Code of Silence Sexual Abuse in the Jewish Community (documentary)
Code of Silence follows the parallel journeys of a fervently Orthodox Jewish father and his nowsecular son, after the son Manny breaks the code of silence in Melbournes Orthodox community and goes public with his story of being sexually abused as a school student. Manny Waks claims he was abused by an Orthodox Jewish security guard, who also taught boys karate, at the Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne. Now Manny is demanding his abuser be brought to justice, and the rabbis and Chabad leaders who tried to cover it up, are brought to account. His father Zephaniah joins forces with his son, but soon finds he has been virtually excommunicated for breaking an ancient Jewish law forbidding Jews from informing secular authorities about other Jews.
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