As a jew, This isn't Judaism. This is insanity.

I’ve recently begun learning about Lev Tahor. This is so devastating for the families within; separation as a form of punishment. The beatings and sexual abuse, being told it’s all about love. I hope these children will be safe soon, as well as those who wish to escape.

When she asks the girl what do you want to say to the people of Canada, you can hear someone saying in Yiddish “everything’s good” to tell her to say that.

they have very strict kosher laws but do not care about their hygiene?

This is an old video, Lev Tahor was kicked out of Canada and now is under persecution in their new homeland, Guatemala. These people aren't paying taxes and are hating every other sect of Judaism, the Torah clearly states that one must respect their country and its ruler and must LOVE every other Jew, and aswell respect women. They are so extreme orthodox that they managed to be nearly the same as Reform Judaism.

Can a fifteen year-old cult legitimately say it has traditions?

Not looking people in the eyes makes lying a whole lot easier - what a coincidence! Not a single child could answer a question without deflecting to an adult/parent for authorisation or prompting, they must live in a constant state of anxiety and fear.

As a Chasidic practicing Jew, there (Lev Tehor) practices are way above the norm. Their strictness (Machmir) I think might be going against Torah. While its good to be strict and guard yourself, there is a limit.

This is horrifyingly sad and difficult to watch. I grew up in a very similar community, albeit slightly less strict. Do not fool yourself; this is a horrendous way to grow up. The moment you realize how many lies you've been sold, or how many things there are that you are not privy to, living becomes hell. One can only hope that these kids never become unignorant. It is a terrible way to think about it, but I don't know what else to say.

It's incredibly sad to those parent who loose their children forever.. Judaism is a beautiful religion and these psychopathic individuals ruin their children's lives.

Whatever side of any issue you stand on, a journalist asking a subject, "Did you commit such-and-such wrongdoing?" and treating the answer they get as significant in any way is pretty ridiculous.

I'm Jewish and have spent time with the Ultra Orthodox. But this on a whole new level to the point of utter absurdity. Their bizarre doctrines have no foundation, even in Orthodoxy.

This accusation of "religious persecution" whenever a cult gets investigated for child abuse/ physical abuse/ emotional abuse is so old. It would be so refreshing if the cult leaders simply said, "Hey, we like to do things this way. All this abuse is good for the soul". Read a book and you'll be "asked" to leave the community. But no, we're not a cult.

That is disgusting, children sleeping on Urine soaked mattress?

This is definitely NOT representative of Jewish Chasidism. This is way out of line with anything even orthodox Jews would accept.

My only issue with them when they were in Quebec was when they came to my shop and asked to be served by a man. If you set foot on my community where men and women are equal, you are going to deal with me or shop elsewhere. Took me a while to make them understand I would not be bullied into wearing a long skirt just to be able to talk to them. The other thing was hygiene. Even when they returned an item that was only a couple of days open, it would be dirty and smelly.

It's amazing how they managed to not say one single bit of truth I lived there for 6 months can't fool me

The way he stutters as he is answering questions...is one classic sign of his inability to find truthful words

I’m a Jewish girl. I love sleeping in my birthday suit and I’m glad there is evidence here that supports the health and hygiene benefits of doing so. On a more serious note, I know for a fact that the adults in this group actually want to be there. But they need to take proper care of their children. Then when they become adults… let them do what they want. You want to be a mom of 10 kids… well you better have the energy to bathe each and every one of those 10 kids daily. Brush teeth, dress, and give proper hygiene care to them. It’s certainly not easy to be responsible for 10 little ones… but no one is forcing you. This is a mess!!!!

Another one bites the dust! This leader died in MEXICO in 2017.

The reporter is amazing!

this is NOT judiasm this is called being insane

I was the neighbour when the cult was in Quebec, I lived on Ch. Lendman ( the men of the group used to pray at the beginning of the street that I was on, the dead-end street there was a lake), I remember seeing the women there in COLOURED clothing just floating on the lake. I believe that the caretaker of properties name (was Maurice). I knew you guys were Jewish, (but that's all I knew at the time). Being a teen myself, there wasn't much I could do. אני מתנצל, אני מתרגם את זה מאנגלית. הייתי השכנה כשהכת הייתה בקוויבק, גרתי בצ'. לנדמן (הגברים של הקבוצה נהגו להתפלל בתחילת הרחוב שבו הייתי, ברחוב ללא מוצא היה אגם), אני זוכר שראיתי את הנשים שם בלבוש צבעוני פשוט צפות על האגם. אני מאמין ששם המטפל בנכסים (היה מוריס). ידעתי שאתם יהודים, (אבל זה כל מה שידעתי בזמנו). בהיותי נער בעצמי, לא היה לי הרבה מה לעשות.

