In October 2006, a Jewish father made enquiries with the
United Synagogue as to whether his son, born to a mother who had been converted to Judaism under the auspices of the
Masorti (Conservative) denomination, could convert under
Orthodox auspices for entry to JFS in September 2007. He was advised the process could take several years and that such applications to JFS are very rarely successful given that the school is highly oversubscribed. He applied for his son but did not declare to the school's admissions board the mother's conversion history. By April 2007, he had not supplied JFS with the requested information, and the school advised him that, being oversubscribed that year, it was unlikely his son could be offered a place. He then unsuccessfully appealed for reconsideration of his application. In July 2008, the father sought to prosecute JFS on the grounds of
racial discrimination, but
High Court judge, Mr Justice Munby, ruled against him, holding JFS' selection criteria were not intrinsically different from
Christian or
Islamic faith schools and their being declared illegal could adversely affect "the admission arrangements in a very large number of faith schools of many different faiths and denominations". The
Court of Appeal, however, in June 2009 declared that JFS, under the
Race Relations Act 1976, had illegally discriminated against the child on grounds of race. They ruled that the mother's religious status, and thus her child's religious status, had been determined using a racial criterion rather than a religious criterion.{{cite BAILII ==Alleged 2026 anti-Semitic incident==