JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Tel Aviv court has ruled in a closed hearing regarding the two young women from a Gur hasidic family who disappeared from their home after their parents left their Gur community in Ashdod and moved to Bnei Brak.
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During the court hearing, the judge ascertained that there were no claims of violence against the girls and ruled that the younger girl, aged just 14, should ideally be under her parent’s jurisdiction. However he asked the girl, who does not wish to be in her home, under what conditions she would be willing to transfer to another family. She replied that if they had kosher phones and her sister was with her she would be willing to go elsewhere.
Due to the girl’s refusal to return to her parents, who have left the mainstream Gur chasidus, it was decided with the parents agreement that during the week the girl and her sister would stay with a neutral chasidic family. A family of Tzanz chasidim agreed to foster the girl and her sister. The judge also ruled that the 17-year-old girl will be staying in the Gur seminar in Ashdod, whereas her sister will not be able to continue to study there as she is too young to commute.
The parents, Aryeh and Leah Sandik, were members of the Ashdod community but decided to move as they did not feel connected anymore to the chasidus. Contrary to what was previously reported, the parents did not join the breakaway faction of Rabbi Shaul, although they had considered such a step. The parents did decide however to move their children away from the Gur institutions and send them to general chasidic institutions in Bnei Brak.
The family was split in two after the two girls and their 12-year-old brother refused to leave the mainstream Gur institutions. The parents claim that they were brainwashed by members of the chasidus. However they agreed that their 17-year-old daughter could complete her studies there. The 14-year-old and 12-year-old were registered to study in Bnei Brak schools.
Two weeks ago the younger daughter did not return from school and her sister did not return from her seminar. The worried parents called police but then received a call from their younger daughter stating that “everything is ok.” The two girls returned home. The next week both of them disappeared from the house and the parents did not know where they were until they met them in the police station Wednesday.
Is this what being a Torah Jew is about. How do people interfere with parents chinuch of a child. Kabed Es Avicha Ves Imecha is in the address hadibros. Is being part of a chasidus above address hadibros.
So sad.
I believe in the long run, Gur will regret what they are doing. This type of control, will eventually backfire.
They have so much to offer. They should focus on the positive rather than the negative.
There are a few popular chasidic rabbis who had inside rebellion. Those who ignored it, won and flourished at the end.
My humble opinion.
Ger = Cult.
Nothing more, it’s not about Hashem it’s about Ger!
Apikorses
Ger is breaking up families like the czar did
Something doesn’t make sense over here. I think we’re missing a big part of the story. Things aren’t adding up.
I’m not sure it’s right to publish names and pictures
This story unfortunately is being spread without the necessary details to be truly informed. All that is certain is that there is alot of pain for everyone concerned. Add to that the tzar in Shomayim – because of the irony that chillul H-shem is being caused by those who seek to be closer to H-shem.
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Sad. Very sad.
Chasidus has turned into a brainwashing cult. Here we have 2 young girls which from all accounts were not abused or neglected at home. Still , they decided to cut ties with their parents due to their shift in loyalty from Ger international to a different idol or possibly they cooled off with their fervent belief in organized crime ( chasidus)
Chasidus should be outlawed and abolished in the 21st century .
Something odd here. We don’t have pictures of women in frum papers and magazines, not in the US and certainly not in Israel where this story takes place. This lady willingly had this video spread all over? She knows people everywhere can see her? Wouldn’t it make more sense for her husband and her to switch roles with her looking down not facing the camera and him looking directly at the viewer and doing the talking? What was the purpose of this video and who decided it’s okay to post it everywhere? I understand a mother might stop at nothing to get her kids back but does this help get her kids back? Highly unlikely her very frum daughters have internet access so while I anonymous person thousands of miles away can see this I don’t imagine this was an efficient means of communication with her missing kids.