13 july 2020
Dozens of Jewish settlers escorted by police forces on Monday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem.
According to local sources, extremist rabbi Yehuda Glick was among the settlers who performed Jewish prayers at the Aqsa Mosque’s Bab al-Maghariba Gate before entering the holy site and touring its courtyards under police guard.
On Sunday, 40 rabbis led by rabbi Yisrael Ariel, head of the temple institute, defiled the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards.
Recently, about 58 rabbis from around the world signed a religious ruling urging and permitting Jews to defile the Aqsa Mosque, which they claimed to be the temple mount.
A Jewish group called students for the temple mount also launched a fundraiser to support Judaization activities and daily break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque.
According to local sources, extremist rabbi Yehuda Glick was among the settlers who performed Jewish prayers at the Aqsa Mosque’s Bab al-Maghariba Gate before entering the holy site and touring its courtyards under police guard.
On Sunday, 40 rabbis led by rabbi Yisrael Ariel, head of the temple institute, defiled the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards.
Recently, about 58 rabbis from around the world signed a religious ruling urging and permitting Jews to defile the Aqsa Mosque, which they claimed to be the temple mount.
A Jewish group called students for the temple mount also launched a fundraiser to support Judaization activities and daily break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque.
12 june 2020
Top ultra-Orthodox adjudicators claim function transgresses prohibition on work on the Sabbath, suggest hiring non-Jewish workers to conduct temperature check on weekends
Prominent ultra-Orthodox adjudicators published a letter on Tuesday calling on believers to avoid entering public spaces that conduct temperature checks on the Sabbath, both manually and automatically.
"Temperature checks run at the entrance to hospitals and other public places (such as guest houses, etc.) raise concerns of transgressing the prohibition on work on the Sabbath – so do any electronic operations done to measure temperature or any writing generated on a monitor as a result," the letter read.
As a solution to the problem, the signees proposed that non-Jewish workers will be responsible for conducting temperature checks on the weekend.
"Entering these places on the Sabbath is strictly prohibited, except life-threatening situations according to Jewish law. The right thing for hospitals would be to let non-Jews perform the checks and allow entry to patients in non-life-threatening situations as well."
Meanwhile, the Zomet Institute - an Israeli high-tech non-profit organization specializing in IT equipment and electronic appliances designed to meet Jewish law standards - claims that such automatic electrical activities, whose benefit to the user is uncertain, are allowed on the Sabbath.
The institute said that "writing" digits over an LCD monitor is done by simply modifying the position of molecules, and therefore it should not be considered prohibited writing on the Sabbath if it is automatically generated.
According to these two standards, the Zomet Institute has recently developed a thermometer approved for use on the Sabbath.
Avraham Reznikov, rabbi of Ichilov Hospital, where the thermometers in question are installed, also addressed the issue, comparing automatic thermometers to security cameras.
"From a halakhic standpoint, there is no difference between using security cameras in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter and thermal cameras that warn of higher-than-normal temperatures," said Reznikov.
Prominent ultra-Orthodox adjudicators published a letter on Tuesday calling on believers to avoid entering public spaces that conduct temperature checks on the Sabbath, both manually and automatically.
"Temperature checks run at the entrance to hospitals and other public places (such as guest houses, etc.) raise concerns of transgressing the prohibition on work on the Sabbath – so do any electronic operations done to measure temperature or any writing generated on a monitor as a result," the letter read.
As a solution to the problem, the signees proposed that non-Jewish workers will be responsible for conducting temperature checks on the weekend.
"Entering these places on the Sabbath is strictly prohibited, except life-threatening situations according to Jewish law. The right thing for hospitals would be to let non-Jews perform the checks and allow entry to patients in non-life-threatening situations as well."
Meanwhile, the Zomet Institute - an Israeli high-tech non-profit organization specializing in IT equipment and electronic appliances designed to meet Jewish law standards - claims that such automatic electrical activities, whose benefit to the user is uncertain, are allowed on the Sabbath.
The institute said that "writing" digits over an LCD monitor is done by simply modifying the position of molecules, and therefore it should not be considered prohibited writing on the Sabbath if it is automatically generated.
According to these two standards, the Zomet Institute has recently developed a thermometer approved for use on the Sabbath.
Avraham Reznikov, rabbi of Ichilov Hospital, where the thermometers in question are installed, also addressed the issue, comparing automatic thermometers to security cameras.
"From a halakhic standpoint, there is no difference between using security cameras in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter and thermal cameras that warn of higher-than-normal temperatures," said Reznikov.
