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From Naturi Karta, a type of Satmar followers until the Lev Tahor sect


Blog: They are not "Naturi Karta" as many tend to think that such an organization no longer exists. They hold the views of the Rebbe of Satmar but the followers of Satmar boycott them. Haim Beer writes: These are extremists who crossed the border when theology became pathology.


For many years, every anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstration saw several Jews wearing shtreimel and wrapped in prayer shawls, carrying posters against Israel.


This phenomenon was beautifully photographed in the reports of the television networks but did not arouse excitement - neither in Israel nor in the Jewish world.



Read this article in Hebrew: http://www.zeevgalili.com/2009/05/3520

Convicted of Kidnapping, Rabbi Faces Deportation


A rabbi who served two years in prison for kidnapping is fighting to retain refugee status in Canada, claiming that he has a “well-founded fear of persecution” if forced to return to Israel.


In 1994 an American court in Brooklyn, N.Y., convicted Rabbi Erez Shlomo Elbarnes, 41, for kidnapping a 13-year-old boy. The child’s mother had enrolled him in Elbarnes’s yeshiva for bar mitzvah lessons.


Rabbi Is Deported 5 Years After Conviction, Lawyer Says


A Hasidic rabbi on parole in Rockland County after serving a prison term for kidnapping a teenager under his tutelage was deported to Israel yesterday, even as his conviction was being appealed, his lawyer said.


The case of the rabbi, Shlomo Helbrans, has drawn widespread attention not only for the nature of the kidnapping charge, but also because of a federal investigation into whether his parole after two years in prison was the result of improper political influence on the Pataki administration.


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