Lev Tahor Survivors

https://www.levtahorsurvivors.com/post/podcast-mendy-levy-lev-tahor

If you missed it, watch this new podcast interview with Mendy Levy

New Podcast: Mendy Levy Talks Lev Tahor Mendy Levy talks about his life in Lev Tahor and why he hates talking about it. Watch this latest Living L'Chaim podcast.

Lev Tahor Marries Off Children!
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Lev Tahor cult member accused of marrying off minor child The Jerusalem resident was arrested and released after a court appearance.The post Lev Tahor cult member accused of marrying off minor child appeared first on JNS.org.

טאָן ניט שענקען! פּסח איז אַ הויך צייַט פאַר לב טהור צו זאַמלען געלט. אבער האלט שטארק! געלט איז די איינציקע מאַכט וואָס די זידלען פירער האַלטן איצט. העלף די ארעמע קרבנות צו לעבן אַ געזונט, פרומע לעבן - אַוועק פון זידלענע מענטשען!

PLEASE DON'T DONATE! Pesach is high season for Lev Tahor to fundraise. They may tell you that the money is for the hungry children. They may tell you that the money is just for their family. And your heart may go out to them.

But hold strong! Money is the only power the abusive leaders hold right now. Help the victims live a healthy, frum life - away from abuse, by not donating money to those who abuse them!

ATTENTION LONDON

Lev Tahor has been spotted fundraising door to door in England. Please share and inform neighbors and friends not to give any actual money to the collectors as it goes into the pockets of cult leadership and not to the actual victims inside Lev Tahor.

With all the darkness in this world, there is even more light! We just have to open our eyes and our hearts to notice the light all around us.

Next year .levy should celebrate with his entire family still trapped by darkness!

Lev Tahor Survivors updated their phone number.

We need your help finding Lev Tahor! If you see them, message us right away! Please share! Here's what happened:

The early morning raid on a Lev Tahor compound in Mexico, near the Guatemala border, took place on Friday, September 23rd, by Mexican police with assistance from a private Israeli team. Two Lev Tahor members were captured and arrested with allegations of human trafficking, r**e, and other serious offenses. Two other members had left the compound only days before the raid and are being sought by police. "Numerous children were saved in the raid, including children forced into marriages as young as 12 or 13, and young teen mothers seemed to be hiding their babies under their robes." a person present at the raid said. Police separated the boys and girls, with female police for the women, to ensure the sensitivity of their religious observances. Children were kept with their parents. Special arrangements were made to accommodate the victims’ needs during their stay in a comfortable safe home for abuse victims, such as strictly Kosher food, Kiddush cup and wine for Shabbat, prayer books for Rosh Hashana. Aleph Institute had a Shofar driven hours to their location for Rosh Hashana. Yisrael Amir, who had left Lev Tahor three years ago and been trying to retrieve his now-3-year-old son, was reunited with him, and they flew back to Israel. "Their reunion was done with specialists on hand, and went much smoother than expected, bringing tears to many of those present" an eyewitness reported. A special team including a former Mossad agent, child trauma specialists, and others, was present for the raid to provide the utmost care in this sensitive situation. In the raid, numerous documents were recovered, including letters discussing the brutal abuse carried out as punishment for infractions. In an unfortunate turn of events, in the middle of the night, Lev Tahor members took the victims from the safe home, including the children that were awaiting travel plans to reunite with their families. The children are now held captive by the cult in dangerous conditions. This raid deals another blow to the Lev Tahor leadership, following the conviction of 2 members earlier this month for their role in the 2018 kidnapping of 2 children from their mother’s home in New York. The group leadership entails 15-20 people and still has an estimated 70-80 followers in Guatemala, many held against their will. As the recapture of these children illustrates the risk they still present.

IN COURT THIS WEEK:
Jacob (Yaakov) Rosner showed remorse for his role in Lev Tahor kidnapping.
Sentence: Free (on account of time served)

Matisyahu Malka begged the judge to give him the same prison sentence as his Rebbe (144 months).
Sentence: 66 months

Mordechay Malka (Matisyahu's cousin) gave a speech saying sorry to everyone.
Sentence: 57 months
https://t.co/2IY6HR5zXv

PRESS RELEASE: TWO MEN SENTENCED FOR THEIR ROLES IN THE KIDNAPPING OF GRANDCHILDREN OF CULT FOUNDER New York - On Wednesday, September 7th, 2022, Judge Nelson Roman sentenced Matityau Moshe Malka and Jacob Rosner for their respective roles in an elaborate kidnapping scheme. Aron Rosner had been found guilty for his involvement in the brazen 2018 kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy and his 14-year-old....

Lev Tahor is fundraising in Boro Park and the New York area. Do NOT give them any money or harass them as they are victims.

Offer them a drink and let them know that whenever they decide to leave Lev Tahor, they will be welcomed by the frum community.

