A father and son practising as Orthodox rabbis in America have been accused by anti-missionary investigators of being secret evangelical Christians.
The claims over Michael and Calev Isaacson — who have changed their family name from Dawson — would cause disastrous halachic problems for the Jewish community if true.
Sacred rituals performed by the two men include writing holy scrolls, washing the dead, and conducting weddings, divorces and even conversions.
Investigators allege neither man is Jewish, making any rituals in which they took part invalid.
They are suspected of being a “sleeper cell” of evangelical Christians who may ultimately attempt to make aliyah and embed themselves within Israeli society.
The Isaacsons have been accepted and welcomed in a number of Orthodox Jewish communities in locations across the US.
Extensive research has uncovered no evidence of traceable Jewish heritage or any official conversion by members of the Isaacson family.
An investigation by the JC has revealed that Michael Dawson grew up in a Lutheran home and he and his wife were married in a Lutheran wedding.
Read more at Jewish Chronicle.
{Matzav.com}
The founder of Lutheranism, Martin Luther, was a huge anti-semite. His writings are filled with vitriolic hatred of jews.
Fake news. What City have these chevra tried to convert Yidden? Monowi, Nebraska? I’ve never seen these two. Never heard of them.
they say it’s in arizona. I guess you haven’t yet traveled through americas small towns or cities devoid of solid yiddishkeit with those connected a bit to yiddishkeit are very temimusdig
@ShoddyReport I knew them personally. It is bad news on many levels.
Machshil the Rabbim on so many levels: maacholos asuros, pasul gittin and causing mamzerim, non halachic geirus, being motzei the tzibur in tekayas shofar and other mitzvos…it goes on.
It’s pashut bad news.
Where did they hang out. Where did they do their damage?
Someone is trying to make money from this. I feel it.
What communities are affected?
monsyy new sq rogers pk skokoe
@ serious michshel, you knew them? how was his son whos not married able to pass off being a rov, there was a pic going around of them?
How do we know that all our LOR aren’t secret Xtians?
Because they’ve been established as FFB’s with a shalsheles of Torah and Rabbanus. Don’t take this the wrong way, but, when you have some depressed wacked out BT who suddenly becomes a “Rabbi” 3 months after becoming “Frum”, you have a serious problem on your hands. There is something to the saying, BE NORMAL. Anyone with open eyes can smell out a fraud. That’s why these sheisters tend to hang out in small foreign towns. If they came to Brooklyn they would be shunned immediately.