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Lev Tahor (Hebrew: לֵב טָהוֹר, lit. 'pure heart') is a Jewish cult [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 1 ] founded in Israel by Shlomo Helbrans in 1988. It consists of about 200–300 members and according to Guatemalan authorities, engages in child sexual abuse, pedophilia and rape.
Guatemalan authorities rescued 160 children and adolescents from the fundamentalist Jewish sect Lev Tahor in southeastern Guatemala on Friday following allegations of child abuse, including rape ...
Lev Tahor members tried to take back children rescued by authorities [Reuters] Authorities in Guatemala have resisted efforts by members of a Jewish sect to recapture 160 children rescued from its ...
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.
Shlomo Erez Helbrans (Hebrew: שלמה הלברנץ; 5 November 1962 – 7 July 2017) was an Israeli-born cult leader.He was the founder and Rebbe of Lev Tahor.. Originally having established his community in Israel, which he claimed to have modelled after the Satmar Hasidic movement, Helbrans moved his community to the United States, where he was convicted in 1994 for kidnapping, for which he ...
Lev Tahor. A Haredi sect formed in the 1980s by Israeli-Canadian rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, follows a strict version of halakha, including its own unique practices such as lengthy prayer sessions, arranged marriages between teenagers, and head-to-toe coverings for females. [155] Open Orthodoxy
Three brothers who grew up in Monsey before joining Lev Tahor, a fringe sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, were convicted Wednesday in the 2018 kidnapping of two children whose mother had removed ...
Guatemalan police rescue at least 160 children and 40 women held by the Lev Tahor Jewish sect and accuse the group of child sexual abuse, forced marriage, and human trafficking. Members of Lev Tahor broke into the care center in Oratorio, Santa Rosa Department, where the children were being held on Sunday.