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Wednesday 13 March 2013

His best friend R' Eliezer Berland


           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.








3 comments:

  1. He shoulf follow his example & pack off.

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  2. What so he can be begged to return .........

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  3. In Yerushalayim there is now a wall poster with pictures of Yair Lapid and "the iPhone owner" Naftali Bennett as the destroyers of Yiddishkeit. The real destroyers are the Rabbi in London and the Rabbi in Beitar.

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