History

Our Mission

Tzedek was founded in December 2012 in response  to
numerous cases alleging serious child sexual abuse and subsequent cover-ups within various Jewish community institutions throughout Australia.

Due to rapid development within Australia (including the ongoing Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse), it was considered most appropriate to establish an independent organisation to respond to this issue.

To prevent child sexual abuse by:

• raising awareness and creating a cultural change in relation to child sexual abuse;
• educating the community including children, parents and organisations; 
• empowering  members of the Jewish  community to be able to prevent, recognise and address child sexual abuse for themselves and others.
• assisting and supporting the victims/survivors of child sexual abuse within the Jewish community and their families with counselling, support groups and other services
• advocating for survivors