This letter is apparently a continuation of the war against secular influences and makes no reference to the allegations of abuse or that the author committed suicide. It simply says his books are a bad influence apparently because he supposedly didn't get a proper yeshiva education. He says that rabbis have already prohibited them - but there is no mention of which rabbis I assume he is referring to the Eidah's ban. [see letter below which appeared in the summer.]
Yes, the print is not very clear
ReplyDeletebut the condemnation is
yes what was the condemnation - that he was a rapist or his books are a bad influence because he wasn't educated properly in yeshiva?
ReplyDeleteI see, your point.
ReplyDeletePresumably he doesn't wish to offend anyone in bnei brak. It has gone too far to sit on the fence though. Some still claim it was a set up. This is pretty clear the books should not be in frum houses. Why should he sully his letter by relating to what had actually happened?
> because he supposedly didn't get a proper yeshiva education.
ReplyDeleteSo this is the next excuse: Chareidim aren't bad. Oh, Walder? Well he wasn't really a very good Chareidi. What, we used zt'l for him? Must've been a typo.
If my memory serves me correctly, Walder tried to bring attention to abuse sometime between 2004 - 2010 and was condemned for it. He wrote in one of his books how a child wasn't doing well in school and turned out because he was abused .(touched in an inappropriate way) He encouraged children to talk about it with a parent or an adult if such a thing happened. This story got a lot of flack that children shouldn't be exposed to such information. wasn't a ztniot topic etc etc
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