Around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, Brooklyn-based activist Adina Sash received a phone call she had long awaited: Malky Berkowitz, 29, a fellow Orthodox woman, had finally received a “get,” or Jewish divorce contract. For Sash, better known on Instagram as…[Continue Reading...]
In a move that has the potential to shake up the religious landscape of the area, an Upper West Side synagogue has sold its building to a controversial Christian group hailing from South Korea, Crain’s New York Business reports. Romemu…[Continue Reading...]
NEW YORK — Chanting “Shame on you, Israeli government,” some 2,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews from upstate and New York City protested Thursday evening in front of the Consulate General of Israel on Second Avenue in Manhattan in opposition to Israel’s war…[Continue Reading...]
This real estate listing is out of this world. An odd Brooklyn building that’s painted yellow and covered in ancient Egyptian motifs has hit the market — but it has a dark history as the home of a UFO-believing cult…[Continue Reading...]
For-sale signs have been affixed around what appears to be one of the last public outposts of the Nuwaubian Nation in Brooklyn; an ominous, windowless, sand-colored compound on 717 Bushwick Avenue affixed with equally large Egyptian imagery, cartoon-blue window panels…[Continue Reading...]
A creepy sex cult that branded women like cattle was founded in Upstate New York. A famous television actress was also involved in the crimes committed by the cult, which targeted and coerced women into joining it and becoming "sex…[Continue Reading...]
Leaders of a Jewish fundamentalist cult were sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for kidnapping two kids— including a child bride – then smuggling them into Mexico, prosecutors said. Three brothers, who are members of the Lev Tahor…[Continue Reading...]
The feds are “criminalizing sex” and looking to put people “in prison for funsies” by prosecuting the two glamorous leaders of embattled “sexual wellness” empire OneTaste, their lawyers claimed Wednesday. “I would say the government is trying to criminalize sex.…[Continue Reading...]
A 30-year-old NYC woman accused of stabbed her 70-year-old father to death at his Queens home earlier this month told police that he was in a cult and had sexually abused her. Anna Cavak fled to New Jersey after the incident…[Continue Reading...]
BY MARY REINHOLZ | A lurid exhibit in Union Square, site of the city’s largest Greenmarket, ended Sunday, after a weeklong presentation attacking psychiatry as an evil industry with a history mired in racism and “dangerous” practices, including excessive use of…[Continue Reading...]
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