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Uriel Goldman and Lev Tahor

Lev Tahor: Six children and their parents appeared before a judge on Monday, after police picked up the family members three days earlier at a hotel in the tourist town of Panajachel . , according to CBC. Uriel Goldman, a spokesman for the Lev Tahor group in Canada, told News that the judge in the Guatemalan town of Solola decided there was no reason to send the children back to Canada. Family under surveillance A family court judge in Guatemala is allowing nine members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect to stay in the country. The group fled their homes in Chatham , Ont. about two weeks ago while awaiting a court ruling in Ontario. Some Lev Tahor members appealed a case where an Ontario judge upheld a Quebec court order to have 13 children places in foster care . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.