Emmanuel, Israel – The Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday fining Ashkenazi parents in Emmanuel, unless they resume sending their children to the local Beit Ya’acov Girls’ School with Sephardi pupils.
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Starting May 25, each parent will be fined NIS 200 per day that their children do not attend the school.
Three years ago the Beit Ya’acov school divided the students into two tracks, a “hassidic” track whose students were banned from contact with secular relatives or friends, and a regular track for other students. Because many of the Sephardi girls came from families with traditional or secular members, this created de facto Ashkenazi and Sephardi tracks.
After the Supreme Court ruled against the arrangement, the Asheknazi parents pulled out their children from the school and established a “pirate” school and have been preventing their children from attending the established school since.
The Supreme Court also ruled that the school must merge its two courses of study, in order to prevent the possibility of ethnic separation.
The Supreme Court announced its decision after talks the school failed to reach an agreement with an anti discriminatory foundation over predetermined acceptance conditions for each course of study. The court also instructed to fine the school NIS 10,000 (about $2,650) for each day it violates the ruling.
what right do the zionist scum have to force the parents to send the kids to any particular school?!
in school you can’t discriminate but why can’t they start a new school?
It is so sad the Secular Supreme Court has to enforce V’Ahavta L’Reiacha Komocha. It is especially terrible to see the hypocrisy of all these religious people who mourned the death or R’ Akiva’s students throughout the Sefira for exactly this reason.
What righr does the court have to force parents to send to a particular school? Watch this, eventualy they will force them to go to secular school! I thought Israel claims to be a Democracy!
Baruch Hashem!
Hopefully Israel can eradicate the blight upon mankind that is racism. I’m sure that the proponents of segregation have all sorts of excuses and proofs for it, but they’re baseless and completely untrue. These myopic xenophobes are afraid of anything different than their eastern european version of Judaism.
I keep hearing asheknazi charedim talk about a “yiddishe taam” in food, music or other cultural memes, but this “yiddishe taam” about which they speak is really nothing more than a recent adaptation of german, polish or slavic customs.
The lifestyle of Jews of the ancient world would look absolutely nothing like that of the ashkenazim, whether in tefilla, learning, cuisine, music etc. It would probably be more like that of the Sefardim and Yemenite Jews.
Maybe we should be learning from them!
once you get funding by the state the state has a say
Where are all the chareidi bashers?The truth is finnaly coming out,there ws intent of racial profiling,only the school’s frum standards.P.S.there are sephardim in the askenazi school,those who accept the school’s rules.
Liberalism is a disease that slowly evolves into fascism if left untreated.
Iam sure Rav Ovadia Josef is also very sad about this he can see that his chinuch atzmai is failing and a lot of sfardishe girls want either become more litvish or chassidish.
It actually quotes the famous American case Brown v. Board of Education…..
ok number 18 so tell us what acutally happened.
Please, this is an old story, my sister in law married Ashkenaz and lived in Betar Illit when her freind who was Yeminite wanted to move in the same building she was told that “We dont want too many Sphardic people in this building”….there were 3 “Sphardic” mishpachas living amongs many. Its a shame that a secular institution “The State” has to teach “chareidim” what the right thing to do is.
It is a sad but obvious reality that the Ashkenazi group in engaging in pure discrimination. No amount of denial or excuse will obsecure the attempt at an improper segeration of ethnic groups (based on the feeling of Ashkenazi superiority). The Ashkinazi parents, to insure “frumkite”, should worry about the home environment that they provide and the message that they are sending to their childern about respecting and loving fellow Jews. As a former 1950’s Torah Vodaath student (#13 is correct about Torah Vodaath) the mix of differing elements of the broad frum community was helpful in building “frumkite”, acceptance, respect and tolerance for all Jews. Those who seek to harm us today (or sought to harm us in the past) have not discriminated among us by our levels of “frumkite” or our ethnic background — why should we as “frum” Jews do so to our own people. (Also, what a “shanda” this is for the secular Jews). Let us wake-up to reality and be kind to one-another.
Due to living conditions in Europe for the past 1000+ years, Ashkenazi Jews are, in general, terrified of the world around them. They have been persecuted so long that there is a deep-rooted fear of ANYTHING that might lead them from their chosen version of Torah. They have become extremely insular, even to the point of fearing other Jews.
