Activists and observers say much work remains to counter sex abuse and the culture of silence in the ultra-Orthodox community and its media: 'I think the dust hasn't settled yet'
Kanievsky was a hugely influential leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Haredi community, with hundreds of thousands of followers; politicians laud 'one of the generation’s greats'
Very quickly, the haredi world realized that it was unwise to protect Walder. Rabbi Meiselman, a descendant of the Brisker dynasty, turned Walder into a non-haredi.