JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.
UPDATE ON THE LEV TAHOR - ITS 12PM FEB 4,14 AND I JUST CHECKED MY E-MAIL AND MIRIAM HAS RESPONDED TO ME.AND SHE WOULD LIKE US TO WRITE TO THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY AND TELL THEM THIS IS NOT FAIR FOR THE RIGHT OF ALL CHILDREN AND FREEDOM OF CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH RELIGION IN CANADA.
HERE IS THE LETTER
THEY SAY THIS ISRAELI GROUP IS A CULT.BUT I THINK THEY ARE BEING DESCRIMINATED AGAINST AND ARE BEING PICKED ON BECAUSE THEIR ISRAELIS.IT SOUNDS LIKE THESE ARE FALSE ALLIGATIONS AGAINST THIS ISRAELI FAMILY GROUP.THEY CLAIM THIS GROUP ABUSES THEIR CHILDREN AND WANT TO TAKE THEM FROM THEM.I THINK IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS GROUP HOME SCHOOLING THEIR CHILDREN ALSO.I THINK THESE ISRAELIS ARE GETTING SHAFTED.AT LEAST I CAN GET THE WORD OUT SO THESE ISRAELIS DO NOT LOOK LIKE CRIMINALS.LIKE THE MEDIA IS PORTRAYING THEM.
I AM A ZIONIST CHRISTIAN THAT BELIEVES THAT GOD GAVE ISRAEL THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND WILL NEVER LET ISRAEL EVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN.OF COURSE NOT-BECAUSE JESUS OUR JEWISH GOD-KING AND MESSIAH AND SAVIOR WILL BE RULING FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM.EVEN THO THESE ISRAELIS ARE AGAINST ZIONISM.I LOVE THESE ISRAELIS AND STILL BELIEVE THEY ARE BEING SHAFTED BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTIONS.SOMEONE HAS TO GET THEIR STORY OUT AND STICK UP FOR THEM.WELL I'M TRYING TO DO MY PART TO GET THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY OUT.KEEP FIGHTING ISRAELI GROUP.I'M WITH USE.I LOVE USE ISRAELIS.
LETS PRAYS FOR THESE ISRAELIS THAT GOD STOPS ALL THE FIERY DARTS OF HATE AND PERSECUSSION AGAINST THESE PRECIOUS ISRAELIS.
LEV TAHOR
http://miriamhelbrans.com/Home/
http://levtahor.ca/home.html
WRITE LETERS OF SUPPORT FOR THESE ISRAELIS HERE
http://miriamhelbrans.com/Contact/
With the help of Hashem! (GOD-KING JESUS OUR JEWISH MESSIAH)
My name is Miriam Gittel Helbrans. I am the second daughter of Rabbi Helbrans, the Grand Rabbi of the Lev Tahor community. I live in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. I'm married and a mother of 3. I am going through a difficult time. The Youth Protection of Québec singled our entire community as a target for persecution, in order to achieve their secular agendas. Their persecution was backed up by Israeli institutions that hate us because my father, the Rabbi, is one of the most famous Jewish opponents of the Zionist regime. The Youth Protection of Québec used the excuse of schooling regulations to destruct our life by endless and senseless humiliating methods all under the cover of "investigation". As well known it ended up in finding nothing wrong in our community and then the Youth Protection of Québec called families to court to compel them to comply with the secular curriculum or to face the penalty of their kids seized for ever. As well known, all families of Lev Tahor, Implemented their long-planned contingency plan of leaving the Province of Quebec and resettling in the Province of Ontario where the laws fits the freedom of religion.
