[Opinion] Child Marriage Prosecution Opinion as to the Lev Tahor Ultra-Orthodox Group, Described by Some as "Jewish Taliban"

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Child Marriage Prosecution Opinion as to the Lev Tahor Ultra-Orthodox Group, Described by Some as "Jewish Taliban"

From the start of Judge Nelson Román's (long) opinion, in U.S. v. Helbrans(S.D.N.Y.):This case involves the removal of two minors … from their Mother in New York, by members of Lev Tahor, an "ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community currently in Guatemala," of which the Mother and the Minors were previously a part. Defendants Nachman Helbrans … and Mayer Rosner ("Rosner")… are members of Lev Tahor charged in a six-count superseding indictment for…