Article Added On: January 14, 2005 - over 7 years ago
Title: Kabbalah leader's Holocaust 'slur'
Author: John Sweeney
Publication: BBC News
Publication Date: January 01, 2005 - over 7 years ago
Faith Groups: Jewish
Themes: religion in the media

Abstract: Eliyahu Yardeni, of the London Kabbalah Centre, made the astonishing claim to an undercover reporter investigating high-pressure sales techniques employed by the group, which promotes its own brand of beliefs, part ancient Jewish mysticism and part pseudo-science. The film also revealed how Kabbalah Centre representatives claimed bottles of \\\"healing\\\" spring water sold by the group could help cure cancer, and how they sold a batch to a sufferer for hundreds of pounds. The investigation discovered the water the water, which they claim restructured water through a process called Quantum Resonance Technology, actually comes from a bottling plant in Ontario, Canada, which was the subject of a public health investigation in 2002.

Jan. 14, 2005

A senior figure in the controversial Kabbalah Centre - the sect championed by stars including Madonna and Demi Moore - seems likely to spark a storm of protest by saying Jews killed in the Holocaust brought their downfall upon themselves.

Eliyahu Yardeni, of the London Kabbalah Centre, made the astonishing claim to an undercover reporter investigating high-pressure sales techniques employed by the group, which promotes its own brand of beliefs, part ancient Jewish mysticism and part pseudo-science.

The probe also revealed how Kabbalah Centre representatives claimed bottles of "healing" spring water sold by the group could help cure cancer - and how they sold a batch to a sufferer for hundreds of pounds.

Talking about the wartime massacre of the Jews, Mr Yardeni said: "Just to tell you another thing about the six million Jews that were killed in the Holocaust: the question was that the Light was blocked. They didn't use Kabbalah."