Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
New York - VIN News has learned that Brazilian authorities have been notified to be on the lookout for [Rabbi] Elior Chen who is a fugitive from Israel, and is wanted in connection with the extensive... to read the entire story click on the hyperlink headline
Religion News Blog (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
The mother reportedly belongs to an ultra-Orthodox group led by a charismatic leader, Elior Chen, who preaches "correcting" children by means of torture.
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Yair Ettinger, Jonathan Lis & Uri Blau;12/4/08 The Jerusalem police on Friday issued an international arrest warrant against Elior Chen, a spiritual leader who is suspected of orchestrating the worst case of systematic child abuse in Israel’s history. At the beginning of this week, Haaretz reported that Chen had fled to Canada with one of his [...]
Religion News Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
The Jerusalem police on Friday issued an extradition order against Elior Chen, a spiritual leader who is suspected of orchestrating the worst case of systematic child abuse in Israel's history.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Rabbi Elior Chen fled Israel to seek refuge in Canada. Not because he was being persecuted, as so many others do, nor was he fleeing a war-torn area. Chen came to Canada to avoid criminal prosecution. Israel issued an arrest warrant for him in connection to charges of beating children as young as three with hammers and knives to discipline them. Yes, hammers and knives. As expected,...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Israel was arranging Tuesday to seek the extradition of a radical rabbi from Canada in the torture of his followers' children, officials said.Rabbi Elior Chen, 29, was named in an international warrant Monday in Jerusalem, a correspondent for Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reported.Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told the newspaper Chen flew to an undisclosed city...
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Uri Blau, Yair Ettinger, Jonathan Lis & Ofra Edelman; 7/4/08 Rabbi Elior Chen, the spiritual authority behind a group accused of systematically abusing children in a Jerusalem family, has fled to Canada with one of his supporters, Haaretz has learned. Chen is supposed to meet the other members of the group in Canada, where the family [...]