The residents of Chatham-Kent, Ontario had and still welcomed us, supporting us, praying for us and expressed understanding to our sensitive situation. We appreciate it and may Hashem (God) bless them. However, one small group of people, united under the banner of helping and supporting children, they are known as "Children's Aid Society", for reasons known only to them, they choose to sprinkle salt on our open wounds. I have no doubt that the Children's Aid Society was convinced on the high level of the care we give for our children; they know that the Quebec authorities didn’t find anything wrong after trying so hard to. Our community tried so much to cooperate with the Children's Aid Society, we open them all the doors, we let them interview again all our children and so on… The Children's Aid Society prejudged our community, thought that since we are persecuted people, we shall be easy prey for them. They start persecute us for nothing or may be for being devoted Jews. They started with the same two families that were randomly selected to be called to court in Québec. The Children's Aid Society know as a fact that the 14 children of those two families are at the best condition that is possible for a reasonable family beside that they are suffering from tremendous frustration. Why they have to be treated like criminals for being devoted Jews?
The lawyer of the Society should study a bit more the law and the Canadian Charter before hurrying to terrified innocent families for no reason. Where this hatred does stem from, that the Society lawyer overlooked the decision of the justice of peace that decide that this children should remain unharmed? why did she choose to appeal the decision on an higher court at the expense of the families? As a human being she should rater resign than committing such horrible duty. But this was just the beginning; the next victim was no other than my innocent children that were apprehended, why? You know why? Because I'm devoted Jewish mother from the devoted Jewish community called Lev Tahor! That's why the blood and pain of my children are no even worth for consideration by the Children's (afr)aid Society. Why they choose to begin to destroy my life before destroying other in the Lev Tahor, it is just a matter of finding plots, they probably do not have enough homes for keeping to many apprehended devoted Jewish children, so they must to start somewhere, grabbing some at a time for nonsense plots convert them to secularism and modernization and to grab a bit more children with some more plots… On my case, it was a permanent marker that caused the tragedy. They didn’t even sick to get a warrant, they hurried to horrify.
Don’t believe me!
Bellow you will find links to the full court files in my possession. It is PDF's. I did include both their files as well as my file and now it is up for any taxpayer to judge if his tax funded society did really concern for the safety of my children and if this was the reason for the apprehension.
At the time of the apprehension I was due to give birth. I will never be able to describe this painfully five days. Only Hashem save me from falling apart for ever.
Hashem did bless Ontario with honorable straight and true Judges that one of them ruled to immediate returning the children to my and my husband's care.However, at that time I was not in the position opposing the last minute offer from the Society to agree to a supervision order. I did agree and at the time, the honorable Judge approved the uncontested agreement as part of an interim court order. Just hours after the honorable Judge decision to return the children, I gave birth to my 3rd child, O Hashem how can I thank you, the baby born healthy and neither I nor my new born boy suffer any emotional or other health problem. It is a miracle from Hashem to show that he is in fact listening to prayers that are accompanied by tears.
Meanwhile my friends, the other innocent beloved mothers of the community, started to feel the nature of a wolf that seeks causes to scramble a sheep in any of the further daily repeated search visits and interviews, which lasts already more than 2 months just in Ontario, besides more than 3 months of unreasonable investigations by the Youth Protection in Quebec, with no any findings of abuse or neglect of any kind. But the children aid Society of Chatham says they have no intention to stop those unreasonable investigations...
The level of stress, afraid and suffer that the small boys and girls have from the unreasonable search and frightening methods, did not let the community organizers any choice but to let the Society know that they will rather being imprisoned than to let this torture campaign of the innocent children and mothers to reach the 6 month blood-red line. I was left alone on the front line of the battlefield, bounded by a court decision that was done by good faith of the honorable judge, to allow the Society do conduct visits in my home. I was so hopeful that the court hearing last Friday will resulted in releasing me from the almost assured possibility that a libel will be anyway made up since I'm the only one left bound to unwillingly 'cooperate' with the Society.
However, it was my fault of a few hours delay in filing my concerns to the honorable court that resulted to adjourn the hearings. I can not imagine my children being further terrorized by seeing again persons visit their house to look for unreasonable reasons to abduct them. I know that my lawyer will be very upset by his client violating the law and publish all court document with identifying her self and her children's name for the public. But I have no choice; I will rather pay the $10,000 fine than watching my children horrified for noting.
