Rabbi Eliezer Berland
The Israeli news website Walla reports that
Israel Army radio is reporting that the leader of a large Hasidic group who
made a sudden trip abroad several weeks ago did so to flee possible indictment
for sexually abusing woman and girls who came to him for advice.
While Walla does not report the name of the Rabbi,
he is believed to be 75-year-old Rabbi Eliezer Berland, the head of the Shuvu
Bonim Breslov sect. He is a member of Vaad Olami D'Chasedai Breslov (World
Committee of Breslov Chassidim) and is credited with causing thousands of
secular Jews to convert to Hasidic Judaism.
Berland reportedly arrived in Miami recently.
His attorney, Yaakov Weinroth, has reportedly flown
to the US to try to convince Berland to return to Israel.
The father of a 15-year-old girl allegedly molested
by the unnamed rabbi believed to be Berland told Army Radio that when his
15-year-old daughter told him about the abuse and older daughter came forward
and admitted that the rabbi had sexually abused her, as well. The girls' father
believes in all 10 to 20 women and girls were sexually abused by the rabbi.
Army Radio received several testimonies of abuse by
unidentified individuals described as the rabbi’s followers.
The report said the affair exploded after one of the
rabbi’s followers said he saw the rabbi naked with a woman during what was
supposed to be “a purification session.” Police learned of the affair after
other followers threatened the man to keep quiet about what he said he
witnessed.
One man told Army Radio that his 15-year-old
daughter told him the rabbi grabbed her ...... The girl’s older sister said the
rabbi committed similar acts on her three years earlier, when she was 17.
Army Radio reported Monday that the 70-year-old
rabbi, agreed to return to Israel in the coming days and face his accusers. Attorney
Jacob Weinroth traveled to the US to persuade the rabbi, according to the
station.
Hanoch Daum, a journalist and writer, said he filed
a criminal complaint against the rabbi based on a third testimony of abuse that
he heard from an alleged victim.
He shoulf follow his example & pack off.
ReplyDeleteWhat so he can be begged to return .........
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