Rav Nissim Karelitz’s beis din held a session to probe persistent rumors that a mysterious child-snatching cult is operating in Bnei Brak’s Mishkenot Yaakov neighborhood. Similar rumors spooked two Yerushalayim neighborhoods in the past few years.
After listening to ten witnesses, some who supported the notion and some who disputed it, Dayan Yaakov Silman and his panel issued a written decision that although isolated incidents had occurred, which should be reported to the police, there was no evidence of an organized cult.
“This story was not born in the Mishkenos Yaakov neighborhood,” Dayan Silman said.
“It already happened five times beginning with Yerushalayim’s Nachla’ot neighborhood.”
{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}