Lev Tahor members spotted on Dunsmure Road in Stamford Hill.

Notify friends in London to tell everyone they know to avoid donating to cult members as it directly supports abuse.

If you have 27 minutes, listen to this extraordinary Montreal Gazette podcast in which reporters Jason Madger and Maya Kroth share their share their experiences with Lev Tahor.

Highlights:

- A pregnant, drugged, badly beaten teen appears at a Montreal hospital
- Yoil Weingarten admitting on tape to the fungal feet allegations
- Former neighbors recall seeing pregnant 13-year-olds pushing strollers
- A bruised child in their Guatemala City complex

Listen to the episode on the True Crime Byline podcast, one:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TqvzxqAQQl5mh1bG9WTZ6?si=satXSZToRt6Qrxqj9YDydA&nd=1

Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lev-tahor-the-case-of-a-missing-community/id1628690886?i=1000570687259

Google podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vdHJ1ZS1jcmltZS1ieWxpbmU/episode/YWM0ZGY3ZmMtMDc4ZS0xMWVkLWE1M2EtMmI5NjgyYWViYTEx?sa=X&ved=0CAQQkfYCahcKEwjAk-6a4oz5AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en-CA

Amazon music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/5918c979-7bcb-4b7c-b7e9-20a3c10058d0/episodes/45a4848a-6d96-4634-b0f9-ac750ca24ec7/true-crime-byline-lev-tahor-the-case-of-a-missing-community

We can confirm that they are in London. Thank you to everyone who sent in photos and videos. Please let us know if you spot Lev Tahor in your region so we can inform the public.

Warning over extreme Jewish sect fundraising in London The claims, not yet verified by Jewish News, have been circulated by a group helping survivors of the Lev Tahor sect, whose jailed leaders were convicted of child kidnapping.

Lev Tahor is in New York! Here's what you can do.

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Lev Tahor is in New York. לב טהור זענען אין ניו יארק

די כת (קולט) פירערשאַפט האָבן געשיקט עטליכע מענטשן אַרום ניו יארק צו זיי זאַמלען געלט.

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Leadership behind bars, Lev Tahor cult now seeking to move to Morocco, opponents say Extremist Jewish group seen getting blessing from controversial celebrity rabbi Pinto for latest cross-border flight; activist says most in group being held against their will

עטליכע לב טהור רעקרויטערס און פאנדזאמלערס זענען יעצט אין ענגלאנד. אויב איר זעט זיי, געדענקען אַז זיי זענען וויקטימס און זאָל זיין באהאנדלט גוט. ביטע שיקן בילדער, ווידעא און אינפאָרמאַציע דורך WhatsApp צו 1-845-262-4066+

Lev Tahor is fundraising and recruiting in London. Share this with your British friends now!

Meet Uriel Goldman and share his dossier.

Per a Kikar Hashabat report, Lev Tahor is disintegrating, with cult members spotted in Israel and London.

Read the report: https://kikar.co.il/422666.html

Let's talk Uriel Goldman, Lev Tahor's spokesperson and fundraiser (and suspected strategist). He's been in the news recently after being spotted visiting Rav Yoshiyahu Pinto in Morocco (see https://monsey.info/lev-tahor-leadership-spotted-visiting-rav-yoshiyahu-yosef-pinto-in-morocco/).

His brother is Michael Yehuda Goldman, a Lev Tahor teacher suspected of molestation and child abuse. His son Yisroel Yehuda Efraim Goldman is suspected of involvement in a Lev Tahor kidnapping attempt.

Uriel and his brother joined Lev Tahor when the cult was still in Israel. A former member of Bnei Akiva, Uriel’s intelligence, persuasiveness, and communication skills turned him into one of the cult’s leading fundraisers, their formal spokesperson, and an advisor to cult founder Shlomo Helbrans and the Hanhala (“administration”). He holds Israeli, American, and Argentinian citizenship.

As evidenced from numerous documentaries on Lev Tahor, Goldman is very active in backstage management. He is present in almost all formal media interviews, and can often be spotted behind the scenes, sometimes even communicating with those who have less experience speaking in front of cameras. He is also Lev Tahor’s chief correspondent with politicians and supporters, with leadership of various Chassidic communities, and both the English and Yiddish media.

As Lev Tahor’s top fundraiser, Goldman is skilful at adapting, adjusting, manipulating, and finding creative methods for the cult to raise millions of dollars through various business dealings and "creative" solicitation campaigns.

In the early years of the cult, Goldman claims to have urged Shlomo Helbrans to leave Israel before a possible government crackdown (see page 9 of this newly leaked document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zfVrSkF0ObFGU4ZLJAJTmA3qvfxamkGd/view)

After arrival in the United States and establishing a Lev Tahor Yeshiva, a parent brought a 12-year-old boy for Bar Mitzvah lessons and Shlomo Helbrans decided to remove/kidnap him from his family. Goldman was the one who paid the young teen’s travel expenses and a $5000 payment so Fhima could testify on Helbrans’ behalf during the kidnapping trial (watch him admit to paying for the teen's flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnyx6pqb-zM&t=2300s).

