Editing Kabbalah Centre (section)

==Controversies==
According to a [[BBC]] news article, Eliyahu Yardeni, a senior figure in the London Kabbalah Centre, made controversial comments regarding the [[Holocaust]].<ref name="bbc1"/> The Kabbalah Centre also made claims that spring water sold by the group had among its effects a curative effect on cancer.<ref name="bbc1"/>

Other media criticisms have alleged that The Kabbalah Centre is an "opportunistic offshoot of the faith, with charismatic leaders who try to attract the rich and the vulnerable with the promise of health, wealth, and happiness."<ref name="bbc1">{{cite news
  | title = Kabbalah leader's Holocaust slur
  | work = BBC News
  |date= January 9, 2005
  | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4158287.stm
  | access-date =  2006-10-31
  | first=John
  | last=Sweeney}}</ref>

Beginning in 2011 the centre was put under investigation by the IRS and FBI for financial malfeasance, following the abandonment of the Raising Malawi school project with millions of donors' dollars unaccounted for.<ref>Barrett, Wayne, "Madonna's Malawi Disaster"m Newsweek, The Daily Beast, April 3, 2011.</ref> In 2012, a Kabbalah Centre charity, Spirituality for Kids, accepted a $600,000 donation from an 87-year-old woman who some claim had dementia.<ref>Rick Cohen,"Kabbalah Center Accepted $600,000 Donation From Woman With Dementia", Nonprofit Quarterly, April 11, 2012.</ref> In November 2013, two lawsuits were filed by former donors alleging that their gifts were misused.<ref>Kim Christensen, [https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-kabbalah-20131204,0,4429725.story#axzz2mSLbcnPy "Kabbalah Centre accused of misusing more than $1 million in donations"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', December 3, 2013.</ref>

In November 2015, the centre was ordered to pay $42,500 damages to one of its former students after it was found to have been negligent in the supervision of one of its co-directors, [[Yehuda Berg]]. Yehuda Berg, who is the founders' son, was found liable for emotional distress after a female member of the center acussed him of sexual harassment and coercive drug pushing.<ref name="laweek">{{cite news|last1=Aron|first1=Hillel|title=KABBALAH CENTRE AND ITS FORMER RABBI TO THE STARS TO PAY $177,500 IN SEXUAL BATTERY SUIT|url=http://www.laweekly.com/news/kabbalah-centre-and-its-former-rabbi-to-the-stars-to-pay-177-500-in-sexual-battery-suit-6315924|access-date=28 November 2015|work=LA Weekly|date=25 November 2015}}</ref>