{"id":521,"date":"2007-07-23T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2007-12-08T22:11:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T04:59:10","slug":"ohr-somayach-rabbi-banned-from-south-africa-having-affairs-with-many-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Ohr Somayach Rabbi Banned From South Africa, Having Affairs With Many Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.typepad.com\/failed_messiahcom\/2007\/07\/ohr-somayach-ra.html\">FailedMessiah reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Writing on Jewschool, David Kelsey reports on a leading Ohr Somayach rabbi, Lewis Furman tossed out of South Africa because he is a &quot;serial philanderer.&quot; His liaisons are said to include married women. One woman&#8217;s husband, on discovering the affair his wife was having with Rabbi Furman, confronted the rabbi and beat him up. That confrontation &ndash; not what appears to be years of private complaints from spouses and friends &ndash; is what got Rabbi Furman exiled. Before that, it seems the rabbis covered up for one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>What interests me most about the story is not the human failings of this rabbi &ndash; what interests me is the lengths South Africa&#8217;s rabbis went to cover up the story. They allowed the rabbi to flee to Israel to seek unspecified &quot;treatment,&quot; and blocked publication of the story in the Jewish media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FailedMessiah reports: Writing on Jewschool, David Kelsey reports on a leading Ohr Somayach rabbi, Lewis Furman tossed out of South Africa because he is a &quot;serial philanderer.&quot; His liaisons are said to include married women. One woman&#8217;s husband, on discovering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse","category-orthodoxy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}