Authorities arrest senior leader of controversial Jewish sect, take 148 children into protective custody amid abuse ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish cult Lev Tahor denies crimes against minors and warn that the government "will fall" if one of those ...

NEW YORK — On the seventh night of Hanukkah in 2018, three men parked a rental car outside a home in the town of Woodridge in upstate New York. At 2:56 a.m., one of the men made a phone call and ...

(JTA) — Members of Lev Tahor, the Hasidic group that is often described as a cult and has been chased across continents in the wake of a child abduction scandal, were sighted in a remote town in ...

A senior member of an Orthodox Jewish sect wanted for alleged human trafficking has been arrested by Interpol agents in Guatemala.

One of the leaders of the extremist Jewish cult Lev Tahor was arrested in El Salvador, as part of a major crackdown by Central American authorities against the group for alleged abuse of children.

Members of the extremist Jewish sect Lev Tahor held in custody in Guatemala attacked police on Wednesday, Guatemalan authorities said. The incident came as authorities continue to grapple with the ...

(JTA) — Two leaders of Lev Tahor, a fundamentalist Jewish sect, were found guilty on Wednesday of kidnapping and child sexual exploitation crimes by a federal jury in White Plains, New York.

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested Elazar Rompler, a senior member of the Lev Tahor cult, on charges of physical and mental abuse and the assault of minors filed against him in Israel in 2020.

Elazar Rumpler, one of the Lev Tahor cult leaders, was arrested in El Salvador, as per Israel’s request. Wanted on charges of serious child abuse, he attempted to leave Guatemala on a fake ...

A delegation of senior rabbis arrived in Guatemala on Friday to assess the situation of the children of the Lev Tahor cult, describing the group as a 'terror ...