Mexican authorities arrested a leader of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect in southern Mexico accused of organized crime and human trafficking, state and federal officials said Tuesday.

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 sect that broke ...

Guatemalan authorities rescued 160 children and adolescents from the extremist Jewish sect Lev Tahor in southeastern Guatemala on Friday following allegations of child abuse, including rape, ...

Twenty members of the fundamentalist Jewish "Lev Tahor" sect escaped Wednesday night from detention in Mexico following a raid targeting the group, which is accused of drug trafficking and rape, an ...

Twenty members of the Jewish cult Lev Tahor were detained in massive raids by law enforcement authorities in Mexico, the Mexican outlet Diario de Chiapas reported on Tuesday. The raid was carried out ...

Mexican authorities arrested members of 17 families belonging to the extremist Jewish ultra-Orthodox sect Lev Tahor. Lev Tahor, meaning "pure heart" in Hebrew, was founded in Jerusalem in the 1980s.

Hundreds of members of the Christian community in Haifa, took to the streets to protest the arrival of members of an extreme Jewish sect, to a local monetary to pray. "Preserving Haifa's coexistence ...

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 sect that ...

As Israel confronts Iran militarily, the Islamic Republic remains home to more than 10,000 Jews. Yet within Iran's borders exists another ancient, mysterious, virtually unknown community that most ...

JTA — To get from Guatemala City to Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, travelers can’t exactly catch a direct flight. But that’s the route taken in recent weeks by some 70 ...

A special investigation published in the magazine "Searching" (Michapsim) by anti-missionary organization Yad L'Achim's information department reveals the truth about a "rabbi" from Hungary whom ...