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Nov 13, 2021 · According to Prof. O’Reilly, Twelve Tribes is “a dangerous cult with clear characteristics of racism and antisemitism. They blame the Jews for the murder of Jesus and view the Jewish people today as bearing responsibility for Jesus’ murder.
- The Bratslavs’ #Metoo Moment
- Nocturnal Tours
- Inside Berland’s Jerusalem Enclave
- Berland as Messiah
- ‘Berland’S Control Is Total’
- The Nigeria Plan
- ‘How Can It be? The Man Is 70!’
- Why Won’T The Haredim Condemn him?
- No Longer ‘Rabbi’ Berland?
- Press 13 to Hear Berland ‘Moo’
Eliezer Berland remained on the run from Israeli authorities until the summer of 2016, eluding several Israeli attempts to extradite him as he moved between Zimbabwe, Morocco, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and South Africa, accompanied by a group of dedicated followers numbering around 40 families. In November 2016, months after his eventual extrad...
Berland’s own social media machine, meanwhile, is no less well-oiled. Every night, WhatsApp groups operated by his followers come alive, updating anyone interested on his every move and flooding social media channels with photos and videos, often well into the early morning hours: Berland is in Holon, Bat Yam, Beersheba, conducting home workshops f...
While there are over 30 synagogues affiliated with the Shuvu Bonim name nationwide, Berland’s stronghold continues to be in the heart of Jerusalem, on and around Hahoma Hashlishit street that stitches the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim to Damascus Gate. In July, the Jerusalem municipality began enforcing a cleanup of the area, dismantli...
Barber also denied the community views Berland as a messiah. “The rabbi has never spoken of himself in this way.” “Even if he said something, it was in the context of a joke. The rabbi never said anything like this,” he said. But numerous pieces of footage of Berland, books penned by his students and lectures by his followers defending his conduct,...
When she first began receiving testimonies about Shuvu Bonim, Rachel Lichtenstein, the director of the Israeli Center for Cult Victims, was initially hesitant. Most of the complaints came from secular Israelis whose children had severed family ties to join the community, and Lichtenstein wondered whether some were merely grappling with their childr...
When he began to clandestinely record conversations with Berland in 2010, entrapment was far from Cheshin’s mind. Rather, Berland was a “puzzle” the loyal disciple was intent on cracking, and when the opportunity arose to monitor him nearly 24 hours a day, it “was the fulfillment of a dream.” Recording the Berlands “seemed something very lofty. I w...
“For three years, we were silent,” said Cheshin. “What stopped us from remaining silent was a stream of stories we received [on Berland] from Johannesburg,” he said, referring to allegations of sexual crimes committed by Berland while he was on the run in South Africa. Moreover, Berland’s supporters launched a local campaign in Israel to clear his ...
But the wider Haredi world remains reluctant to openly denounce Berland. In April 2017, following Berland’s release from prison, United Torah Judaism’s Deputy Minister and MK Yaakov Litzman visited him in the hospital,and fellow MK Menachem Eliezer Mozes has toured Shuvu Bonim institutions and pledged increased funding for the community. Despite hi...
Cheshin’s attempts to broaden the excommunication of Berland are ongoing. In the Haredi world, Berland is “questionable, bordering on disavowal,” he said. But ultra-Orthodox rabbis see the Berland phenomenon as “something outside their world. And they believe their acknowledgement of [the Berland problem] will bring the issue into their turf, and t...
Dial the line for the Kav Breslov news hotline and the flat recorded voices of Berland’s former students will lead you down the warped passages in the archive of his delirium. “For tapes of Berland’s son, press 1; for tapes of heresy against God, press 2; for tapes [of Berland] against the Torah, press 3; for tapes of insanity and madness, press 4;...
Mar 22, 2000 · He said that it is definitely not a cult, because cults have leaders that impose their will and take away people's individuality. He said that traditional Jews call Messianic Judaism a cult because that is an explanation for why their children embrace Jesus.
- Samuelson, Francine K.
- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Mar 22, 2000
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The Twelve Tribes's beliefs resemble those of Christian fundamentalism, the Hebrew Roots movement, Messianic Judaism and the Sacred Name Movement; however, the group believes that all other denominations are fallen, and it therefore refuses to align itself with any denomination or movement.
Nov 29, 2012 · Although they operate under the radar of most Israelis, Messianic Jews face intense opposition from haredi groups who portray Messianic Judaism as a cult endangering Israel's Jewish...
Lou de Palingboer (Louwrens Voorthuijzen) [37] (1898-1968), a Dutch charismatic leader who claimed to be God as well as the Messiah from 1950 until his death in 1968. Father Divine (George Baker) (c. 1880 –1965), an African American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death, who claimed to be God. André Matsoua (1899–1942 ...
Aug 11, 2021 · “Messianic Judaism is that branch of Judaism which claims that Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel and that Judaism is best expressed in and through Him. It is Judaism, in its teaching, worship, and way of life, understood and practiced in the light of the Messiah Yeshua,” offers Dr. David Rudolph. Is a Messianic Congregation the Same as a Church?
