[jjotto]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2005/01/bbc-exposes-kabbalah-center-scam.html

...The film also investigates the background of the sect’s founder, ‘Dr’ Philip Berg, who is known to followers as the Rav. He enjoys a millionaire’s lifestyle in Los Angeles.

The source of Mr Berg’s ‘doctorate’ is not clear, but it is known that he was born Feivel Gruberger in New York, trained as a rabbi and worked as an insurance agent before deserting his first wife and seven children for second wife, Karen...

[decimon]

Thanks. I see there’s even a Wikipedia article on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feivel_Gruberger