On the flip-side, the Arab world was, relatively speaking, extremely tolerant of Jews. The extreme, violent form of Islam one sees today is relatively modern. Non-European Jews never gained this fear of outsiders, and thus are more tolerant of those around them.
Ashkenazim see tolerance as a weakness, a character flaw. They have perverted Torah to match their beliefs.
Reply to #30
Are you scared of avoda? Someone who has a desire to steal and doesn’t steal because he’s being watched or feels bad to, is still a thief (if he’s ever stolen). Until a person reaches a level where he doesn’t want to steal because it’s not his, he has done no avoda, and all he is a standby thief, waiting for a time when he’s not being watched or he feels it’s properly worth his while to steal.
Similarly, if you have a desire to waste your time with the utter rubbish on TV then you’re still a shmerel. Wanting to watch and not having one is simply a way of avoiding the avoda at hand.
It says “teach your child to swim” not keep him away from the water, when people stop trying to control the way everything happens and leave that to HaKadosh Baruch Hu and then focus on the avoda that they should be doing, maybe then we’ll start getting close to the geula.
Attorney Mordechai Bass’ evaluation of the Beis Yaakov Emanuel case:
A brief synopsis
“On January 28 2008 I was invited to evaluate the complaints of ethnic discrimination made against the Beis Yaakov Emanuel administration. I have thoroughly reviewed relevant material … and have met with administrators from the ministry of education, the chinuch atzmai (independent religious schools’ network, which Beis Yaakov is under), and I visited the two schools in question.”
“The percentage of Ashkenazi families in the original school is 23%, and in the new (Chasidi) school, 73%.”
(Footnote at bottom: “Such figures are not totally accurate – firstly, the schools do not note the ethnicity of their students in the registration – and this is a good thing! Secondly – this figure was…partially based on the tenor of the family name, which can also be inaccurate.” )
“All parents wanting to sign up their daughters to the new school, and were ready to accept upon themselves the school’s conditions, were accepted (lit. “not refused”). Since there was no rejection (of any applicants), where is the discrimination?”
Physical separation between the two schools – fact or fiction?
“…photographers claimed that the cloth that was placed on the (pre-existing) fence prevented the girls from seeing each other. This is not true. Only part of the fence was covered. The yard surrounds the school from four directions, and the girls (from both schools) are able to see and play with each other. The (media) portrayal of two completely separate sections of the school yard…is not true.”
“Were the students in the two schools divided according to ethnicity?
The original school has 107 Sephardic girls and 32 Ashkenazim. The percentage of Ashkenazim is thus 23%. The new (Chasidi) school has 58 Ashkenazi girls and 21 Sephardim. The percentage of Sephardim is thus 27%….I repeat that…anyone interested in registering their daughters in the new school and ready to accept the school’s way of life was not refused.
“I spoke to the plaintiffs and asked for one instance of parents who asked to register their daughter and was refused and they had no such case.
“The division was not ethnic, it was religious. I am convinced that there is no ethnic discrimination.”
“When ethnic discrimination actually occurs, we must combat it with all our might. I express my sorrow about complaints like these – thrown in the air – that increase hatred among Israel, and are totally baseless.”
Synopsis of letter from Rachel Guveri, head of education, town council of Emanuel, to Emanuel’s mayor Ezra Gerashi
December 2009
As my duty as head of education, I check on the schools and kindergartens. I have visited the Beis Yaakov School five times this year.
Concerning allegations of discrimination that have arisen:
5. There is no separation wall in the school.
6. There is one uniform dress code for the whole school.
7. There are no separate recesses.
8. The yard is shared; the girls (from both schools) play together.
The students are happy with the situation.
7. Registration – each family was given a choice at the beginning of the year which school to choose from – Chasidi or general.
8. Prayer – each girl prays according to her home custom. In the first grade they receive a prayer book from the Sephard tradition.
9. Girls learn the gamut of Jewish law, both Sephardi and Ashkenazi traditions, as a seamless whole.
10. Both schools learn the same curriculum.
11. The rules for both are the same.
12. There are teachers who teach in both schools.
I see that the girls are happy in these schools. (Additionally) the new Mayan-Shas (Beit Rachel and Leah) school has a nice atmosphere and the girls are happy.
There are schools in Emanuel for all to choose from for their individual needs.
The directive to unite the two Beis Yaakovs has opposition from parents in both schools.
I recommend allowing (the Beis Yaakovs) to remain two separate tracts – Chasidi and general, this is the first preference.
Rachel Guveri