NEW YORK (JTA) — An administrator at a prestigious Jewish middle school in New York City was arrested for production of child pornography.

In an email to the school community on Monday, the principal of SAR Academy in the Riverdale section of the Bronx informed parents that Rabbi Jonathan Skolnick, the associate principal of Judaic studies, was arrested late Friday night. The email said that the school, formally the Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy, had reason to believe that students there may have been victims of Skolnick.

“I know that this is an extremely difficult message to read and process on many levels,” Rabbi Binyamin Krauss wrote. “It is shocking to know that someone who we have trusted with our children has been accused of harming them. Despite the practices in place to protect our children, we are not immune to breaches such as the one that seems to have taken place at SAR.”

SAR has fired Skolnick, who was at the Modern Orthodox school for 14 months. The school is cooperating fully with the FBI. Beyond the claim of “production of pornography” and a mention of “inappropriate photos,” the email did not contain more detail.

From 2012 to 2018, Skolnick worked at the Yeshivah of Flatbush, an Orthodox day school in
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