{"id":2256,"date":"2008-02-14T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T00:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2008-02-14T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T00:52:31","slug":"jewish-school-accused-on-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2256","title":{"rendered":"Jewish school accused on admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/cgi-bin\/iowa\/news\/article\/20080212londonrace.html\">From JTA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A        prestigious Jewish school in London was accused of discrimination for        refusing to accept the daughter of a convert.<\/p>\n<p>The JFS,        formerly known as the Jewish Free School, rejected the application of a        girl whose mother is a convert to Judaism and a teacher in the school, the        Times of London reported Tuesday. Her father is an Orthodox Jew.<\/p>\n<p>The office        of the chief rabbi, which acts as the school&#8217;s religious authority, does        not recognize the mother&#8217;s conversion, which took place more than 20 years        ago under the auspices of the same office.<\/p>\n<p>The parents,        David and Kate Lightman, say the north London school has violated British        race laws and have requested a judicial review in the High Court regarding        the admissions policy of the school, the largest Orthodox Jewish school in        Europe with about 2,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>The Times        reported that children from two other families were refused admission        based on questions about conversions. The school, which receives        government funding, says the refusals were based on religion, not  race.<\/p>\n<p>The        Lightmans have been battling for admission on behalf of their daughter,        now 13, for four years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From JTA: A prestigious Jewish school in London was accused of discrimination for refusing to accept the daughter of a convert. The JFS, formerly known as the Jewish Free School, rejected the application of a girl whose mother is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2256\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,609,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-england","category-orthodoxy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}