Lev Tahor

Lev Tahor: Ont. - Two families in an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect whose children were ordered removed from their custody have left Canada before a court here could decide whether to execute that order, according to an email obtained by The Canadian Press. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. An appeal of that order was scheduled to be heard Wednesday in Chatham, Ont., but instead a lawyer for the local children's aid authority brought an emergency motion, which prompted a closed-door hearing with the judge. Members of the Lev Tahor ultra-orthodox Jewish sect walk down a street while an emergency motion in the child custody case is held at the courthouse in Chatham, Ont., Wednesday, March 5, 2014. THE Dave Chidley Related Items Articles Most of the Lev Tahor kids at centre of custody case have left Canada: police An Ontario judge ordered last month that 13 Lev Tahor children be turned over to child protection authorities in Quebec, where the community had previously been based, and where a court had ordered they be placed in foster care. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.