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Manny Waks was born on 10 April, 1976 in Israel, is an Australian activist. Discover Manny Waks's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

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Occupation Community activist
Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 10 April, 1976
Birthday 10 April
Birthplace Israel
Nationality Israel

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1976

Menachem Leib "Manny" Waks (born 1976) is an Australian activist.

He was previously part of the Orthodox Jewish community in Australia and later became known for his activism against child sexual abuse in the Jewish community worldwide.

He founded Tzedek, an organisation to fight child sexual abuse in Jewish communities.

Waks assisted the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in investigating Melbourne Yeshivah centre of the Orthodox Chabad movement of Judaism on their handling of child sexual abuse cases.

After publicising child sexual abuse in the Jewish community in Australia, Waks moved to France.

He is the father of three children.

Born Menachem Leib Waks in Israel, Waks was raised primarily in Australia.

He is one of 17 children born to Orthodox Jewish parents, Zephaniah (formerly Stephen) and Hava, who were part of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish Hasidic community in Melbourne.

One of his younger brothers is controversialist Avi Yemini.

Before they were eventually ostracised for reporting child sexual abuse within the community, the Waks family were viewed as a "poster family for the Australian Chabad movement."

Waks returned to Israel when he turned 18, where he served in the Israel Defense Forces.

After returning to Australia from his service in the IDF, he obtained a degree in International Relations.

He completed internships with a federal parliamentarian and the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney.

1980

In the late 1980s Waks attended Melbourne's Yeshivah centre, run by the Chabad ultra-orthodox movement of Judaism.

Starting at the age of eleven, he was sexually abused by two members of the staff at the centre.

At the time, the only person he confided in was reportedly a classmate, who shared the information with other students.

"It was an additional source of ridicule," Waks said.

1996

Waks reported sexual abuse by two different perpetrators to the Yeshivah leadership and to the police in 1996.

2003

Waks' family featured in the 2003 SBS documentary Welcome to the Waks Family.

2011

When no action was taken, Waks went public in 2011 with allegations against the abusers, and pressure to keep quiet.

2012

In 2012 he founded Tzedek, an Australia-based organisation advocating for a Jewish community free of child sexual abuse, after having brought his own experience of Child sexual abuse in Australia within the Jewish community into the public arena in July 2011.

2013

Both perpetrators were convicted of sex crimes in 2013.

Waks gave evidence at the Royal Commission that he received abusive emails including one from an executive of the Sydney Yeshivah centre reading "Just because a security guard molested you, don't blame Yeshivah... Get over it. I haven’t met a person yet with one nice word to say about you. Most people consider you a low life."

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that Yeshivah rabbis "railed against the whistleblowing Waks" and claimed that Waks and his father had "a vendetta against the centre."

In testimony before the Royal Commission a former manager and director both apologised to Waks and admitted that they should have prevented this.

As part of their effort to eliminate child sexual abuse in the Jewish community, Manny Waks and his father, Zephaniah Waks testified before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

As Zephaniah Waks shared evidence about the abuse of his sons, the president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, Rabbi Meir Shlomo Kluwgant, sent a text message to an editor of the Australian Jewish News accusing him of "destroying Chabad" and labelling him a "lunatic".

Kluwgant was cross-examined about whether he watched testimony by Zephaniah, initially stating under oath that he hadn't watched much of the testimony because he was preparing to go to hospital, before conceding that he had sent the text message about the testimony.

Kluwgant resigned the next week after child sexual abuse victims told him his position was "untenable."

Rabbi Moshe Gutnick was called to testify.

He said, "I believe the cover-ups and bullying and intimidation that has gone on ... represents the antithesis of the teachings of Chabad and Judaism and orthodoxy."

He acknowledged that the Orthodox Chabad community in Australia was guilty of covering up sex crimes committed in the community, and pressuring victims and their families not to report the crimes to the police.

Gutnick said that people reporting abuse were ostracized mosers ("informers").

He said "a culture of cover-up, often couched in religious terms, pervaded our thinking and our actions."

He said that rabbis in these situations had misused their power, and that anyone who insists a child sexual abuse victim should go first to a rabbi rather than the police is not doing so out of religious reasons but trying to "hush it up, to cover it up, to prevent the victim from finding redress. There is no doubt at all: Mesirah ['informing'] has no application whatsoever to instances of child sexual abuse. To use mesirah in this way is an abomination."

Gutnick also lamented that there was no formal training for rabbis on how to handle reported abuse.

Manny Waks said, "Today, Rabbi Moshe Gutnick restored my faith in ultra-Orthodox Judaism. For the first time ever the reform that is so critical seems much closer. Thank you Rabbi Gutnick. Hopefully the rest of the Orthodox Rabbinate will now follow suit. What an incredible day for justice."

2015

In 2015 Chabad's international leadership made overtures to Waks.

Waks says he was invited to meet with Chabad's director of operations, Rabbi Mendy Sharfstein, to discuss best practices in responding to allegations of abuse.

Waks is an advocate against child sexual abuse within the Jewish community.