26 may 2020
Rabbi Elazar Rompler, who taught in Canadian school belonging to the radical sect, is charged with stripping and beating a 9-year-old for allegedly stealing and a 10-year-old accused of lying about needing glasses, both in front of the entire student body
A member of the ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor cult was indicted on Tuesday at Jerusalem District Court on charges of mentally and physically abusing children.
According to the indictment, in 2009-2011, when he served as the principal of a school belonging to the sect in Canada, 46-year-old Rabbi Elazar Rompler allegedly abused two children aged 9 and 10 years of age.
Lev Tahor was founded in Jerusalem in the 1990s by charismatic leader Rabbi Shlomo Hebrans who died in mysterious circumstances in Mexico in 2017.
According to the charges, in 2009, Rompler allegedly had a child stripped of his clothes, tied up and beaten with a stick and a belt for several hours over suspicions he stole money from a charity box.
Quoting bible verses condemning theft, the defendant addressed the entire student body explaining his actions as the child cried in pain beside him. After beating him on the back, the child was turned over and the beatings continued on his abdomen, chest, legs and buttocks.
The child was unable to stand on his own feet after the beating and had to be carried home by classmates.
In another incident, in 2011, Rompler was accused of instructing other teachers to hold a child down and beat him repeatedly for allegedly lying that he needed glasses. The child was also held down by teachers and beat repeatedly on his back and buttocks while the defendant spoke to the student body that was assembled to watch about the sin of telling lies.
Lev Tahor, which has about 230 members, has frequently moved from country to country in efforts to escape criminal charges.
In 2014, it relocated to Guatemala from Canada following allegations of mistreatment of its children including abuse and child-marriages and separating children from their parents.
In September the sect had requested political asylum in Iran, according to documents filed in a U.S. Federal Court after at least six members of its leadership were indicted in the United States on various charges including kidnapping, identity theft (use of false passports), conspiracy to defraud the United States and international parental kidnapping.
Lev Tahor declared its “loyalty and submission to the Supreme Leader and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, the documents state.
In April 2017, Israel designated the group a violent cult after evidence of severe mental and physical abuse of members emerged and reports that parents within the sect prevented their children from attending formal education and cut them off from the outside world surfaced.
Rompler was arrested in December after arriving in Israel. He has since been under house arrest and has an order prohibiting him from leaving the country has been issued by the court.
A member of the ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor cult was indicted on Tuesday at Jerusalem District Court on charges of mentally and physically abusing children.
According to the indictment, in 2009-2011, when he served as the principal of a school belonging to the sect in Canada, 46-year-old Rabbi Elazar Rompler allegedly abused two children aged 9 and 10 years of age.
Lev Tahor was founded in Jerusalem in the 1990s by charismatic leader Rabbi Shlomo Hebrans who died in mysterious circumstances in Mexico in 2017.
According to the charges, in 2009, Rompler allegedly had a child stripped of his clothes, tied up and beaten with a stick and a belt for several hours over suspicions he stole money from a charity box.
Quoting bible verses condemning theft, the defendant addressed the entire student body explaining his actions as the child cried in pain beside him. After beating him on the back, the child was turned over and the beatings continued on his abdomen, chest, legs and buttocks.
The child was unable to stand on his own feet after the beating and had to be carried home by classmates.
In another incident, in 2011, Rompler was accused of instructing other teachers to hold a child down and beat him repeatedly for allegedly lying that he needed glasses. The child was also held down by teachers and beat repeatedly on his back and buttocks while the defendant spoke to the student body that was assembled to watch about the sin of telling lies.
Lev Tahor, which has about 230 members, has frequently moved from country to country in efforts to escape criminal charges.
In 2014, it relocated to Guatemala from Canada following allegations of mistreatment of its children including abuse and child-marriages and separating children from their parents.
In September the sect had requested political asylum in Iran, according to documents filed in a U.S. Federal Court after at least six members of its leadership were indicted in the United States on various charges including kidnapping, identity theft (use of false passports), conspiracy to defraud the United States and international parental kidnapping.
Lev Tahor declared its “loyalty and submission to the Supreme Leader and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, the documents state.
In April 2017, Israel designated the group a violent cult after evidence of severe mental and physical abuse of members emerged and reports that parents within the sect prevented their children from attending formal education and cut them off from the outside world surfaced.
Rompler was arrested in December after arriving in Israel. He has since been under house arrest and has an order prohibiting him from leaving the country has been issued by the court.
30 mar 2020
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The city has a 34% rate of infection compared to neighboring Tel Aviv with 6% and Jerusalem with 10% of tests showing contamination.