Goldman was also caught on camera commanding inferiors to hide computers and other potential evidence (evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0HDYr37II)

In 2018, several weeks after Lev Tahor kidnapped two children, Goldman was detained by Mexican authorities together with several other members of Lev Tahor. He was flown to the United States and later released.

Goldman still travels for fundraising purposes and to try and establish connections with governments and religious Jewish leadership across the globe. He is an integral part of Lev Tahor’s operations and organization.

An important story:

After being released from a United States prison, cult founder Shlomo Helbrans was deported to Israel, where he would likely be investigated. Helbrans was granted political asylum in Canada based on Goldman’s sworn testimony that he had been sent by the Israeli government to infiltrate Lev Tahor (evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0HDYr37II&t=104s)

However, Goldman later admitted, in leaked audio from a phone call, that he had lied to Canadian authorities (evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC0HDYr37II&t=150s).

Goldman is suspected of lying to Canadian government authorities, money laundering, charity fraud, fundraising for Lev Tahor under the name of other organizations.

If you see him, notify us so we can inform the public. You can send tips to us by email or on our website. Call us: +1718-751-0803 (ASK IF ANYONE IS ANSWERING AND WHO IS IT - THEN ROLEPLAY). Whatsapp: +1845-262-4066.

Tell us in the comments who you want us to profile next!

Today, let's review a leaked document detailing the consequences for not filling in required daily reports.

It's dated 5 Iyar, 5778 which corresponds to April 20, 2018. Worth noting that at this point, Nachman Helbrans is 9 months into his leadership & at the time was implementing stricter measures on cult members across the board.

Our translation is paraphrased and doesn't do it proper justice. Here goes:

It opens by announcing new rules being set.

"Everyone has until next Tuesday to submit their reports (which should contain 50 hours of prayer, and 36 hours of learning - 34.5 if they visited Shlomo Helbrans' grave).

Starting Wednesday, you must submit weekly reports each Wednesday before 1:30pm. If you miss the deadline, it will be as if you never gave in your report.

By Wednesday evening, a sign will be posted listing those allowed to enter the study hall/Synagogue for the upcoming week.

Anyone who feels they should be allowed into the study hall/Synagogue can discuss it with hanhala (administration) on Thursday from 1:00-7:00pm (provided his daily reports were handed in on time).

Complaints on this topic are forbidden on Friday & Shabbat.

In order to unite and allow our most exalted community - the greatest community in history - to bring the moshiach (messiah), it's vital that everyone details their every action & behavior.

This allows for accountability with yourself, & allows your mentors to guide you.

Detailing your daily movement allows mentors & superiors to give you guidance on your personal "tikkun" (repair) in this incarnation so you avoid torment in the world to come, as we heard numerous times from Shlomo Helbrans.

This why it's important to fill in your daily report, detailing all your actions related to service of Gd as Shlomo Helbrans taught.

Therefore, anyone who ever wants to be part of our community is required to fill in their daily reports.

The goal of this document is to outline the boundaries and consequences for those who don't fill in their daily reports. Anyone disregarding or mocking their report will face larger consequences, including being considered as if they never handed in their report.

Anyone banned from the study hall/Synagogue for a period of two weeks due to issues related to their daily reports will not be allowed to send their children to our schools and institutions & will be sent out of our compound (as detailed in Shlomo Helbrans' books).

May we merit to bring about the moshiach."

End of paraphrasing.

Do any other Jewish communities require daily detailed reports, on threat of expulsion?

See this & more documents at https://levleaks.com

Is this "the old way?" The "original Judaism?"

Reporters from Kikar hashabbat recently visited Lev Tahor's abandoned Guatemalan compound and managed to nab dozens of photographs of what was demolished and left behind.

The photos depict a mikveh, shoes, hasidic garments.

Google translated article and photo essay: https://www-kikar-co-il.translate.goog/420629.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

At 2:00 today, an in-person change of plea is scheduled for Aron Rosner, alleged financier of Lev Tahor's kidnapping plots.

More on Aron: https://www.levtahorsurvivors.com/aron-rosner

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Aron Rosner | Lev Tahor Survivors Aron Rosner is the brother of Lev Tahor administration member Mayer Rosner. Arrested in December 2018, he was accused of financing a Lev Tahor operation to kidnap two children who had escaped from the cult together with their mother.

