Shame of Ukip’s ‘rampant rabbi’
Candidate in sordid sex role-play with woman he met on bondage site ...but he won’t even shake female rivals’ hands ‘on religious grounds’
A MARRIED rabbi standing for Ukip in the mayoral elections has been having an affair with a woman he met on a bondage website.
Shneur Odze, 36, who faces former Labour Cabinet Minister Andy Burnham in the race to become the Mayor of Manchester, is accused of playing out a disturbing ‘sexual fantasy’ with the young woman.
Odze – who was revealed earlier this month to have burned a ‘bible’ before posting the pictures of the event on social media – met the 25year-old office worker through a bondage and sadomasochism website.
The rabbi is a senior member of the ultra-orthodox Lubavitcher sect and has previously refused to shake hands with female political opponents on ‘religious grounds’.
But according to the woman he met on the bondage site, he:
Bizarrely posed as a Roman Catholic priest in his online profile, styling himself ‘His Worshipful’ and ‘The Right Reverend’;
Indulged in disturbing sexual role play games;
Bombarded her with sexually explicit text messages and begged her to join him in a threesome with another woman he had met online;
Sent sexually explicit texts on the Sabbath;
Told her that his name was Simon, and never revealed who he really was, or that he was married.
The revelations will be a further blow to Ukip’s floundering General Election campaign under new leader Paul Nuttall.
Since last summer’s Brexit vote, and the departure of former leader Nigel Farage, Ukip’s core voters have flocked back to the Conservatives.
The woman, who we are calling Cassie, told The Mail on Sunday that she was contacted by the rabbi, who has four daughters, last November via Fetlife.com.
The site has been described as ‘like Facebook, but run by the kinky community’.
In a profile headed ‘His Worshipful’, Odze borrowed a stock image of a handsome young priest reading a prayer book and announced: ‘I have been into various aspects of BDSM for a number of years now, alibi [sic] more off than on. Over that time I have tried a great deal and enjoyed even more.’
He added: ‘It’s about a voyage of self-discovery, fulfilling that inner void, living for the moment…’ He signed off: ‘The Right Reverend.’ Cassie, who describes herself as ‘submissive’, said Odze drove from his home in Salford to her flat in York for their first encounter.
‘He told me in a text to open the communal door and the one to my flat. When he came in, he put my wrists and ankles in plastic handcuffs and blindfolded me,’ she claimed.
‘He also hit me across the buttocks for all the times I’d forgotten to call him Sir.’
What happened thereafter will be inexplicable to most people, but Cassie offers her own explanation.
She said her condition had been described to her by doctors as ‘compulsive self-destructive sexual behaviour’.
She and Odze had consensual sex,
‘It’s about a voyage of self-discovery’
and despite her misgivings about him, she agreed to meet him on three further occasions: twice at her flat, and once in nearby Harrogate, where they had sex in his car.
Cassie said she discovered Odze’s real identity when she googled his mobile phone number which took her to his Ukip Facebook page.
She claimed he appeared to be possessive and controlling from the first time they met. ‘To a certain degree, this was part of our role-playing,’ she said.
‘I had to call him Sir every time I spoke to him, which was fine, although it got ridiculous after a while.
‘If I was being good he would address me as angel, but if I questioned him or answered back, he would call me a “whore, b **** or c***”.
‘He told me from the start that he wanted our relationship to be exclusive, which I was fine with, but then he kept pestering me to have a threesome.’
In one text to Cassie sent on March 3, after she failed to turn up for a date, Odze said ‘What the hell were you thinking c***? There
‘He hit me and made me call him Sir’
was me thinking you could be a good whore.’
In another, seen by The Mail on Sunday, he referred to having a threesome and Cassie responded: ‘Thank you Sir but the two of us should be fine if you’re happy with a single bed but a threesome wouldn’t work. x.’
Cassie said she was shocked when she saw that Odze was presenting an image of himself as a happily married pillar of the community.
‘He had lied to me, by telling me he wasn’t married and he’s lying to the people he wants to represent by pretending to be something he’s not. It is hypocritical,’ she said.
In 2014, when he stood for Ukip to be an MEP, Odze refused to shake the hands of rival female candidates on religious grounds.
In the same year, after former Minister for Civil Society, Brooks Newmark, sent explicit texts to a person he thought was a young woman, Odze was forthright in his denunciation.
He tweeted: ‘Whilst I feel sorry for Brooks Newmark’s family. To get the privacy they so deserve & he so craves, I’ve one sure tip, simply resign!’
Odze was a Conservative councillor in London before marrying Chava Kessler, who stood unsuccessfully as a Tory candidate in Bury in 2004. The rabbi tweeted the images of a burning book after saying he had found a ‘missionary bible’ – which has anti-Semitic connotations – at his synagogue. He later apologised for any offence and removed the photos from Twitter.
A former law student, he is a confidant of Mr Farage and Mr Nuttall. When confronted about the latest allegations last night, Rabbi Odze opened the front door of his terraced home in Salford to say: ‘It’s my sabbath, I’ve just got out of bed. You can call my agent.’
The Mail on Sunday then made it clear that the allegations concerned ‘your activities on Fetlife and your relationship with a 25-year-old woman’. He replied: ‘I’ve no idea what you’re talking about.’
A Ukip spokesman said: ‘This is a personal matter for Mr Odze. He has broken no law, and therefore we have no comment to make.’