I must cry out to just any one, please call the Society and look for some human feeling at the Society's office and ask them please gave up the improper visits and withdraw your unjustified case against any innocent parents including Jewish devoted one.
Miriam Gittel Helbrans
Chatham, Ontario
Just take your time, please, and click the links below, read, read and read and prove your self!
UPDATE ON THE LEV TAHOR - ITS 12PM FEB 4,14 AND I JUST CHECKED MY E-MAIL AND MIRIAM HAS RESPONDED TO ME.AND SHE WOULD LIKE US TO WRITE TO THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY AND TELL THEM THIS IS NOT FAIR FOR THE RIGHT OF ALL CHILDREN AND FREEDOM OF CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH RELIGION IN CANADA.
HERE IS THE LETTER
Dear Stan,
Thank you so much for publishing my letter.
Here is a link to an interview I had today with CTV News
If
you can please write a letter, email, or fax - to the CAS asking them
to change their approach of discrimination and hate. and tell them,
please that there is a large community that will watch if they didn't
breach the freedom of religion and the freedom to live guaranteed by the
Canadian Charter.
I will also appreciate to receive a copy of such letter. Let me know if I can publish it on my site.
May Hashem Bless you
Miriam
OK CHRISTIANS-WE MUST TAKE ACTION AND WRITE LETTERS TO THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIEITY.
HERE IS THE E-MAIL ADDRESSES TO SEND YOUR LETTERS OF SUPPORT FOR THE ISRAELI LEV TAHOR GROUP AT CAS IN CHATHAM-KENT
shelley.thibert@ckcs.on.ca
<board@ckcs.on.ca>, <claudette.wyles@ckcs.on.ca>, <allison.eaton@ckcs.on.ca>, <wyles@ckcs.on.ca>, <sjtoinfo@ontario.ca>, <info@ombudsman.on.ca>,
HERES THE LETTER I SENT TO SHELLEY TO STICK UP FOR THE LEV TAHOR GROUP
TO THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY OF CHATHAM-KENT-ATT SHELLEY THIBERT-1:32PM FEB 4,2014
I STAN L BOWMAN JR OF ONTARIO CANADA WISH TO SPEAK UP FOR THE PERSECUTED ISRAELIS OF THE LEV TAHOR GROUP.WHY CAN THESE ISRAELIS NOT GET THEIR FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN CANADA.BY HOME SCHOOLING THEIR CHILDREN.THESE ISRAELIS HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG AND THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY IS GOING AFTER THEM FOR JUST HOME SCHOOLING THEIR CHILDREN.
PLEASE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY LAY OFF THESE PRECIOUS ISRAELIS SO THEY CAN DO THEIR RELIGION IN PEACE. AND LET THEM HOME SCHOOL THEIR CHILDREN LIKE THEY WANT.THE SECULAR WORLD SCHOOL SYSTEM IS CURRUPTED BY FILTH AND IMMORALITY. AND IF THEY WANT TO HOME SCHOOL THEIR CHILDREN.THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO WITHOUT BEING HASSLED FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
WERE IS THEIR FREEDOM TO THEIR RELIGION IN CANADA.I MUST ASK.CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM ARE OF THE SAME GROUP.JESUS WAS AND IS JEWISH.64 OF 66 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE WERE WRITTEN BY JEWS.SO IF WE CLAIM WE HAVE FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN CANADA TO OUR RELIGION.USE BETTER LAY OFF THESE ISRAELIS AND LET THEM DO THEIR RELIGION IN PEACE AND QUIT HASSLING THEM.
SO I ASK PLEASE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY GIVE THESE PRECIOUS ISRAELIS THEIR FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND STOP ANY COURT ACTION AGAINST THESE PEOPLE.AND LET THEM LIVE IN PEACE WITHOUT BREAKING UP THEIR FAMILY GROUP.