LEV TAHOR CULT MEMBERS MORDECHAY AND MATITYAHU MALKA CONVICTED OF KIDNAPPING

PRESS RELEASE

New York - Two important members of the Lev Tahor Jewish cult have been convicted for their involvement the brazen 2018 kidnapping of a 12-year-old boy and his 14-year-old sister, who were taken to Mexico where the girl reentered into a sexual relationship with her 20-year-old “husband.” One of the members was convicted for his role in another attempted kidnapping of the same children at a later date.

It took just one hour of deliberation for a jury to find Matityahu and Mordechay Malka guilty of conspiracy for kidnapping, international kidnapping, and attempted kidnapping. Current cult leader Nachman Helbrans and member of Lev Tahor administration Mayer Rosner have already been convicted and sentenced, and five more alleged co-conspirators have been charged.

During the trial, testimony brought to light some of the inner-workings of the cult and significant details of the kidnapping conspiracy.

On July 7, 2017 Lev Tahor cult founder and leader Shlomo Helbrans died under suspicious circumstances in a remote Mexican river. His son Nachman took control of the cult and added stifling new restrictions as he secured his new power. Within a week of his leadership, he forced his hyper-allergenic sister Miriam to consume sesame at a public gathering where she died.

(More details on those deaths and the cult can be found in these two recent documentary films that we produced:
https://youtu.be/fMLBIwiEv3I
https://youtu.be/m95BTIEpvOc)

Nachman’s younger sister Sara Helbrans-Teller, mother of the kidnapped children, testified during the trial that several weeks after her father and sister’s death, Nachman informed her that her then-12-year-old daughter was to be engaged with a 19-year-old man. When Sara protested, Nachman publicly excommunicated her for a year, removed her 6 children from her home, and proceeded with the marriage of her daughter.

In October, 2018 Sara managed to escape from the cult compound near Oratorio, Guatemala along with several of her children. She made her way to the home of friends in New York where she obtained orders of custody and protection.

On December 6, 2018 Mordechay Malka rented a vehicle. Working with numerous co-conspirators that included his cousin Matityahu Malka and cult leader Nachman Helbrans (currently serving 12 years for his role in the abduction), they rented a motel room and purchased disguises. The Malkas smuggled drop phones to the 14-year-old girl and her 12-year-old brother (at a later attempted kidnapping, Matityahu Malka gave the girl a drop phone and sedatives).

Two days later, at around 3:00 in the morning, the children snuck out the house and into a waiting vehicle that drove them to Scranton airport, where Nachman Helbrans was waiting. Using passports belonging to Nachman’s children, they spent the day flying through several airports, eventually entering Mexico.

Incredibly, they not only broke numerous federal laws but as it was a Saturday, the Jewish day of rest, their behavior went against basic Jewish Halacha (law), a code the cult claims to adhere to more strictly than any other Jewish sect.

It took three weeks and over a hundred officers from law enforcement agencies in three countries to eventually track down the children in Mexico and reunite them with their mother. In 2019 and 2021, Lev Tahor cult made two more attempts to kidnap the children.

Mordechay and Matityahu opted to serve as their own council at the trial but after repeatedly proving incapable of abiding by court proceedings, that privilege was revoked and they were replaced by standby council.

During the trial, the court heard from numerous witnesses including the husband of the 14-year-old girl, officials from several agencies, and a former member of the cult who had participated in the plotting and carrying out of the abduction, and who detailed the atmosphere of fear and punishments inside the cult. Evidence produced included recorded phone conversations, photographs, video footage, and documents.

After an hour of deliberations, the jury found both Malkas guilty on all charges, including conspiracy for kidnapping, international kidnapping, and attempted kidnapping.

“I feel bad though,” admitted Lev Tahor survivor Mendy Levy, who escaped the cult a few years ago. “Because Mordechai Malka was not really a bad guy. He was just forced to do what he did by the Weingartens, Nachman Helbrans, and Mayer Rosner."

Sentencing for Matityahu and Mordechay Malka will be in September.

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Quotes

“I feel bad though, because Mordechai Malka was not really a bad guy. He was just forced to do what he did by the Weingartens, Nachman Helbrans, and Mayer Rosner. They made him do the crimes he did. He’s naturally a nice guy, based on my experience with him in Lev Tahor.”

Lev Tahor survivor Mendy Levy

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Department of Justice Press Release:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lev-tahor-operatives-convicted-trial-kidnapping-offenses

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Detailed written reports and analysis from the Malka trial

Day 1: https://www.levtahorsurvivors.com/post/lev-tahor-malka-trial-day-1-synopsis

Day 2: https://www.levtahorsurvivors.com/post/lev-tahor-cult-leader-took-3-flights-on-shabbat-malka-trial-day-2-report

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Documentaries related to the above story

https://youtu.be/fMLBIwiEv3I
https://youtu.be/m95BTIEpvOc

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Read on our website: https://www.levtahorsurvivors.com/post/press-release-lev-tahor-cult-members-mordechay-and-matityahu-malka-convicted-of-kidnapping