WATCH THIS VIDEO: Eliya Haliwa: “This Is The Life I Always Wanted…So I Started Making Up Insane Stories”

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NEW YORK (VINnews) — As previously reported by VINnews, Eliya Haliwa recently sat down with Zev Brenner for a full interview to discuss recent events.

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In this segment of the interview, Haliwa describes what happened the day the day his father-in-law discovered that he wasn’t jewish.

He also describes how he continued to tell lies even after he got caught, in order to try to get himself out of his mess.


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Just Sayin’
Just Sayin’
2 years ago

This scoundrel lies his way into the heart of a gullible and naïve girl, commits one of the cardinal sins, and he’s threatening to sue others for defamation of character?!? If he wants to sue anybody for defamation of character , he should look in the mirror. I have no sympathy for this lying scoundrel and his crocodile tears.

Oebrchuchem
Oebrchuchem
2 years ago

Sob sob, I violated a girl in the worst way, sob, because I so badly wanted her, sob, and in order to have her, sob sob sob, I had no choice but to deceive her and violate her and the Jewish faith in the worst way, sob. What else could i have done? Halacha shmalacha, sob, but this is my life! I had do defile The Torah because of the love of my life. But those wicked news reporters for telling! I hope this girl will also put our affair in front of all Jewish law and ethics, and forgive me. She still loves me, sob, and doesn’t care about the rules and about what anyone says.

So then you have some commentators here who are so secularized, and have so totally lost all Jewish values and conscience, that they feel for the romantic aspect of this and are willing to look aside.

No words!

Faye
Faye
2 years ago

This man lied to a Jewish girl by telling her that he was Jewish, when he was not Jewish. He caused a Jewish girl to be intimate with him, when a Jew is forbidden to be intimate with a non-Jew and is certainly forbidden to even be in Yichud with a non-Jew of the opposite gender. He caused Hashem’s name to be said in vain multiple times at the wedding, because the blessings made at the wedding were not blessings made for Jew to marry Jew. This man is completely unaware of all of the sins that he has done and has caused to be done.

Aviva Cohen
Aviva Cohen
2 years ago

Yeah
Like we can really believe what the liar says

Hashomer
Hashomer
2 years ago

Thousands of people convert to Judaism every year without lies, deceit, deception. This guy sounds deranged. No doubt if he Halachly converts, soon after he will re-convert to another religion or get himself in trouble. Sad story…

Yid
Yid
2 years ago

Can everyone stop calling this rasha by a Jewish name

Not Surprised
Not Surprised
2 years ago

We just read about Shechem last week. He is the modern-day reincarnate.

judith
judith
2 years ago

This case is beyond interesting.

Tal
Tal
2 years ago

I post this comment as someone who was literally in a very similiar situation. I started dating a Shomer mitzvot guy when I was 23. He was also Lebanese . 6 months into the relationship he told me he was a convert and from a Lebanese Shiite family, also from South Lebanon. I was initially in shock but that wore off because I was head over heels in lovewith him, really had no doubt that he was my person. This would all have been fine but I kept catching him in so many lies…..pathological liar, which is very scary. I had to end the relationship because i could no longer tell lies from reality — anyway I found out after we had broken up that he never converted. The truth always comes out, I wish people would get that and save the time energy and emotions of their partners and themselves

Momo18
Momo18
2 years ago

Other people are asking if they were to have a child if that child would be allowed to marry kohn it’s to 100% not allowed
I can tell you off hand something like this happened to me. my husband and I found out (after having a few children) that his grandmother on his mother’s side was a convert (this grandmother and grandfather were very far from religious) no one on his mother’s side is religious at all we had to call so many rabbonim it was such a headache…we were not allowed to live together what was the status of our children because of being able to marry kohn….חסדי השם in the end everything was ok but it was not simple. no one should experience this and honestly if I would have found out beforehand I would have never married my husband I know it’s sad to say but everything is מן השמיים don’t get me wrong we’ve been happily married and kids and everything but yeah if I found out someone were to do that to my kid I probably go haywire. From this whole ordeal my husband and I have learned that you asked every question and I want proof

Dr. Alex Morales
Dr. Alex Morales
2 years ago

This is EXACTLY the reason the gazeira banning geirut in the community exists.

Cal
Cal
2 years ago

He says in an interview I constantly lied yet believe me now that I’m not lying. He should be banned from conversion

Kinas sofrim
Kinas sofrim
2 years ago

Now I know why this clip is posted here.

Emm
Emm
2 years ago

I’m so confused as to why this wedding went ahead in the first place. When my husband and I got married in Israel the rabbanut really did their due diligence and had me (my husband is Israeli and therefore his status was already proven) cough up ketubahs, a shtar, witnesses (for my parents wedding), and letters from rabbonim that knew my parents that could vouch that I was raised orthodox and went to Jewish schools. Heck I even coughed up a letter from the Rav of my high school!

Was this guy ever asked to show a simple ketubah? Also the fact that he literally had no relatives to vouch should have immediately raised red flags.

And allegedly, according to the chabad rav involved, the father of the bride felt the need to ask about this fellows status on several occasions. If you gotta ask then maybe he ain’t Jewish.

This very sad case just showcases how much of a joke Judaism is in the United States.

Momo18
Momo18
2 years ago

I do feel for the guy….but with that sad this poses so many issues in halacha. For one a goy is not allowed to keep Shabbos. He was matama the girl…which pose a lot of issues a Jew is not allowed to be with a goy and if they had children, the children would not be allowed to marry cohnim
Even if he convert his not allowed to marry her according to halacha.

Just Sayin
Just Sayin
2 years ago

Just some food for thought.

How many of us are “guilty” of such sins to Hashem? We all Daven ad “Klap” Selach Lanu (and AL Cheit on Yom Kippur), promise to be better and never go back to our sinful ways.
What happens after that?

Maybe Hashem is showing us what we look like to him?

Under no uncertain terms am I defending this wretched soul, I am just bringing to light that we should not be guilty of such sins ourselves.

Give him a chance
Give him a chance
2 years ago

He needs to make tshuva and convert

Liam K. Nuj
Liam K. Nuj
2 years ago

Wow. I am quite confident that Eliya Haliwa will one day achieve his dream of joining AM Yisrael halachically. And after 120 years, I believe I will be very jealous of his portion in Olam Habah.
(In fact, I would gladly host him for a Shabbos meal or 2, just so that my family and I can learn from his love of Hashem and love of doing mitzvot.)

I am also quite confident that I will NOT be jealous at all of the afterlife of the many holier-than-thou know-it-alls posting here. How they should pray that their judgment won’t be even 1% severe as they are judging this young man who is owning up to a very serious mistake and error in judgment.
(BTW, he never created his lie to get married. The original lie preceded the marriage by many years. He even was kicking himself early on for not immediately opting for a kosher conversion. And as bad as it was, his relationship with the girl was not a violation of one of the 3 cardinal sins, as some have suggested)

ANother guy
ANother guy
2 years ago

Bravo zev, Judaism is all about 2nd chances. Give him a chance to prove his sincerity. Not necessarily with the girl, but as a Jew I will say it loud and proud, I accept this man into the tribe.

Marc lev
Marc lev
2 years ago

I really think this young man is being slandered left and right. He definitely made some big mistakes but if you really watch the entire interview you would get a better sense of his sincerity. Let’s help him instead of trying to destroy his life

5TRESIDENT
5TRESIDENT
2 years ago

A man who wanted to be a Jew so badly that he’d lie about it? Isn’t that a sign of Moshiach? When Ovdei Kochavim would pretend to be Jews to avoid the wrath of Hashem?