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Issues for Migrant Children
Here’s a story published in the Washington Post, written by Ingrid Brown of the Jamaica Observer: “Far from their island, Jamaican children struggle with new expectations.”
Who is a Jew, for school admission purposes?
One intractable problem in multiculturalism has been the boundary problem: when religious or cultural groups have public recognition and some measure of authority or control over group members or public resources, how are the boundaries of group membership defined? This is a long-standing problem in countries like Israel that regulate many family law questions based on religious law, and it occasionally crops [...]
