(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two leaders of the extremist Jewish group Lev Tahor were sentenced to 12 years in prison. The leaders, Nachman Helbrans and Meyer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two leaders of an extremist religious sect have been sentenced to 12 years each in federal prison for kidnapping two Sullivan ...

Another member of an extremist Jewish sect was arrested Tuesday for allegedly plotting – again – to abduct two New York children who last year were rescued in Mexico. Matityau Moshe Malka, a member of ...

In the aftermath of the drowning of Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, leader of the “Jewish Taliban” cult Lev Tahor in Mexico, the ultra-Orthodox press in Israel has been rife with reports regarding the location ...

The leader of the controversial ultra-Orthodox sect Lev Tahor may have used false evidence to gain refugee status in Canada, a Canadian documentary reported. Ottawa’s granting of refugee status to ...

(JTA) — The leader of a fringe haredi Orthodox sect suspected of abusing children drowned in a river in Mexico, according to local media. Israeli-born Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans reportedly was found ...