Petah Tikva, Israel – The Israeli Association for Ethiopian Jews sent out an urgent request for the nation’s chief rabbis to intervene on behalf of the Ethiopian children who have been refused admittance to religious schools in Petah Tikva.
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In a letter sent to Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger, the IAEJ asks for the rabbis’ personal engagement in stopping what they describe as a sin against innocent children.
The letter comes to the defense of the roughly 100 children who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia with their parents in recent years and who are required to attend religious schools as part of their conversion process.
“To our great sorrow, the children of the Ethiopian olim are not allowed to enter the gates of some of the religious educational institutions in Petah Tikva. We would ask the honorable chief rabbis: Are these children, whose parents underwent a stringent process of conversion for two or more years, not good enough to study in all the religious and haredi schools in Petah Tikva?” read the letter.
#1 : How can you make such a generalization? I’ve met ethiopians shtaiging in yeshivas. H’ ierachem on you for saying such a thing.
I knew this will be the outcome, Stupidly Israel imported a racial problem that will
haunt them for generations just like here in the U.S.
I sure hope this “file photo” doesn’t reflect how the converted Ethiopians look like. Kippah anyone?
I can’t believe comment #2 -Israel imported a racial problem just like in the US??? What does THAT mean-did you mean to say that the Jews were imported and were a racial problem-can’t mean the Blacks; when the Jews came through Ellis Island, Blacks were already here! As for #1 , if you wish to send everyone back to what you think is THEIR country, can Israel contain all tribes the of Jews from all the areas they occupy today? How many Jews are fighting to leave and mve to Israel right now?
Curious….would Mexican Jews be allowed in this school????