An Orthodox Jewish school has been told it must stop asking parents about their sex lives in its admission process.
Rabbis at Hasmonean High School currently ask parents if they "observe the laws of family purity" before they approve whether their children attend the institution.
The question has been slammed as unfairly invasive, unreasonable, and irrelevant by people wanting to enrol their children in the faith school.
A member of the local Jewish community told the Fair Admissions Campaign: "As a prospective parent applying to the school, I was shocked to see that they thought it either appropriate or relevant to ask about adherence to these rules.
"Not simply due to their extremely intimate nature, but also because they don't affect anyone apart from husband and wife."
The government regulator, the Office of the Schools Adjudicator, ordered the school on Wednesday last week to stop asking the probing question by February 2016.
Boys and girls are taught on separate campuses at the pious school where orthodox Jewish kids are taught from the ages of 11-18.
Hasmonean High School had argued in the report: "This test of religious practice is an established and appropriate test of religious observance which would be entirely clear to an observant Jew and is in no way embarrassing or intrusive."
Boys and girls are taught on separate campuses at the pious school where orthodox Jewish kids are taught from the ages of 11-18.
Hasmonean High School had argued in the report: "This test of religious practice is an established and appropriate test of religious observance which would be entirely clear to an observant Jew and is in no way embarrassing or intrusive."
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