o.deutsch@ikg-wien.at
office@ikg-wien.at
Dear Mr. Deutsch,
10 years on and it still saddens me that your community has continually and purposefully stopped the mother of these 2 children, nearly barmitzvah, the right to see her children. You and I know that the reports of Beth having mental issues is baseless and completely falsified as they have been debunked by many a specialist since. It is a Chillul Hashem of the highest degree what has happened to her and the way she has been treated by the Schlesinger family and the community you lead.
The outrage from the across the world by Rabbonim and leaders of communities still casts a very dark shadow over your community, and the only way to lift this shadow is to help Beth have her rights as a mother returned. It is the Torah way to allow a mother to have a relationship with her children. The time for turning a blind eye or shielding whatever you may have to hide as a community is over. It is time for you to stand up and be a righteous, Hashem fearing, upstanding member of the worldwide Jewish community and stop this outrage from continuing a minute longer. It is in your hands to do what is right for the children and their mother, to create light from the darkness that has been enveloped over your community for far too long.
I know that you don't need this hassle. You want a good life running a community you can be proud of, one that the Jewish and non-Jewish world can look on favourably and know that its being led by people who follow the Jewish teachings fully and acts in the correct way to serve Hashem. You don't need all these people, Rabbonim, heads of worldwide Jewish organisations, members of parliaments, even heads of state sending you letters and emails of discontent in the way that your community is behaving in this situation.
Its in your hands. Do the right thing.
Please keep me updated as to how you are working to right this wrong. I look forward to your correspondence.
Yours,
Michael Marks
Manchester, UK
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