SINCERILY STAN L BOWMAN JR - ONTARIO CANADA
CHATHAM KENT CHILDRENS CENTER WEBSITE
http://www.ckcs.on.ca/
shelley.thibert@ckcs.on.ca
<board@ckcs.on.ca>, <claudette.wyles@ckcs.on.ca>, <allison.eaton@ckcs.on.ca>, <wyles@ckcs.on.ca>, <sjtoinfo@ontario.ca>, <info@ombudsman.on.ca>,
HERES THE LETTER I SENT TO SHELLEY TO STICK UP FOR THE LEV TAHOR GROUP
TO THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY OF CHATHAM-KENT-ATT SHELLEY THIBERT-1:32PM FEB 4,2014
I STAN L BOWMAN JR OF ONTARIO CANADA WISH TO SPEAK UP FOR THE PERSECUTED ISRAELIS OF THE LEV TAHOR GROUP.WHY CAN THESE ISRAELIS NOT GET THEIR FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN CANADA.BY HOME SCHOOLING THEIR CHILDREN.THESE ISRAELIS HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG AND THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY IS GOING AFTER THEM FOR JUST HOME SCHOOLING THEIR CHILDREN.
PLEASE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY LAY OFF THESE PRECIOUS ISRAELIS SO THEY CAN DO THEIR RELIGION IN PEACE. AND LET THEM HOME SCHOOL THEIR CHILDREN LIKE THEY WANT.THE SECULAR WORLD SCHOOL SYSTEM IS CURRUPTED BY FILTH AND IMMORALITY. AND IF THEY WANT TO HOME SCHOOL THEIR CHILDREN.THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO WITHOUT BEING HASSLED FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
WERE IS THEIR FREEDOM TO THEIR RELIGION IN CANADA.I MUST ASK.CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM ARE OF THE SAME GROUP.JESUS WAS AND IS JEWISH.64 OF 66 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE WERE WRITTEN BY JEWS.SO IF WE CLAIM WE HAVE FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN CANADA TO OUR RELIGION.USE BETTER LAY OFF THESE ISRAELIS AND LET THEM DO THEIR RELIGION IN PEACE AND QUIT HASSLING THEM.
SO I ASK PLEASE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY GIVE THESE PRECIOUS ISRAELIS THEIR FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND STOP ANY COURT ACTION AGAINST THESE PEOPLE.AND LET THEM LIVE IN PEACE WITHOUT BREAKING UP THEIR FAMILY GROUP.
SINCERILY STAN L BOWMAN JR - ONTARIO CANADA
CHATHAM KENT CHILDRENS CENTER WEBSITE
http://www.ckcs.on.ca/
| Children's Aid Society | ||||
| Organization: | Chatham-Kent Children's Services | |||
| Phone Numbers: | 519-352-0440 | |||
| Fax: | 519-351-4152 | |||
| Website: | www.ckcs.on.ca | |||
| Address: |
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CTV Windsor
Published Monday, February 3, 2014 3:20PM EST
Last Updated Monday, February 3, 2014 3:23PM EST
Published Monday, February 3, 2014 3:20PM EST
Last Updated Monday, February 3, 2014 3:23PM EST
A mother at the center of a court case involving the ultra-Orthodox
Jewish group Lev Tahor spoke out against child services, in an open
letter sent to CTV News.The letter discusses the family’s struggle since leaving Quebec in
November, amid an investigation into alleged child neglect. The woman
also talks about alleged religious persecution by the children's
services workers.Due to a court order, issued to protect the identities of those
involved with this case, sections of the letters have been blacked out.
These sections contained names, or identifying features.
Child services in Chatham was not available for comment. The Quebec
division of children's aid says they have no comment at this time.
Digital Extra
Photos
A Quebec court has ordered 14 children of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish group Lev Tahor into foster care.
