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Jewish sect Lev Tahor flees Quebec amid child neglect allegations


Quebec social services say they're investigating members of the group, known as Lev Tahor, for alleged child neglect.


Some of the families were due to appear before a Quebec judge last week for a hearing to ensure child welfare officials had regular access to their children.


But the group, which totals about 200 people, packed up and moved to Chatham.



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Lev Tahor VID


Nachman Helbrans, a member of the Jewish fundamentalist group, Lev Tahor, talks about the groups move from Quebec to Ontario amid a child neglect investigation, while at a motel in Windsor Ont., where they are temporarily staying.

Rabbi Shlomo's reign of terror


It is one o'clock in the afternoon, but it seems the electrical goods store in Rishon Lezion, where I arranged to meet the interviewees, is about to close: an iron shutter closes the entrance up to two-thirds of its length. I bend through the lower third and see them inside. The members of the families whose loved ones were sucked into the black hole of the "Pure Heart" sect are hiding, scared. "You don't know what you're getting into", they will tell me shortly. "Keep in mind that they can hurt anyone. Even you."


Orit Cohen's relative is in the sect with his wife and six children. A relative of Oded Tweek is there with her seven children. Hali's family member (pseudonym) is in the sect with his four children. After the evidence of the acts of violence and abuse and the long hand of the cult leaders, I am beginning to fear. It seems that the only insurance certificate against harm to me, if indeed they are dangerous people as they are attributed, is to simply write about it.



Read this article in Hebrew: https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/44923

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