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  • Members of Jewish sect leave Guatemala village

    08/29/2014 3:31:56 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 15 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Aug 29, 2014 6:25 PM EDT
    Members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group have been forced out of a village in western Guatemala after disputes with indigenous residents over cultural and religious differences. Misael Santos of the Lev Tahor community says the Jewish group started leaving San Juan La Laguna on Friday after the town’s Elders Council voted to kick them out. …
  • Small Guatemalan Town Uses Nazi-Esque Tactics to Expel Jews

    05/28/2014 12:29:03 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 25 replies
    INN ^ | 5/28/2014, 4:00 PM | Tova Dvorin
    As an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) poll revealed earlier this month demonstrated, anti-Semitism is a worldwide phenomenon. And while a focus on anti-Semitism has cropped up in Europe and in the Middle East, at least one group of Jews in Guatemala were brave enough to speak of their own plight in the Central American press. Over thirty Jews are being expelled from San Juan La Laguna, a small Guatemalan town—all at the express request of the locals. …