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BBC: National Action: 'Miss Hitler' hopeful among four jailed
Jewish Insider: Inside the secret double lives of some Hasidic Jews
Sun Journal: 'Retired cult leader' says he's quitting public life
"A "Miss Hitler" beauty pageant entrant and her ex-partner have been jailed for being members of the banned far-right terrorist group National Action.
Alice Cutter, 23, and Mark Jones, 25, were convicted of membership of a terrorist group in March, alongside co-accused Garry Jack and Connor Scothern.
National Action, founded in 2013, was outlawed in 2016 after it celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.
Cutter was jailed for three years and Jones for five and a half years.
At Birmingham Crown Court, Jack, 24, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and Scothern, 19, was detained for 18 months.
Judge Paul Farrer QC told Jones he had played "a significant role in the continuation of the organisation" after its ban in December 2016.
The judge told Cutter she "never held an organisational or leadership role" but said she was a "trusted confidante" of one the group's leaders, as well as being in a "committed relationship" with Jones."
Jewish Insider: Inside the secret double lives of some Hasidic Jews
Ayala Fader's new book studies the 'Hidden Heretics' who have lost their faith but choose to stay in the community.
"While conducting research for her new book, anthropologist Ayala Fader had to occasionally don a long skirt, button-down blouse, stockings and hat.
Like her subjects, Fader was playing a part she didn't believe in. But unlike them, when she got home, she changed back into her own clothing. For the better part of five years, Fader devoted herself to researching and writing Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age. The book, published today, features members of the Hasidic Jewish community who lead secretive double lives, deeply questioning their religion but not fully leaving that world behind.
Fader, a professor of anthropology at Fordham University, wrote her first book — Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn — about how young Hasidic girls are raised today. That research eventually led her to discover an intriguing phenomenon within the community.
"I learned that there was this category of people who didn't leave, but who had lost their faith and who were living double lives," Fader told Jewish Insider in a recent interview. "I began to hear about certain changes going on in those communities that I got really interested in, particularly the pushback against the internet from rabbinic leadership."
Over the course of several years, Fader met and corresponded with dozens of those she categorizes as "hidden heretics," Hasidic men and women who have questioned or abandoned their faith but still remain within the community, hiding their thoughts and transgressions from friends, families and neighbors — and sometimes even their spouses and children.
Hidden Heretics takes a close look at the role the internet has played in facilitating this trend, from the early anonymous Hasidic bloggers, to those who went online to organize secret meetups and the current Whatsapp groups connecting like-minded individuals."
Sun Journal: 'Retired cult leader' says he's quitting public life
Gary Blankenship, who created a stir in St. Agatha over the winter, vows to settle quietly with his family far from the spotlight.
"Purported cult leader Gary Blankenship, who caused a stir in northern Maine over the winter, said Wednesday he's ready to pack it in.
"The show's over," he said from a temporary home in West Virginia.
Calling himself, with a chuckle, "a retired cult leader," the 36-year-old Blankenship said he plans to move with his wife and daughter somewhere where they can live quietly.
His goal, he said, is to chill someplace out of sight from the many fans and foes he's made over the years through his travels and talks on Facebook.
Blankenship left Maine in March after residents of St. Agatha made it clear they didn't want him to set up a community in the area for followers to gather.
He was later arrested in Codington County, South Dakota, in April on a warrant issued for his arrest in Tennessee, apparently related to a dispute about a vehicle he is alleged to have stolen."
"Two siblings from Idaho have been missing for months and their mother, Lori Vallow, has now been arrested in connection with their disappearance.
A prosecutor in the case of the two missing Idaho children confirmed Wednesday that the human remains found on the property of Chad Daybell are the remains of children.
Extended family members of both children have said the bodies belong to the missing children – Joshua "JJ" Vallow and Tylee Ryan – according to a joint statement published by Phoenix television station KSAZ-TV and EastIdahoNews.com.
Authorities have not yet confirmed the identities of the two sets of human remains found Tuesday while executing a search warrant at Daybell's house and said autopsies were pending.
"We are aware that those remains are the remains of children," prosecutor Rob Wood said at an initial hearing Wednesday."
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