THEY SAY THIS ISRAELI GROUP IS A CULT.BUT I THINK THEY ARE BEING DESCRIMINATED AGAINST AND ARE BEING PICKED ON BECAUSE THEIR ISRAELIS.IT SOUNDS LIKE THESE ARE FALSE ALLIGATIONS AGAINST THIS ISRAELI FAMILY GROUP.THEY CLAIM THIS GROUP ABUSES THEIR CHILDREN AND WANT TO TAKE THEM FROM THEM.I THINK IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS GROUP HOME SCHOOLING THEIR CHILDREN ALSO.I THINK THESE ISRAELIS ARE GETTING SHAFTED.AT LEAST I CAN GET THE WORD OUT SO THESE ISRAELIS DO NOT LOOK LIKE CRIMINALS.LIKE THE MEDIA IS PORTRAYING THEM.
I AM A ZIONIST CHRISTIAN THAT BELIEVES THAT GOD GAVE ISRAEL THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND WILL NEVER LET ISRAEL EVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN.OF COURSE NOT-BECAUSE JESUS OUR JEWISH GOD-KING AND MESSIAH AND SAVIOR WILL BE RULING FOREVER FROM JERUSALEM.EVEN THO THESE ISRAELIS ARE AGAINST ZIONISM.I LOVE THESE ISRAELIS AND STILL BELIEVE THEY ARE BEING SHAFTED BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTIONS.SOMEONE HAS TO GET THEIR STORY OUT AND STICK UP FOR THEM.WELL I'M TRYING TO DO MY PART TO GET THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY OUT.KEEP FIGHTING ISRAELI GROUP.I'M WITH USE.I LOVE USE ISRAELIS.
LETS PRAYS FOR THESE ISRAELIS THAT GOD STOPS ALL THE FIERY DARTS OF HATE AND PERSECUSSION AGAINST THESE PRECIOUS ISRAELIS.
LEV TAHOR
http://miriamhelbrans.com/Home/
http://levtahor.ca/home.html
WRITE LETERS OF SUPPORT FOR THESE ISRAELIS HERE
http://miriamhelbrans.com/Contact/
My Children Under The Spell Of CAS: The Story Of The Magic Marker.
An open letter to the public audience. -FEB 1,14
With the help of Hashem! (GOD-KING JESUS OUR JEWISH MESSIAH)
My name is Miriam Gittel Helbrans. I am the second daughter of Rabbi Helbrans, the Grand Rabbi of the Lev Tahor community. I live in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. I'm married and a mother of 3. I am going through a difficult time. The Youth Protection of Québec singled our entire community as a target for persecution, in order to achieve their secular agendas. Their persecution was backed up by Israeli institutions that hate us because my father, the Rabbi, is one of the most famous Jewish opponents of the Zionist regime. The Youth Protection of Québec used the excuse of schooling regulations to destruct our life by endless and senseless humiliating methods all under the cover of "investigation". As well known it ended up in finding nothing wrong in our community and then the Youth Protection of Québec called families to court to compel them to comply with the secular curriculum or to face the penalty of their kids seized for ever. As well known, all families of Lev Tahor, Implemented their long-planned contingency plan of leaving the Province of Quebec and resettling in the Province of Ontario where the laws fits the freedom of religion.
The residents of Chatham-Kent, Ontario had and still welcomed us, supporting us, praying for us and expressed understanding to our sensitive situation. We appreciate it and may Hashem (God) bless them. However, one small group of people, united under the banner of helping and supporting children, they are known as "Children's Aid Society", for reasons known only to them, they choose to sprinkle salt on our open wounds. I have no doubt that the Children's Aid Society was convinced on the high level of the care we give for our children; they know that the Quebec authorities didn’t find anything wrong after trying so hard to. Our community tried so much to cooperate with the Children's Aid Society, we open them all the doors, we let them interview again all our children and so on… The Children's Aid Society prejudged our community, thought that since we are persecuted people, we shall be easy prey for them. They start persecute us for nothing or may be for being devoted Jews. They started with the same two families that were randomly selected to be called to court in Québec. The Children's Aid Society know as a fact that the 14 children of those two families are at the best condition that is possible for a reasonable family beside that they are suffering from tremendous frustration. Why they have to be treated like criminals for being devoted Jews?
