Convicted Neo-Nazi Is A Former Yeshiva Student

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A British neo-Nazi who was convicted Monday of membership in a banned group and who had named his son after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and photographed himself with a swastika flag had once been a student at a Yerushalayim yeshiva.

Adam Thomas, a resident of the town of Banbury, in Oxfordshire in central England studied at the Machon Meir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim, founded by Rabbi Dov Bigon in the mid-1970s and heavily influenced by the teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook and his son, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, for two periods of time in 2015.

 

Thomas – who is not Jewish – learned at the Yehsiva under the name of “Avi Thomas”, and had applied to the school’s conversion program but was  denied his application for conversion after staff members realized he was unstable.

“We sensed after a while that he was a real ‘meshugeneh’ [mentally-unstable individual],” the yeshiva official said. “This was not evident immediately. He was quite knowledgeable in Torah, mild-mannered and even somewhat pleasant.”

“He has a fantastic memory and was passionate about Torah knowledge. He has a very dark side as well, and a pull towards extremism. Once this side came out we knew he was not worthy for giur [conversion] studies.”

Read more at Arutz Sheva.

{Matzav.com}


7 COMMENTS

  1. so please do not write YESHIVA STUDENT… he was not a Talmid…. he wanted geirus. Sy what it is instead of misleading us to believe he was a Yeshiva Bochur

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