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Supreme Court of the United Kingdom: To Be or Not To Be Jewish: The UK Supreme Court Answers the Question; Judgment of 16 December 2009, R v The Governing Body of JFS, 2009 UKSC 15
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Mancini, Susanna |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | On 16 December 2009, the UK Supreme Court held a state-funded Jewish school to be guilty of discrimination based on ethnic origin in the way it operated its admissions policies. The Jewish Free School (JFS), one of the top-performing schools in the country, refused a place to a thirteen year old boy, M., because it did not consider him Jewish. It is a fundamental tenet of traditional Judaism that to be Jewish one must be born of Jewish mother or to a woman who converted into Judaism prior to his/her birth. M.'s father was Jewish by birth, but his mother, who was originally an Italian Catholic, had converted to Judaism with the criteria set by a non-orthodox branch of Judaism. The School's admissions standards only recognized orthodox criteria for conversion as valid, hence deeming neither M. nor his mother to be Jewish. |
| Related Links | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/00B280DEA77824239394F4477AD9BB3B/S1574019610300071a.pdf/div-class-title-supreme-court-of-the-united-kingdom-to-be-or-not-to-be-jewish-the-uk-supreme-court-answers-the-question-judgment-of-16-december-2009-span-class-italic-r-span-v-span-class-italic-the-governing-body-of-jfs-span-2009-uksc-15-div.pdf |
| Ending Page | 502 |
| Page Count | 22 |
| Starting Page | 481 |
| ISSN | 15740196 |
| e-ISSN | 17445515 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1574019610300071 |
| Journal | European Constitutional Law Review |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2010-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | European Constitutional Law Review Uk Supreme Court United Kingdom Race Relations Act 1976 discrimination Law European Court of Human Rights |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Law |