These guys have lied so much theyve somehow learnt how to never answer the question and divert to other topics

How do you want to be modest when sleeping next to your husband, like he can't see your feet, but you have 13 kids.... the math ain't mathing

honestly i'm shocked! jews we're known for their learning for thousends of years. education was extremly important. why are these groups rejecting this? fear for losing power?

Although it can be difficult to accurately determine a woman’s age when she is so completely covered, there did not seem to be any women in the video who were beyond child bearing age. Where are they?

i am an orthodox jew and this guy is f**king nuts

31:19 bunch oof non-sense. I am Torah observant and a proud Jew, body and soul go hand in hand together in Torah. For example King Dawid, both a great Prophet, King and WARRIOR. Connected to G-D and the physical world- not a contradiction at all.

This was new and so interesting!

honestly, there are a lot of great things about community, family, meaning, faith, etc. the problem is the abuse and total lack of core subjects (english, math, science). The stories out of NYC of ultra orthodox totally unprepared to live in the world and provide for themselves/their families via work are a real problem.

I can’t imagine why they’ve been expelled from so many countries

The men and are dressed in typical Chasidic clothes and Yiddish seems to be their main language. They appear to be ashkenazim, meaning stemming from an Eastern European background (as Chasidic communities originated in Russia and Poland). Jewish women girls and women don't wear the chador. It's possible, in Iran, under Khomeini, or similar dress in other Arab countries. But then, they would be Arab Jews or mizrahim with customs from those communities.

Lorde please keep the children safe😢

There is nothing pure in these people's heart!!! אין שום דבר טהור בלבם של האנשים הללו!!!

Watch the 5th estates program to find out exactly how he got his refugee status & you'll realize why many Canadians are not happy with the way the government works - on that bit right at the end... "not fit for horses meant for _human_ consumption" well im glad i don't eat horses

Absolutely fascinating

What kind of human being doesn't make eye contact..... a sick one! They are all starved. What do they do for doctors or dentists. One guy uses computers... that's really living in the past. The problem isn't that you are a religious group....it's what you neglect to give to the group.

Its too bad they didnt talk about the rampant physical and sexual abuse

Having a balance is the key... have your religious beliefs and your practices but be open to the secular way of life, because that's the larger community that your living within. Otherwise you will always be isolated to a small section. Secondly you may of heard of People leaving such communities because they feel too backward to exist in modern life.

It should be completely shut down. Those poor children and the wives 🙈

I am totally opposed to the government taking their children. I think it is reasonable that the government advise them on required standards of cleanliness, to avoid disease among the children, but taking the children away is uncalled for. They look well-fed and happy. They are not raised among violence and squalor as we see in the inner-cities, yet nobody is trying to remove those kids.

Jewish women did cover most part of their body over hundred years ago in the Middle East. Women in Europe used to wear long dresses and cover arms and legs. The spokes person attributes this to Islamic women. In Islam the women don’t cover all the body at home and can wear anything they like but only cover when leaving the home. Old portraits of Mary show her fully covered with a head scarf. So his logic is incorrect that Jewish women didn’t dress like this, yes some aspects of this group seem extreme such as sleeping fully covered and not washing which is unacceptable.

8 kids, 9 kids, 13 kids.... these men are seeing more than feet......... loonies each and all. Covered feet... gimme a break

I am jewish and these people are following a MAN and not Hashem

This is so sad.... My heart feels for them... Especially women !

Why is the anchor so perpetually surprised at all the findings

As a woman, I cannot imagine having to be intimate with most of the leaders….it’s almost like they try to look as gross as they can

This sect imitated islam or otherwise

I admired this lady journalist.. its amazing video

So…they only don’t marry girls under 16 because of Canadian law? Not because it’s completely ridiculous, likely married to much older men, pregnant before their body is ready, not so they can experience life? I don’t believe that they aren’t child abuse claiming to be marriage 😤

Nothing different from them and extreme Islam

This is totally insane. How a whole community act so lunatic !! In 2023 this is very disappointing. They need some serious counseling. God help them.

I'm blown away by the other orthodox Rabbi's statement that the way the women dress in LT has "no parallel in any Jewish community today or ever," because (other than the all black factor) history says otherwise. I find it disturbing that he thinks that is the most bizarre thing happening in LT.

