Jews 'forced' to leave Guatemala village

[voiceofreason]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28992743

29 August 2014 Last updated at 21:38 ET

Jews 'forced' to leave Guatemala village

Some 230 members of an Orthodox Jewish group have begun leaving a village in western Guatemala after a bitter row with the local indigenous community.

The Lev Tahor members were asked to leave San Juan La Laguna after meetings with elders of the Mayan community.

The elders accused the Jews of shunning the villagers and imposing their religion and customs.

The Lev Tahor had settled in the village six years ago as the group searched for religious freedom.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/08/02/four-more-charged-in-jewish-cult-alleged-kidnapping-plot/

Four more charged in Jewish ‘cult’ alleged kidnapping plot
By Andrew Denney
August 2, 2019 | 4:43pm | Updated

Members of Jewish community Lev Tahor stand on a street in the Guatemalan village of San Juan La Laguna in 2014. Reuters


Four more alleged members of Lev Tahor, an extremist Jewish sect based in Guatemala, have been charged with taking part in a plot to nab two children who are living with their mother upstate and take them back to their father at the group’s compound.

Revealed in court papers unsealed on Friday, defendants Mordechay Malka, Shmiel Weingarten, Yoil Weingarten and Yakov Weingarten were charged with participating in a scheme to take the two children from their mother, who had fled the Lev Tahor.

The children, Yante Teller, 14, and Chaim Teller, 12, who are the grandchildren of Shlomo Helbrans, the late founder of the Lev Tahor, were recovered in December and returned to New York.

Malka was arrested this week at the Newark International Airport and is still in custody, according to the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan, while the other three remain at large. The feds say Shmiel Weingarten picked the children up from their home in Woodridge, NY.

All four men are charged with three counts of international parental kidnapping, which carries a maximum three-year sentence.

Lev Tahor members Nachman Helmans, Mayer Rosner, Jacob Rosner and Aron Rosner were arrested in December and were extradited to the US from Mexico. According to court papers, Sara Helbrans, the children’s mother, fled the group after leaders tried to force Yante Teller to marry Jacob Rosner when the girl was just 13.

In the alleged plot to take back the children, the feds say the defendants nabbed the kids by slipping Yante a cellphone to coordinate a 3 a.m. pickup outside their home in Woodbridge, NY. They allegedly had the children dress in non-religious clothing and flew them from Pennsylvania to Mexico.

 

[Ensis]

Good bye, jews!