THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Rabbi Heads Mission to Break Unification Church Movement
BY BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
A Westchester Reform
rabbi who created a nation-
wide organization to combat
missionary efforts of Sun
Myung Moon's "Unification
Church," has reported that,
as of the last week in Janu-
ary, the organization had
rescued 94 teenagers from
the Moon program of whom
14 were Jews.
Rabbi Maurice Davis of
the Jewish Community Cen-
ter of White Plains, who is
president of Citizens En-
gaged in Reuniting Families
(CERF), reported last No-
vember that, as of that date,
CERF had rescued "some 50
to 60 youngsters," of whom
about 10 percent were Jews.
He gave that report at meet-
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ation of Reform Synagogues
and at a special conference
on Jewish young adults
sponsored by the Long Is-
land Division of the commis-
sion on synagogue relations
of the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies.
He developed CERF in
August, 1975, "as an out-
growth of an original ad hoc
citizens committee against
the Unification Church."
Rabbi Davis said that
among the results of his two
years of combat had been "a
bakers dozen of phone calls
threatening my life."
He described in detail
the intensive -Indoctrina-
tion to which young men
and women were subjected
to turn them into willing
disciples of Moon, reject-
ing their families and their
life-styles. He said that
"all they have to do is be-
come slaves, to walk ar-
ound with a plastic smile
and the eyes out of focus,
as they are taught and
begin to believe that every
human being outside the
Unification Church is in
the control of Satan."
They also are taught, ac-
cording to Rabbi Davis, that
the six million European
Jewish men, women and
children slaughtered by the
Nazis "were simply paying
indemnity for having killed
Christ." He called the Moon
movement "a dangerous
cult, a pseudo-religion, a
counterfeit Christianity,
using the vocabulary of
Christianity to lure Chris-
tians and using the vocabu-
lary of social justice to lure
Jews."
He said he had repeatedly
talked to young men and
women in efforts to get
them out of the Moon move-
ment, adding that "mostly,
we have been successful."
He said it was "an amazing
experience to watch a
youngster come out of that
trance."
Rabbi Davis stressed that
CERF abjures any use of
physical force. Rabbi Davis
is assisted, in his rescue ef-
forts, by 45 of the young
people who have been res-
cued, including a dozen Jew-
ish youngsters. When he or
one of the rescued young
people meet with a Moon
disciple, it is always on the
basis of persuasion and in
the presence of the disciple's
parents.
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He said CERF offers
advice to parents on how
best to communicate with
sons and daughters caught
in the Moon cult, makes le-
gal counsel available to
the parents, keeps parents
informed about the activi-
ties of Moon and his move-
ment and keeps "accurate
records to help parents in
the same or neighboring
cities to know each other."
CERF counsels the af-
fected teenagers as much as
possible, refers them to
qualified psychiatrists and
psychologists, maintains an
active file on all youngsters
who have left the movement
and helps them to keep in
touch with each other.
CERF supplies the media
with information and mate-
rial "to help them in their
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