I've lived near ultra orthodox my whole life they are so creepy

It’s easy to act perfect while the cameras are around. I’m just starting to watch this and already I know children won’t just answer a question. They will always look at an adult to see if they are allowed to answer and would they dare to. What they’d say wouldn’t be an honest, out of the mouths’ of babes answer. It will be what they think they should say. It’s past bedtime, but if I knocked on my neighbours’ doors and asked the children simple questions they wouldn’t hesitate to answer. After many years teaching I can easily spot behaviour that isn’t right. Why can’t he make eye contact with the presenter? It makes me angry, consenting adults are kept apart, but children are ok to abuse? 😤😤😤

This is not about religion, it is about power and using "god" to keep it.

It's a cult

It is Canada fault also . It is not their business to grant him asylum. Israel have court system and human rights on the same level as any European country. He wasn't in any danger.

This is so sad , These kids don’t know anything about the world around them Everything should be done within a limit this is another level

One of the things that's not really understood is that Jews are reluctant to bash other Jews via the secular authorities no matter how much they disagree with them, which is why other haredi rabbis weren't lining up to condemn this cult on television. In actuality, in the dati/frum communities, the Lev Tahor cult has been pretty roundly condemned by even the strictest authorities in Mea Shaarim and Bnei Brak for being too extreme in modesty to the detriment of women's health, and rabbi have forbid their students from marrying a Lev Tahor woman or joining the community. To be condemned by these guys for being too strict ... you're WAY too strict.

It's so sad what these people do also it's sad to think that people think this is what orthodoxy is :(

The stammering and finger pointing and claims of lies on the part of both the leader and his 2nd in command show unstable men bent on a mission to convince others of their opinion that they are a valid community of healthy well balanced people. That the children are safe and well educated. That marrying off a girl under 16 is acceptable. May God help those who can stop them and de-programme the members. The leader is obviously self indulgent at least in the way he over consumes food. Who knows what else he allows himself.

They really lean on abuse for excuses to do things. Geez. Kidnapping kids and such. But it doesn’t happen there…🙄 right…..

He said they would be allowed to get their high school diploma if they wanted. I guess that's a good answer because I'm almost positive none of those children even know what a diploma is. The key here would be to keep them from knowing anything else going on outside of their little community so that they have no knowledge of the world around them. I would have no problem with a place like this if they were told what other options there were. But they're all kept in the dark. The young men have no choice but to become Jewish Scholars because that's all their taught. If they get to a certain age and realize somehow they want to do something else with their life at that point they are stuck. They're only world is what has been put in front of them. They haven't been taught the languages being spoken outside of their community so at that point they could not even begin to try and start their life a new by learning something else. They would have to learn all the curriculum that outside children have learned in their 18 years. That would be far too much to go through for most people. Even though it wouldn't be impossible it's incredibly improbable. I mean, at least the Amish have Rumspringa. I mean, they are practically required to investigate the world around them so that when they choose to return to their Community it's because they want to. Not because they don't know any better.

Kiryas Joel needs to be investigated like this. Seriously.

So this is before they went to Guatemala?

I would say the real reason they are not allowed eye contact with certain outsiders is because it is understood on a deep level that the pathology of the "eye hider" will become apparent. Then it is justified as a tactic of religious or spiritual virtue. It never ceases to amaze the human propensity to shroud even the deepest expressions of human derision in God mandated virtuosity.

These Jews women are so beautiful (Ma sha Allah) . Respect & thanks for sharing.

global news was very well played..... they got you.... hope the governments of Canada USA and Israel, would do something.....

What a life, praying all day and making babies at night!!!!

A Muslim here. I find this Jewish _community_ ( I consciously use the term "community" and not the negative term "cult") deeply sympathetic and I wish them all the best.

They need the Messiah Who has come already. "I came that you might have life & more abundantly."

This is crazy Sick

Its important to note that the Hareidi community consider Lev Tahor a cult... they are not part of the ultra orthodix community and were ejected by it

If their book doesn't mention women having to cover their feet as well as their bodies, why are they doing it? These people are crazy, I agree with you 97nnamdi, Jimmy Jones all over again. These people don't seem to realise what they are doing to their children is depriving them of an education that may lead them out of their church. Absolutely selfish and stupid people.

33:24 if you don't teach the childrens the way the others lives, who is your president or if they are not allowed to walk pass their streets... when you tell them they are welcome to leave the community whenever they want, how is this not a kind of psychological torture. how? i mean what's their options? they're not allowed to know shit about the exterior world.. what they do is they feed on their fear.

I find it interesting that the members of Lev Tahor don’t make eye contact when speaking

The children’s eyes look so empty, so sad

I think instead of taking the children away of the mothers teach them how to take care of the children . I do not agree to take the children away of their own place that they know , I agree this is a cult but help them to take care of their children in a healthy way .

Sectarian schools should not be allowed, they are divisive. Fee paying schools should also be abolished for the same reason.

