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Adam Brudzewsky: Lev Tahor whistleblower or paranoiac?


Television cameras rushed to capture Adam Brudzewsky’s arrival at a Saint-Jérôme, Que., courthouse one snowy morning last November, dressed in the distinctive orthodox Jewish outfit of wide-brimmed black hat, black silk coat tied at the waist, bushy beard and payot, the curled strand of hair flanking his face.


He was there for a hearing that would end eight hours later with a judge’s order that 14 children from the radical Jewish sect Lev Tahor should be taken into the care of foster families in Montreal despite 200 members of the group having fled a few days earlier to a new life in Chatham-Kent, Ont.


Brudzewsky, who is in his late 20s, gave a nervous smile as he passed the journalists.



Photo by Alain Roberge / La Presse file photo

Orthodox Jewish Community Leaves Guatemala Village


Afew months after moving from Canada to San Juan la Laguna village, in a remote part of Guatemala, to find religious freedom, a group from the ultra-orthodox Jewish Lev Tahor sect have been forced out of their homes, in a bitter conflict with village elders. The community was accused of trying to convert locals and scaring away tourists, who visit the village of 10,000 people.



Photo by Jorge Dan Lopez / Reuters

Haredim leave village in Guatemala: threatened by lynching


Ugly anti-Semitism or an attempt at religious coercion? A community of 230 ultra-Orthodox Jews began leaving an Indian village in Guatemala yesterday (Thursday), where they have lived for six years, following accusations and counter-accusations regarding discrimination and threats. Their departure from San Juan La Lugana, a town on the shores of Lake Atitlan 200 km from the capital Guatemala City, came following a meeting on Friday in which Jews and locals were unable to reach an agreement.



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