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Friday, July 6, 1919 1
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Church of Scientology Probed: California
Cult Reported Drawing Israeli Immigrants
(Editor's note: In a
Federal appeals court
last week, judges ruled
that the Federal Bureau
of Investigation has
failed to provide a "suffi-
ciently detailed and rea-
soned explanation" for
withholding the records
it had collected concern-
ing an investigation of
the Church of Scientol-
and its founder, L.
n Hubbard.
(Hundreds of Israelis in
the Los Angeles area
have joined the church, a
religious cult that has
been the subject of sev-
eral lawsuits. The follow-
ing excerpts are from an
article in "Israel Today,"
a California newspaper,
concerning the Church of
Scientology, its leader
and its members.)
The half-million Jews liv-
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in Los Angeles and heads
the scientology center in
Beersheba. There is at least
one other such center, near
Tel Aviv.
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The American Jewish ,
Scientologist Committee
A group of these young Is- is not loathe to use names
raeli yordim has created a of Jewish personalities
Hebrew speaking branch of who meet with it. A press
the Church of Scientology. release issued by Zvika
Unlike some of the other Ben-Yaakov, one of the
groups. Scientology has not group's organizers, on
been known for large the occasion of the com-
numbers of Jewish con- mittee's Passover cele-
brations, refers to Rabbi
verts.
These newcomers to the Solomon (who conducted
ranks of the Scientologists the Seder), Rabbi Zvi
are not, as are so many of Bloch of Or BaTorah
the recent yordim, members Yeshiva and Rabbi
of the Israeli under- Shlomo Schwartz of
Chabad as having par-
privileged classes.
There are more than ticipated in their pro-
200 of them in Los grams.
Rabbi
quotes
He
Angeles, organized into
the American Jewish Schwartz as saying "I am
Scientologist Committee, happy for the opportunity to
a group without an ad- be able to talk to such a
dress or a telephone on group. They do not have an
its stationery, a Magen interest that is fixated only
David prominently af- on the material world. They
fixed on its left side but have learned to address
noticeably missing the themselves to the spiritual
cross that adorns the sta- one as well."
tionery of the Church of
The use of these rabbis,
Scientology.
and the Simon Wiesenthal
They have several links Center for the Study of the
with rabbis and Jewish Holocaust as well upset
religious organizations in Michael Reiner, emissary
Los Angeles and they ob- for the American Zionist
serve the Jewish holidays Youth Foundation.
together, those at least that
"Rabbi Bloch was ap-
do not involve the conduct-
ing of religious services proached by them because
only. They held a Passover they said they want to know
Seder and a party on Sukkot more about Judaism and he
but they do not have a tem- came to them because he
ple nor do they hold Jewish felt he might save some
souls but they are too
religious services.
sophisticated for that they
There are also evidences are using him to claim that
of the growth of the church they were legitimized by the
in Israel, particularly in Jewish community.
Beersheba.
"So Zvika Ben-Yaakov
Yehoshafat Shaffe Give-
writes in the press re-
on, senior lecturer in math-
ematics and vice chairman lease in general terms
that they are active in
of the Department of Math-
Jewish community ac-
ematics at University of the
Negev in Beersheba, was tivities and cites as proof
that they are working
the founder of the Hebrew
with the Wiesenthal Cen-
ter and they had a Sukkot
party with Rabbi
Schwartz and Rabbi
Bloch gave them a series
of lectures and they
quote a rabbi about how
wonderful they are."
ing in the Los Angeles area
have long been aware of the
growing extent to which
Hebrew can be heard along
Fairfax Avenue near the
Hollywood district and on
parts of Ventura Boulevard
in the San Fernando Valley.
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