Court Case: Lev Tahor

Lev Tahor: Much of the Lev Tahor community of about 200 people left their homes in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Que., in the middle of the night days after a child welfare agency started a court case against a couple of families, involving 14 children, according to Huffington Post. When the children's aid society here went to court to ask that the Quebec court order be enforced, Lev Tahor argued that Ontario had no jurisdiction and Ont. - Children from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect must be turned over to child protection authorities in Quebec, where a court had ordered that they be placed in foster care, an Ontario judge ruled Monday. In their absence, the court in Quebec ruled in November that the children be placed in care for 30 days, but the insular community had already settled in Chatham, Ont. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.