1 mar 2020
The 16-article indictment says Eliezer Berland along with his aides promised his desperate worshippers he will cure them of diseases such as cancer and bring their relatives back from a coma in exchange for thousands of shekels
A rabbi who conned more hundreds of people, some terminally ill, with promises of a miracle cure, was charged on Sunday with aggravated fraud and extortion.
Eliezer Berland, 82, was detained three weeks ago along with his wife and five major fundraisers for his yeshiva. Berland has previously served a 10-month sentence for sexually abusing his female acolytes.
The indictment was filed at Jerusalem District Court by the city's prosecutor's office on numerous charges, including fraud and extortion.
Dozens of his worshippers protested outside the Jerusalem court during Berland's remand - which was extended until Thursday - hearing earlier.
"I guess the noise outside has to do with you,” said the judge to the rabbi during the hearing. “I can't hold a hearing like that. As long as it’s up to you, make sure to take care of it. Otherwise we’ll have to stop and postpone the hearing.”
According to the 16-article indictment, Berland, who was the head of the Shuvu Banim Yeshiva - which is affiliated with the Breslov Hasidic movement - exercised authority over thousands of his worshippers.
He presented himself as a rabbinic and spiritual authority to the yeshiva’s members, who all were asked to act in accordance with Berland’s instructions.
The indictment also says that from the year 2014 until 2020, Berland with the help of his aides, exploited his status in order to extort money from his followers who were all desperate for help.
According to the indictment, Berland managed to convince his worshippers he has supernatural abilities and can “redeem your soul” in exchange for thousands of shekels.
In one particular case, he demanded NIS 20,000 ($6,000) from a daughter of a woman who was sick with cancer. "If the amount is paid to him, the hospital will do an x-ray and everything will come back clear,” one of the rabbi’s assistants told the daughter.
Berland, as the indictment states, promised full recovery from serious and sometimes incurable illnesses, recovery from permanent medical conditions (such as disability) as well as redemption for people whose loved one had gone missing or were imprisoned.
In one instance, somewhere between 2013 and 2016, he promised a man convicted of murder that his sentence would be reduced, and Police Commissioner would be jailed instead within 30 days if the inmate transfers tens of thousands of shekels to Berland’s daughter.
In addition, on one occasion he promised the parents of toddler who near drowned and was hospitalized in a serious condition, that in exchange for NIS 20,000 ($6,000) the child would "wake up" from his coma.
A rabbi who conned more hundreds of people, some terminally ill, with promises of a miracle cure, was charged on Sunday with aggravated fraud and extortion.
Eliezer Berland, 82, was detained three weeks ago along with his wife and five major fundraisers for his yeshiva. Berland has previously served a 10-month sentence for sexually abusing his female acolytes.
The indictment was filed at Jerusalem District Court by the city's prosecutor's office on numerous charges, including fraud and extortion.
Dozens of his worshippers protested outside the Jerusalem court during Berland's remand - which was extended until Thursday - hearing earlier.
"I guess the noise outside has to do with you,” said the judge to the rabbi during the hearing. “I can't hold a hearing like that. As long as it’s up to you, make sure to take care of it. Otherwise we’ll have to stop and postpone the hearing.”
According to the 16-article indictment, Berland, who was the head of the Shuvu Banim Yeshiva - which is affiliated with the Breslov Hasidic movement - exercised authority over thousands of his worshippers.
He presented himself as a rabbinic and spiritual authority to the yeshiva’s members, who all were asked to act in accordance with Berland’s instructions.
The indictment also says that from the year 2014 until 2020, Berland with the help of his aides, exploited his status in order to extort money from his followers who were all desperate for help.
According to the indictment, Berland managed to convince his worshippers he has supernatural abilities and can “redeem your soul” in exchange for thousands of shekels.
In one particular case, he demanded NIS 20,000 ($6,000) from a daughter of a woman who was sick with cancer. "If the amount is paid to him, the hospital will do an x-ray and everything will come back clear,” one of the rabbi’s assistants told the daughter.
Berland, as the indictment states, promised full recovery from serious and sometimes incurable illnesses, recovery from permanent medical conditions (such as disability) as well as redemption for people whose loved one had gone missing or were imprisoned.
In one instance, somewhere between 2013 and 2016, he promised a man convicted of murder that his sentence would be reduced, and Police Commissioner would be jailed instead within 30 days if the inmate transfers tens of thousands of shekels to Berland’s daughter.
In addition, on one occasion he promised the parents of toddler who near drowned and was hospitalized in a serious condition, that in exchange for NIS 20,000 ($6,000) the child would "wake up" from his coma.
