Copy of Letter to Parents, Educators, and Rabbis posted on Rotter.net

Below is a copy of a letter that was written by a Jerusalem Beit Din to Parents, Educators, and Rabbis warning of the  dangers of Ritual Abuse that is supposedly going on in Jerusalem.   It is very likely that this letter helped to contribute to the panic that is currently going on in several neighborhoods in Jerusalem.  This letter comes in the footsteps of a lengthy Psak that was written by a Jerusalem Beit Din against a woman who is being accused of being a Christian missionary.  (It's not clear if two Batei Din are involved, or if the same Beit Din that made the Psak also wrote the letter).  Basically, both the letter and the Psak are echoing what a few parents in Nachlaot have come to believe: that Ritual Abuse is taking place in Jerusalem with the purpose of converting Jewish children to Christianity. The belief in the existence of Ritual Abuse in Nachlaot, is a sort of "Jewish Israeli" version of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic in connection with Daycare Centers in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s.  The general consensus now is that the supposed Satanic Ritual Abuse back 80s and 90s most likely never took place and that the panic which occurred was a sort of hysteria, though there is still a small core group of people that continue to believe that the Satanic Ritual Abuse was a reality. This small core group of people continues to hold onto their beliefs about Satanic Ritual Abuse, in spite of the fact that no hard evidence was ever presented and most of the people that were jailed have since been exonerated.  Anyone interested in this episode of history can read the book No Crueler Tyrannies by Dorothy Rabinowitz.  Back to current events.  Apparently the members of the Beit Din that  wrote the Psak as well as the Beit Din which wrote the letter, also do not need any solid evidence to condemn various people and to be convinced that Ritual Abuse in occurring in Jerusalem.  Indeed, from what I am hearing, and according to the letter to parents and according to the psak din, the idea that Ritual Abuse is occurring has spread outside the Nachlaot neighborhood where all this supposedly began and is spreading to various other neighborhoods.  PDF להדפסה