A man in Jerusalem who has worked for years as a rabbi and raised his family in an ultra-Orthodox community has been accused of faking his religion to mask his true identity as a Christian missionary from New Jersey. “The family has been under surveillance for at least seven years,” Shannon Nussan, a researcher for Beyneynu, told local media. The man’s wife, Nussan said, promoted Judaism on social media but “incorporated content from Christianity”. She died last year and was buried in Jerusalem with a Jewish funeral ceremony, Nussan said. He added that while he had worked as a missionary seven or eight years ago, he had since “repented”.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2021 10:41 UTC