(New York Jewish Week) — Three members of the extremist Jewish Lev Tahor religious cult were convicted of kidnapping two children by a New York court on Wednesday. Brothers Yoil Weingarten, Yakov ...
Leaders of a Jewish fundamentalist cult were sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for kidnapping two kids— including a child bride – then smuggling them into Mexico, prosecutors said. Three ...
When Mendy Levy was 15 years old, he had never thrown a baseball, seen a stuffed animal, watched television or held a cellphone. Born into the extreme fundamentalist Jewish sect of Lev Tahor, he was, ...
(New York Jewish Week) — Three members of the extremist Jewish Lev Tahor religious cult were convicted of kidnapping two children by a New York court on Wednesday. Brothers Yoil Weingarten, Yakov ...
Lev Tahor is a secretive group and little is known about its inner workings, and adheres to extreme interpretation of Jewish law that shields members from the outside world. Three members of the ...
From the start of Judge Nelson Román's (long) opinion, in U.S. v. Helbrans (S.D.N.Y.): This case involves the removal of two minors … from their Mother in New York, by members of Lev Tahor, an ...
In September 2018, Shimon Malka left his wife and parents and fled Lev Tahor, the insular, sojourning ultra Orthodox Jewish community then based in Guatemala. He was done with the group's food ...