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Transcendental Meditation Cult Meeting Canceled in Beersheva
by Y. Cohen

Due to the brisk efforts of the activists of the Anti-Cult Department of Lev L'Achim, and the many requests of the city's residents, the managers of the Paradise Hotel in Beersheva canceled a meeting of the Transcendental Meditation Cult of the Maharishi scheduled for last Monday (27 Sivan) in the hotel.

As soon they learned of the cult's intention to hold an introductory lecture and then a prolonged course, Lev L'Achim's activists told the hotel's general director about the plans and the dangers involved. They also told him that the gedolei Yisroel have determined that the Transcendental Meditation cult has an element of avoda zora and that participating in their meetings and hosting them is totally forbidden. After Lev L'Achim's repeated appeals to the hotel's management to cancel the event were unanswered, Lev L'Achim published an announcement in Yated Ne'eman and the Hamodiah on the issue. This measure was effective, and many businesses called the hotel and said that if it didn't cancel the meeting, they would sever all contacts with it.

By the same token, the head of the Kashrus Department in Beersheva's city council, Rabbi Meir Suissa, sent a letter to the hotel's administration stating that if the event was held in the hotel, he would remove its kashrus supervision and cancel its kosher lemehadrin certificate.

After all this, in the midst of a confrontation taking place in the media between him and Rabbi Zev Steiglitz from Lev L'Achim, the hotel's general director announced that the hotel would cancel the lecture.

Lev L'Achim's activists thanked all those who helped thwart this dangerous activity.

 

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