‘A Fraud’: Outrage Over Colombia’s New Director of Religious Affairs — a ‘Fake Rabbi’ Who Purchased Ordination for $150 Online

‘He lacks rabbinical training, congregation, and scruples,’ the Simon Weisenthal Center says.

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Dr. Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar. Via X

The Jewish community in Colombia is up in arms after the government appointed an anti-Zionist rabbi with questionable credentials as the Interior Ministry’s new director for religious affairs. 

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