Ephraim Padwa

Rabbi Ephraim Padwa is a senior haredi rabbi in London. He is rabbinical head of the Stamford Hill-based Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations. Padwa is an internationally regarded posek who was listed as the number 13 most influential Jew in the UK by the Jewish Chronicle.

In 2005 Padwa was filmed by Dispatches telling an alleged abuse victim not to report his abuser to the police, citing the halachic prohibition of Mesirah. Subsequently, a spokesman for Padwa doubted the credibility of the alleged victim, claiming the allegations had already been dismissed by social services as "malicious."