The lawyer of the Society should study a bit more the law and the Canadian Charter before hurrying to terrified innocent families for no reason. Where this hatred does stem from, that the Society lawyer overlooked the decision of the justice of peace that decide that this children should remain unharmed? why did she choose to appeal the decision on an higher court at the expense of the families? As a human being she should rater resign than committing such horrible duty. But this was just the beginning; the next victim was no other than my innocent children that were apprehended, why? You know why? Because I'm devoted Jewish mother from the devoted Jewish community called Lev Tahor! That's why the blood and pain of my children are no even worth for consideration by the Children's (afr)aid Society. Why they choose to begin to destroy my life before destroying other in the Lev Tahor, it is just a matter of finding plots, they probably do not have enough homes for keeping to many apprehended devoted Jewish children, so they must to start somewhere, grabbing some at a time for nonsense plots convert them to secularism and modernization and to grab a bit more children with some more plots… On my case, it was a permanent marker that caused the tragedy. They didn’t even sick to get a warrant, they hurried to horrify.
Don’t believe me!
Bellow you will find links to the full court files in my possession. It is PDF's. I did include both their files as well as my file and now it is up for any taxpayer to judge if his tax funded society did really concern for the safety of my children and if this was the reason for the apprehension.
At the time of the apprehension I was due to give birth. I will never be able to describe this painfully five days. Only Hashem save me from falling apart for ever.
Hashem did bless Ontario with honorable straight and true Judges that one of them ruled to immediate returning the children to my and my husband's care.However, at that time I was not in the position opposing the last minute offer from the Society to agree to a supervision order. I did agree and at the time, the honorable Judge approved the uncontested agreement as part of an interim court order. Just hours after the honorable Judge decision to return the children, I gave birth to my 3rd child, O Hashem how can I thank you, the baby born healthy and neither I nor my new born boy suffer any emotional or other health problem. It is a miracle from Hashem to show that he is in fact listening to prayers that are accompanied by tears.
Meanwhile my friends, the other innocent beloved mothers of the community, started to feel the nature of a wolf that seeks causes to scramble a sheep in any of the further daily repeated search visits and interviews, which lasts already more than 2 months just in Ontario, besides more than 3 months of unreasonable investigations by the Youth Protection in Quebec, with no any findings of abuse or neglect of any kind. But the children aid Society of Chatham says they have no intention to stop those unreasonable investigations...
The level of stress, afraid and suffer that the small boys and girls have from the unreasonable search and frightening methods, did not let the community organizers any choice but to let the Society know that they will rather being imprisoned than to let this torture campaign of the innocent children and mothers to reach the 6 month blood-red line. I was left alone on the front line of the battlefield, bounded by a court decision that was done by good faith of the honorable judge, to allow the Society do conduct visits in my home. I was so hopeful that the court hearing last Friday will resulted in releasing me from the almost assured possibility that a libel will be anyway made up since I'm the only one left bound to unwillingly 'cooperate' with the Society.
However, it was my fault of a few hours delay in filing my concerns to the honorable court that resulted to adjourn the hearings. I can not imagine my children being further terrorized by seeing again persons visit their house to look for unreasonable reasons to abduct them. I know that my lawyer will be very upset by his client violating the law and publish all court document with identifying her self and her children's name for the public. But I have no choice; I will rather pay the $10,000 fine than watching my children horrified for noting.
I must cry out to just any one, please call the Society and look for some human feeling at the Society's office and ask them please gave up the improper visits and withdraw your unjustified case against any innocent parents including Jewish devoted one.
Miriam Gittel Helbrans
Chatham, Ontario
Please, Don't Believe Me At All!
Just take your time, please, and click the links below, read, read and read and prove your self!
