(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.

(JTA) — Two tiny sects with Jewish roots have been dragged into yet another diplomatic fight between Russia and Ukraine. The few hundred Karaites who remain in Ukraine today are remnants of a ...

Roth is a part of Neturei Karta, a Haredi sect that takes an anti-Zionist stance — meaning the group doesn’t believe in the concept of a Jewish state of Israel. Haredim (the plural of Haredi ...

Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown was hit with a foreclosure lawsuit Tuesday for a range of alleged offenses related to a $16.5 ...

Canadian Avraham Dinkel and US citizen Chaim Malka were stopped at border, charged with attempting to help Moshe Yhida Alter, ...

He is 38 year old Israeli Yoel Maika who is being sought for questioning regarding the disappearance of those 13 minors in Guatemala, now believed to be in Belize. Police say he may be traveling with ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from ...

Authorities in Guatemala rescued at least 160 children from a Jewish sect following allegations of abuse and human trafficking. Police raided the premises of the sect called Lev Tahor in Oratorio ...

From Monday we've been reporting on the three jewish men detained in Belize - on the suspicion that they may be members of an extremist jewish sect called Lev Tahor which is based in Guatemala. Well, ...

Belize to Send Lev Tahor Jewish Sect Leader, 2 Others to Guatemala By Jose A. Sanchez BELIZE CITY (Reuters) - Belize on Tuesday said it was sending three men, including a leader of the Jewish sect ...