New york jewish week, via jta — three members of the extremist jewish lev tahor religious cult were convicted of kidnapping two children by a new york court on. Lev tahor leaders initially forbade him to go to a hospital, insisting his family’s faith in god would save him. The group jumped borders for years, under scrutiny from.
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We, the lev tahor survivors, a group comprising former members who have escaped the lev tahor cult along with dedicated volunteers from the jewish community, extend our deepest.
Founded by helbrans in jerusalem in the 1980s, lev tahor has been dogged by allegations of child abuse for years.
“israel must act to save the children of the lev tahor cult. Mendy levy talks about his life in lev tahor and why he hates talking about it in this latest living l'chaim episode. A new 35 minute documentary shares the story of a 20 year old survivor of the lev tahor cult’s suspenseful escape from their guatemalan compound. F or many years the fringe lev tahor sect — faced with multiple allegations of severe child abuse, abduction, and human trafficking — was able to outrun law enforcement.
Efforts by rabbanim and askanim alongside authorities in guatemala to break apart the lev tahor cult have produced results in recent weeks and after extensive intervention with. An opposition group, lev tahor survivors, puts the cult’s membership at between 300 to 350 people, though its moves, machinations, and plans are all murky. They’re in real danger,” says yosef (a pseudonym), a former member of the extremist sect operating in guatemala.
