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The Judges are protectors of those of Jewish faith from the monsters that stalk the night. They act in a similar manner to the Society of Leopold.

Overview[]

Drawing their name and their traditions from the biblical Judges, they fight against what they perceive as the brood of Lilith. They use the Torah and a special version of the Talmud as their resources for their fight against the unnatural. Due to the low Jewish percentage in most countries, the Judges operate in small groups without central coordination.

The Judges tend to ignore mages; infernalists, shapechangers and vampires are their true targets. The Judges has recently come into renewed conflict with Anatolian Bahari cults and Sabbat packs following the Path of Lilith at the Mexican border.

Organization[]

Originally, most Judges were lone wolves against the creatures of darkness, focusing to protect one specific community, the foundation of Israel has given the Judges a far more efficient and organized network of hunters, with a hierarchy centered in Tel Aviv. They have even received covert government sanction from Israel, and receive monetary aid and religious support both in the Middle East and from the Rabbinical Council of America. The organization has grown large enough to subdivide into specialties, including Kabbalists, information and intelligence-gathering agents, scouts and covert strike units, and heavily-armed soldiers.

Some Judges, however, refuse to take part of it, believing the new organization a ruse of their enemies to concentrate them at one point to move against them.

History[]

In the nation of Israel and all across the world, hunters of the Jewish faith have banded together to protect innocents from harm. This organization is known as The Judges, styling themselves after Biblical tradition of the Shoftim, following Talmudic doctrine and the scripture of the Torah. In addition to these sacred writings, the Judges have inherited a great deal of collected wisdom contained in a secret Talmud; a compilation of teachings and arguments of earlier Judges. Unlike other hunter groups, the Judges have enough information to tell the difference between the different types of magic used by vampires. They use this knowledge to track down infernalist sorcerers, the so-called “Children of Lilith,” and demon-worshippers, whom they consider to be top-priority targets. Historical accounts speak of Judges working with other vampires in order to destroy one of these greater evils. Although such alliances never last beyond the destruction of the demonic target, the Judges have proven themselves true to their word, and keep their bargains.

Over the last ten years, much has changed. The Judges have gone from a small group with no centralized authority to a far more efficient and organized network of hunters, with a hierarchy centered in Tel Aviv. They have even received covert government sanction from Israel, and receive monetary aid and religious support both in the Middle East and from the Rabbinical Council of America. The organization has grown large enough to subdivide into specialties, including Kabbalists (who have fewer moral qualms about the study and application of Theurgy than do their Christian counterparts), information and intelligence-gathering agents, scouts and covert strike units, and heavily-armed soldiers.

Still, the Judges are an organization in transition, and not everyone is pleased with the new direction. Greater organization means more hierarchy, and that means taking orders –something independent and self-reliant hunters do not accept easily. It has been hard to convince some cells of Jewish hunters that it is in their best interest to be part of this new structure, and more than one group has gone rogue, rejecting all offers of alliance. One particularly renowned hunter in Dallas, a woman named Kess Aronowicz, not only rejected the offer but also claimed to have seen proof that the new hierarchy was a result of powerful Kindred seizing control of the organization. She has promised to locate these vampires and destroy them.

Currently, the Judges of Israel are engaged in an especially bitter war with a group of vampires known as the Bahari, who purport to be a cult of vampires and mortals that worship the demoness Lilith. This war is being fought primarily on two fronts. The smaller conflict is along the northern borders of Sabbat-controlled Mexico, where small cults of relatively young Bahari have been found. The bigger and much more dangerous one is in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey, where individual Lilith-worshipping vampires – almost always female, as well as much older and more powerful than the individuals in the smaller cults – have recently been discovered. Thus far, there seems to be no connection between these two groups of Kindred other than a common adherence to the strictures of the Bahari religion.

References[]

Witch-hunter orgs
Coalition orgs USA: FIRSTLIGHT/SAD/IAO · Brazil: BOES/PMEX · Russia: GRU-N58/Akritai/Unit 242 · UK: Newburgh Group/JTRG/SO13 · Vatican: La Entità/Society of St. Leopold · Bureau IX · Calcédoine · G-Kontoret · HSP · TID · Unit 8211
Academic orgs Arcanum
Corporate orgs Chopra-wafadar · Fada · Monster-X · Neo Albion · Orpheus Group · Re:Venge · Strike Force Zero
Government orgs DAAE · Division Six · GSG 10 · Manila DoJ-SRP · Project Twilight
Religious orgs Ikhwan al-Safa · The Judges · Nails of Christ · Order of the Rose · Society of St. George
Vigilante orgs Cog Conspiracy · D-Club · Duffy Family · ECLIPSE · Mortician's Army · Toussaint Brigade

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