was undoubtedly of the old school mentality that abuse could be handled ‘in house’ and that he would personally be able to oversee the rehabilitation of serial paedophiles or abusive husbands,” one member of the community, Shimon Walles, wrote on Facebook.

“This I believe is what needs to be remembered on Rabbi Groner’s Yahrzeit. How are we changing our attitudes towards victims and abuse?”

But Rabbi Mirvis told the JC: “My decision to speak at the event has been met, both before and after, with overwhelming communal support in Melbourne, including from individuals impacted by the findings of the Royal Commission.”

And Mizrachi President Danny Lamm said he “totally” supported Rabbi Mirvis’s decision to participate.

“I myself attended the event honouring the memory of one of Melbourne Jewry’s greatest leaders,” Dr Lamm said.