https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/still-cult-y-after-all-these-years/
Still cult-y after all these years
Checking in with a leader of long-running local post-cult support group
One Jewish group that has straddled the line between religion and cult is Lev Tahor. The group, founded by Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, who since has died, has become most notorious for cloaking women and girls over 3 years old in black, head-to-toe, burqa-like coverings โ and for repeated brushes with legal authorities, most recently involving the arrest of a Lev Tahor member for kidnapping two of Rabbi Helbransโ grandchildren, after their mother โ his daughter โ tried to remove them from the group after she objected to the forced marriage of her 13-year-old daughter.