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Judge orders Canadian sect members to return to Quebec for hearing

By JTA

NOVEMBER 26, 2013 15:15

A judge has ordered members of an extremist haredi Orthodox sect to return to Quebec for a court hearing on allegations of child neglect.

The members of Lev Tahor, or Pure Heart, left their homes in Ste. Agathe in Quebec early last week out of fear that Canadian welfare authorities would take their children. The Canadian media reported over the weekend that the group of 200, including more than 130 children, would make its home in Chatham-Kent, a southwestern Ontario town of 108,000, several hundred miles from Quebec. Many of the families have already leased homes in the community, the Star reported.

Two of the 40 families have been ordered to return for a hearing with child protection officials on Wednesday, the Toronto Star reported Monday. The families will return for the hearing, Nachman Helbrans, son of the community’s leader, Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, told the newspaper.

Sect members told the Canadian media that they made the move due to a dispute with education authorities in Quebec over the curriculum they were being required to teach the children, who are home schooled, including subjects such as evolution.

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