“Gamboa is a fraud,” said the Simon Weisenthal Center, which accused him of buying his rabbinical ordination for $150 dollars ...

Rabbi Dr. Richard Gamboa Ben Eliecer, formerly just Ricardo Rodriguez Gamboa, as can be seen in his university thesis, has an ...

Marcos Peckel, executive director of the Confederation of Jewish Communities of Colombia, expressed outrage over the ...

The Colombian government’s new director for religious affairs stands accused of being a “fake rabbi” and obtaining an ...

Gamboa’s rabbinical ordination certificate, of which he posted a picture on his LinkedIn account and website, came from the Esoteric Theological Seminary. While he cited an interfaith theological ...

In a video on X, Gamboa on Tuesday denied that he’d bought the Esoteric Theological Seminary rabbinical certificate. “I did not pay for it,” he said in the video, in which he presented to the camera ...

He reportedly received his ordination from a Florida institution called the Esoteric Theological Seminary that advertises rabbinical degrees for $160. Gamboa’s LinkedIn displays an ordination ...