Urine on the mattress do any of you with preschoolers not get a wet bed some times ?

they are talking about agression beating and dirt but what i see only a peaceful life and modest people ... they try always to demonise religious people ...

It's interesting that even fundamentalist Christian communities in America have a history of these kinds of conflicts with authorities. The Amish, having been established for over 200 years have won exemptions from many public and secular requirements, such as education, in long legal battles with the United States government. However, in the last decade they have begun to send some minors actually to Canada to avoid state forced medical procedures the families have believed to be unnecessary. Hasidic life, even in America, is extreme relative to secular life. But I have had them as neighbors and I have no problem with them. Life is hard for any woman in these communities as it is difficult to have babies year after year; but easier in a community than in a stand alone family. As for marrying age, I'm Italian and all my grand parents got married in their early teens. My grand fathers were working for a living at the age of 11 and 12. And we all remember Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his 13 year old cousin. Historically, people got married when they were able to work and have children; the sooner the better, because one did not have the same life expectancy as we enjoy now. I should not shock any informed person that these people do not recognize the State of Israel: they are pacifists and believe the promised restoration of the promised land has to be done by God, not the United Nations. They believe the existence of the State of Israel is actually delaying the true restoration of the promised land by God. It is interesting that Canada has a very deplorable history of assaulting ethnic and cultural groups, in particular Native Americans, through campaigns of removing children to abusive schools and orphanages. This has been well documented. But there are also laws in Canada that have criminalized any public statements critical of any details of the Holocaust. Even in Israel, orthodox rabbis now are being threatened with the draft, and the entire community there claims that Israel is no longer a religious state and they are all ready to go to prison if drafted. With all the terrible social problems we have, these people endure generation after generation; maybe with some problems of their own - but certainly not with the kind of problems the secular world accepts as being part of "freedom". I am very skeptical about the accusations about lack of cleanliness in the households, because Hasidic law is very detailed about these things. Everything is done according to the Torah, and how the house is cleaned is just as serious as the dietary rules. People forget that before the Vatican reforms, in a city like Chicago, which was predominantly Catholic, religious observance was extremely structured and visible, mass was in Latin, Nuns wore habits designed in the Middle Ages. It was hard to have much of a relationship with a Catholic, if you were a non Catholic, because their life was governed by a constant series of religious observances. On Ash Wednesday, all Catholics did have real ash on their foreheads. I suppose we would consider that extremist behavior now. But in the 50's, Catholic mayors, judges, police, everybody, had ash on their forehead on Ash Wednesday. They observed Lent, and they ate fish on Friday. We have forgotten that the United States was colonized by fundamentalists who were being burned at the stake in Europe as extremists and heretics. The only thing here that actually arouses my suspicion is the large amount of money this group has managed to accumulate. That is something would be interesting to investigate more thoroughly. But in general, Canada's record of treatment of non-Catholic minorities is not historically very good.

These poor children have been brainwashed.

You can tell some wanna say the truth but they know if the leaders find out who knows what could happen

If there was a stairway to heaven for the religious individuals, this community had evidently left Earth.

The head covering seems to be the more likely accurate ruling. The wig seems like a lawyered up interpretation of the Bible as a method of covering the hair.

9.55 min, The girl asked for a translation but spoke Swiss German, very interesting to hear.

When people are different people attack them, because they are different.

“...a beautiful book by Margret Atwood...” YES! Priceless! Shade well thrown!

Lev Tahor or Left-to-Horror .. Monsters , Evil , Demons

This is not Judaism at all.

so sad

Domage qu'il n'y a pas une version Française

How can they forbid food that is allowed in their religion?

I’m shocked they let you even film them, try to go back unannounced and see what happens... Isaiah 53 Jesus already came...

How sad, what a sick degenerate philosophy.

I do not understand why they are so hostile to the state of Israel. The OT prophets say in lots of places that Israel will be regathered from ALL NATIONS in which they've been scattered, so Scripture is not just referring to regathering from the Babylonian exile. It is speaking about the10 tribes, which Assyria exiled and the diaspora of the other two tribes in Roman times. As these people are so sincere about the Tanach, why can they not accept its teaching on the regathering of Israel, during the last century, as being the will of God, in preparation for the coming of Messiah, which they too are waiting for! How can they cast the words of Jeremiah behind their backs? Jer 30:10 "Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. Jer 30:11 "For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished." They must know that God uses what seems like natural means to achieve his will - like he did during the Assyrian, Babylonian and Roman exiles - so why wouldn't he use the same natural means to regather his people?

It's sad they claim to follow the truest form of Judaism and they are not hygienic because The Torah is pretty clear about hygienic practices.