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Court to Rule on Legality of Israeli ultra-Orthodox 'Taliban Sect'


In a precedent-setting move, an Israeli court is expected to decide next week whether it is legal to belong to the extreme ultra-Orthodox group Lev Tahor, known as "the Taliban sect." A decision reached this week by a family court in Rishon Letzion indicates that a ruling on Lev Tahor's legality is imminent.


The decision follows what appears to be the conclusion of an international family drama involving two sisters from Beit Shemesh who belong to the Taliban sect. The two were forcibly returned to Israel on Sunday under an order issued by the court. The sisters, 13 and 15, were en route to a Lev Tahor village located on the outskirts of Montreal, Canada.


From Naturi Karta, a type of Satmar followers until the Lev Tahor sect


Blog: They are not "Naturi Karta" as many tend to think that such an organization no longer exists. They hold the views of the Rebbe of Satmar but the followers of Satmar boycott them. Haim Beer writes: These are extremists who crossed the border when theology became pathology.


For many years, every anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstration saw several Jews wearing shtreimel and wrapped in prayer shawls, carrying posters against Israel.


This phenomenon was beautifully photographed in the reports of the television networks but did not arouse excitement - neither in Israel nor in the Jewish world.



Read this article in Hebrew: http://www.zeevgalili.com/2009/05/3520

Convicted of Kidnapping, Rabbi Faces Deportation


A rabbi who served two years in prison for kidnapping is fighting to retain refugee status in Canada, claiming that he has a “well-founded fear of persecution” if forced to return to Israel.


In 1994 an American court in Brooklyn, N.Y., convicted Rabbi Erez Shlomo Elbarnes, 41, for kidnapping a 13-year-old boy. The child’s mother had enrolled him in Elbarnes’s yeshiva for bar mitzvah lessons.


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