The following is via BlackBurnNews:
A Quebec Provincial Court has issued apprehension orders for all 128 Lev Tahor children.
Youth protection officials in Quebec tell BlackburnNews.com the orders were issued in November of 2013, after the group fled the province.
“Those orders have been transferred to the Chatham-Kent Children’s Services,” says Director of Communications for the Laurentian Youth Center Isabelle Dugre. “For the moment, we do not know what will be the action of CKCS regarding those orders.”
The youth centre declined to comment further as members of the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect await a judge’s decision in an on-going custody case involving 14 children.
The children and their parents fled Chatham-Kent after an Ontario judge upheld a Quebec court order forcing them into foster care. Six are in Guatemala where they are reportedly seeking refugee status, six were apprehended in Trinidad and Tobago and another two were discovered at the Calgary International Airport. A 17-year-old girl has since been released from custody, but her infant child remains in foster care with a Jewish family near Toronto, as do the other children.
A decision in that case is expected on Monday.
Leaders of the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect continue to deny all allegations of child brides, forced marriages, neglect and abuse.
(Source: Blackburnnews)
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STOP calling them “ultra-orthodox”. There is NOTHING ultra-orthodox about them.
I guess no freedom of religion in Quebec.
Protection from what? They don’t need protection from their families only from the Canadian authorities who are persecuting them. Read this week’s informative article on Lev Tahor in the Ami Magazine and realize the truth. This is about religious freedom plain and simple and if they are targeted now, who is next?
Basmelech, I agree.
Basmelech,
No need to express your opinion in the name of a local Magazine. In fact, if what brings you to realize in what you believe about this cult is what an author of a magazine influences you, I think you can read the Mishpacha Magazine from a few weeks ago, and get a different perspective on them.
Say your opinion out of what you believe is true, no need to Advertise a local Magazine.
They lived for how long in Quebec, in Saint Agathe, and the government there had no interest in them.
What happened to change that all?
Canadian Jewish Congress, the State of Israel, and other “jewish” interest groups put them in their sights, and went after them. They appealed to the government in Quebec to go after them.
One reason is they homeschool their daughters, raising them to be housewives and mothers. This is simply stepping back to the pre-Beit Yaakov era, of 80-90 years ago. Jewish communities only began creating schools for orthodox girls, when in Europe they were starting to go to secular state schools, and were doing their homework on Shabbat. Beit Yaakov which was started not because girls chouls be in school, but in order to draw off the derech girls back to the derech, is now taking every girl, from the off the derech to the Rebbes daughters. These people have full support from halacha and true jewish approach, to do this.
Secondly they upset the all wondeful State of Israel, with their anti-State activities, with Neturei Karta. Some of the guys in the community fly to Iran, and spend time in Belgium and so on. They also tried to bring 2 gals from their circles to the community in Quebec, via Jordan since the State would not allow them to leave through Ben Gurion. This really ticked off the State.
So, some powerful entities have taken issue with them, and have prodded and convinced Quebec to go after them. Before this, Quebec had no interest, did not care.
To spice things up and get media and popular approval for converging on them, allegations of child abuse are invented, to grease the wheels.
Sadly different “religious” jewish media have been simply sharing allegations and spawning hatred and misinformation against this community.
to anonymous #5 – My opinion happens to be in agreement with the article in Ami and I am glad someone wrote an article in favor of Lev Tahor without all the negativeness. I happen to know this community very well and it is very sad to see so many people speaking against them without ever having met them. Whatever one thinks about their approach to Yiddishkeit it doesn’t merit them to have have loshon horah and motzei shem rah spewed about by otherwise frum Jews who have no compunctions about looking down on them just because they are different than them. How come no one gets all upset whrn less frum people bring up their kids to dress untsniudik, have boys and girls mingle etc? Isn’t that worse than being ultra frum? Jews are supposed to be kind and caring about one another and there is no heter to speak bad of someone else even if you think his ways are strange (according to your personal feelings and not because the Torah says so). The Mishpacha article I did not read and even if I did it would not change my opinion because as I said I know the families of this community and I understand what they are trying to accomplish. It is possible that the Mishpacha article borders on motzei shem rah as I infer from your statement.
I have yet to see the smoking gun on these people. As I see them, they should not be treated any different than the Amish people.
Do I practice that way of life? No, but I don’t claim child abuse because they are living like the people of the 1800ds.
The worst part of this story are the people who find it necessary to bash frum Yidden on any given moment without giving them the benefit of the doubt. They don’t realize to the goy they are the same