CAS filings against Miriam Helbrans (194 Pages)
My defence reply (90 Pages)
My Affidavit (92 Pages)
Biography of Adam Brudzevsky, who the CAS used (Informally) as the only prosecution witness against Lev Tahor in my case. (4 Pages)
http://miriamhelbrans.com/openletter-1/
Lev Tahor child removal order upheld by Ontario judge
Children will stay with families in Chatham-Kent pending appeal period
CBC News
Posted: Feb 03, 2014 3:05 PM ET
Last Updated: Feb 03, 2014 9:26 PM ET
Uriel Goldman, a spokesman for the Lev Tahor members, says the
community feels persecuted for its
An Ontario judge has upheld a Quebec ruling ordering 13 children in
the Lev Tahor sect to be surrendered to child welfare authorities. However, the children will remain in Chatham-Kent with their families pending a 30-day appeal period. "We’re disappointed," Chris Knowles, the lawyer representing the Lev
Tahor families, said outside the Chatham, Ont., courthouse. "It’s not
the ruling we expected. It’s not the ruling that we hoped for. We have
to talk among ourselves to decide what the next step is."Child welfare officials are to make spot checks with the families to
make sure they haven't fled, Justice Stephen Fuerth ordered. If no appeal is filed, the children will be removed and placed in foster care.Knowles said he is not sure there are grounds for appeal at this
point, but he said his clients will consider all of their options. "We just received the judgment, there’s a lot in there, so we need to decide whether there are any appealable issues," he said.Around 200 members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community fled their
homes in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts last November in the middle of the
night, amid an investigation by Quebec social services into the
well-being of several of their children.The Quebec court ordered the return of the children from three
families after they had left Quebec. The Ontario court was considering
whether that decision should be upheld.
The families are appealing the Quebec court decision and, if they are successful, it could render the Ontario decision moot, Knowles said.
They have said that home-schooling in Ontario offers parents much more freedom to teach what they want, and the group wants to stay there."We’re not fighting against [the Quebec government], we’re just fighting in favour of our religion and other religious groups to have the possibility to have religious studies as our education," said Uriel Goldman, a spokesman for the Lev Tahor members.He said the families prayed as they awaited the decision. “We do claim again and again all the allegations against us are false.… After so many months and months, hundreds of hours have been spent by officials, how is it that nothing was found? We do feel persecuted."He said the group feels anti-Semitism explains the reason they were targeted.
None of those allegations have been proven in court.Social workers who had been involved with the community in Quebec during the 18 months since youth protection services launched an investigation testified that the group’s departure in November was hasty and shocking. They had a meeting with group members planned for the day after they packed up and moved.
The families are appealing the Quebec court decision and, if they are successful, it could render the Ontario decision moot, Knowles said.
Well-being of children questioned
Sect members say they left Quebec due to conflicts with the government over their school curriculum.They have said that home-schooling in Ontario offers parents much more freedom to teach what they want, and the group wants to stay there."We’re not fighting against [the Quebec government], we’re just fighting in favour of our religion and other religious groups to have the possibility to have religious studies as our education," said Uriel Goldman, a spokesman for the Lev Tahor members.He said the families prayed as they awaited the decision. “We do claim again and again all the allegations against us are false.… After so many months and months, hundreds of hours have been spent by officials, how is it that nothing was found? We do feel persecuted."He said the group feels anti-Semitism explains the reason they were targeted.
Social workers concerned for children's health
However, social workers in Quebec painted an entirely different picture of the community. Youth protection officials in Quebec’s Laurentians region said there were concerns about the children's health, their hygiene and shortcomings in their home-schooling.Social workers also testified in Quebec youth court that they were concerned about the age at which some of the girls in the group were allegedly married off and also about reports of intimidation by the community’s leaders. They also told the court about some reported incidents involving children being given melatonin, a purported natural sleep aid, to control their behaviour.None of those allegations have been proven in court.Social workers who had been involved with the community in Quebec during the 18 months since youth protection services launched an investigation testified that the group’s departure in November was hasty and shocking. They had a meeting with group members planned for the day after they packed up and moved.
