Race bias ruling shakes up Jewish schools (Guardian Unlimited)

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The chief rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, is instructing all Jewish schools to incorporate religious observance test in their admissions policy after the high court ruled that the entry criteria of Europe's largest Jewish school were racist. jewish boy, known as M, was denied a place at JFS, in north-west London, because the United Synagogue regarded his mother's conversion to Judaism as invalid. But ...

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