Canadian Press NewsAlert: Lev Tahor wins appeal in child protection case

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Members of the Lev Tahor ultra-orthodox Jewish community walk children home from school classes in Chatham, Ont., Feb. 3, 2014. An Ontario judge has "grave" concerns about the welfare of children in an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect, she wrote Monday even as she allowed an appeal from their parents. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley

CHATHAM, Ont. – A judge in Ontario has ordered that a group of children in an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect do not have to be sent to Quebec.

The judge overturned an earlier court decision ordering the Lev Tahor children placed in foster care in Quebec, where the group fled late last year amid a child protection case.

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