June 18, 2010 6:11 PM

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Ultra-orthdox Jews demonstrate against court ruling?

In Israel, thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews have demonstrated against a court ruling that forces the integration of a religious girls' school.At the centre of the dispute is an Orthodox school in the Emanuel Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank where parents from the strictly observant Slonim Hassidic sect of Ashkenazi Jewry refused to let their children attend school with other girls of Sephardim Jews whom they consider not religious enough. The court rejected that argument and ordered the jailing of at least 43 sets of Ashkenazi parents refusing to send their daughters back to school.

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