Sex Allegations Rock Kabbalah Center

Tension rocks New York's Kabbalah Centre after an "enemy" of sect leader Philip Berg tried to spread a false story that Berg's wife was having an affair with a senior member in the organization.

Sex lies shake up Kabbalah

Richard Johnson • New York Post

Tension racked New York's Kabbalah Centre after an "enemy" of sect leader Philip Berg tried to spread a false story that Berg's wife, Karen, was having an affair with a senior member in the organization.

Rabbi Berg -- who is called "The Rav" by followers and presides over ceremonies in a white robe -- has been recovering from a serious stroke for a number of years, during which his younger wife has taken over much of his role.

But sources tell us a disgruntled ex-member of Kabbalah has been maliciously and untruthfully claiming Karen has been having an affair with Moshe "Muki" Oppenheimer -- a high-ranking member who is close to many of Kabbalah's celebrity followers, including Madonna, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher and Gwyneth Paltrow.

A source told Page Six: "It is true that Muki has accompanied Karen on trips and to events during Rabbi Berg's illness. The Rav's condition has been kept very secret, and for a while he was confined to bed, but has since made a good recovery.

"Somebody considered an enemy of Kabbalah has been spreading a rumor that Karen and Muki are having an affair, which is not only untrue, but a scandal that could destroy the Kabbalah organization.

"The enemy is also claiming that Karen and Philip's sons, Yehuda and Michael Berg, who are co-directors of the Kabbalah Centre, confronted her about the affair -- but this is also totally untrue," our insider continued.

"The perpetrator of these rumors is out for blood because his 21-year-old daughter has become deeply involved in Kabbalah and wants to devote herself full time to the religion after an expensive college education."

Reiterating that the claims were "absolutely untrue," Kabbalah spokesman Jack Douglas Jr. said: "There is an individual who, for no good reason, has an ax to grind with the Kabbalah Centre and is spreading false and malicious rumors in an effort to hurt Kabbalah and its good people."

Comments

[Mr. Apikoros]

Not that I have any use for the cultists at the Kabbalah Center, but the BS which appears on "Page 6" of the NY Post ain't news.

[Bill]

Apikores,

Apperently the "news" is that the rumor we never even heard of is decidedly untrue, if the people who are denying the rumor are to be believed.

That's news to me!

[Yochanan Lavie]

Kabbalah Love (apologies: Golden Earring)

I’ve been davening all night, my hand’s wet on the siddur
There’s a voice in my head, that makes me consider
It’s Madonna callin’, says: I need you here
And it’s half past four, and "k'vatikin" prayers

Chorus:
When she gets holy and kavannah gets too much
She sends an amulet in from above
Don’t need halacha at all
We’ve got a thing that’s called Kabbalah Love
We’ve got a sephirah in the chariot-
Kabbalah Love

The Rabbi's humming some forgotten niggun
Carlebach's “I Love Jewish Women”
The rabbi’s got me hypnotized
and I’m believing in some mystical lines

Chorus

Solo

No more klipot, I’m almost there
Gotta keep going to a higher sphere
Last angel to pass, here I go
And a line of shadim try to block the flow
And the rabbi hummed that forgotten niggun
Carlebach’s “I love Jewish women”
and Page Six reported but got it wrong
One more Kabbalah lover’s gone

Chorus 2x

[Shlomo]

Denying a rumor which nobody ever heard of is the best way to start a rumor without being sued

[eric@showroomseven.com]

What they forgot to add was that the father of the girl was a donator and serious friend of Rabbi Berg for over 12+years.
He ( the father ) indoctrinated or introduced his daughter to, and through, the 'teachings' of the Kabbalah Center.
Now, she wants to do what her father doesn't want; either right or wrong.
So, the father is screaming "Cult" and "Sex Scandal" and "Indoctrination" and...............................

[HaNavon]

oh they are so evil I cannot even begin to tell you....

[Jake]

erickson

mind explaining the corporate structure of the kaballah organization?

how the money flows: family buissness vs tax exempt organization?

why teachers set up meetings with students and when they hear things are not going well in the persons life they tell them , they must have a bad decree from the heavnly courts. then they are told giving charity can cancel the bad judgement. then the student offers say, $100 and the teacher says for this to really work you have to give an amount that is difficult for you....

they definetly indoctrinate, they can be classified as a cult especially vis a vis their mainly israeli staff known as the tzevet.

oh so much more can be written.....

[Michael David Kittell]

The kabbalah Centre
strivers
We chased them out of the mainline/ (alternate version, there is not so much loose change in the Main Line for hucksters now there is a recession, and the Chabad has most of them)
Strivers down to the British-ised spelling "Centre"
Check out their kids' school website which spelled Piet Mondran "Pete Mandarin" or some such (color theory education ripped off of anti-sem Rudolph Steiner)
Impossible to take seriously a Kabbalist who sees OM as well as tiny hebrew letters in Kabbalah water
(BTW they were copepods)
There was a time Kabbalah was located on Eastern Parkway near 770 and led by Levi Krakovsky, look it up.. whatever happened to him i wonder & did he go quietly
Berg's stroke is the worst kept secret since the secret that kabbalah will ask you for post-dated checks to remain connected to the Light

[ms]

i wonder why everyone here sticks up for some kabbalah lady who has rumors spread about her but when a rumor is spilled about an orthodox rabbi everyone assumes its true

[poshite yid]

Ms, you are right on the money! We all believe what we want to believe. One of my favourite quotes is William James " when people say they are thinking, they are, in all probability re-arranging their prejudices.

[danny]

Kudos YL for this song and for "White Kittel" the other day. Clap clap clap!

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks, Danny.

[Parapeti]

this story is pure lie

[Michael David Kittell]

God save Mali and Malawi for that matter and anyplace else these bozos go
Kids' school using anthroposophy and over-reliance on spell check so Mondrian is Mandarin...
Could have used hebrew spell check on their paperback edition of Shaar hagilgulim which has a Kitah Gimel error on every page...
A sex scandal, true or not, is almost always a diversion from something worse

[fc]

Whether or not this affair actually occured, the article does seem slanted towards believing the spokesman of the KC, and towards deeming the informant an "enemy" who merely wants to save his daughter. Two things are problematic. First, why give the KC the benefit of the doubt in any matter when they have been shown time and again to be a complete fraud? And two, the motivations of the "enemy" are quite unclear and it is certainly not enough to rely on the KC spokesperson, who naturally will reject the story,for an objective look at the matter.

To be frank, though I am unsure, I think I am aware of who the "enemy" is, and if I am correct then there is no way this man would spread a false rumor, even if he is currently estranged from the KC.

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What crap.. is just a thing one can expect from such a person? Shameful at all..

[Ex KC member]

It is known to the employees of The Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles that the organization is being run as a family business on the financial side. the Bergs have total control over hundreds of millions of charity dollars no checks and balances as a not for profit organization should be run. The community side of KC is run as a dictatorship - a cult. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. More scandals to come.

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