UK Investigates
`Sex Rabbi'
London (JTA) — Britain's charity
commissioners have frozen the trust
accounts of the "Kosher Sex" rabbi's
L'Chaim Society amid concern about
"the application and control of the
charity's funds."
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who
achieved celebrity on both sides of the
Atlantic with his provocatively titled
books — which include Kosher Sex and
The Jewish Guide to Adultery — is
believed to have transformed the
L'Chaim Society; a modest student
group he founded at Oxford University,
into an organization that generates an
annual six-figure cash stream.
During the past 10 years, the unam-
biguously brash and glitzy style of the
New York-educated rabbi has attracted
a significant following among Britain's
young Jews, but it has also offended
many in the Orthodox establishment.
They were particularly upset when
he sold an excerpt from Kosher Sex to
Playboy magazine for a reported fee of
$200,000.
Noted one media commentator:
"For an Orthodox rabbi, Shmuley
Boteach has an unorthodox way of
doing things."
The charity commissioners launched
their inquiry into the society three
months ago after documents handed to
the police were passed on to them.
The commissioners, who monitor
the activities of Britain's charitable
trusts, said they had decided to freeze
the society's bank accounts as "a tem-
porary and protective measure."
Their investigation is understood to
center on payments that were made by
the society, including contributions to
mortgage payments on Boteach's
$600,000 London home.
Officials of the L'Chaim Society
insist that the payments were made
only after consultations with charity
experts at a leading London law firm.
Trustees of the society believe
Boteach's success has "led jealous
opponents to try to bring him and
L'Chaim down."
"For some months," they said in a
statement, "a group of individuals has
bombarded the Charity Commission
with scurrilous complaints and stolen
documents, trying to force an investi-
gation.
"These allegations are utterly with-
out foundation," they added. "That
any Jew could have done this breaks
our hearts.
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