Israel – An ultra-Orthodox activist said Sunday that he would retract his appeal to the High Court of Justice regarding its order for Sephardi and Ashkenazi girls to study together in the settlement of Immanuel.
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Rabbi Yoav Lalum, a member of the Noar Kahalacha (religious youth) nonprofit organization, had petitioned the court against the Education Ministry’s assertion that the Ashkenazi (European origin) parents were embarking on ethnic discrimination by refusing to send their daughters to school with students of Middle Eastern origin.
Lalum announced his intention to retract the appeal in a hearing at a private rabbinical court on Sunday. His spiritual guide, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, said earlier Sunday that Lalum was withdrawing his appeal due to recent threats on his life.
The High Court of Justice on Sunday postponed by two days its ruling on 24 ultra-Orthodox parents from Immanuel who failed to report for their two-week jail sentencing last Thursday on charges of violating the court order. The prosecution told the court it would not object to revoking the mothers’ prison sentences.
Thirty-five men, fathers of the Ashkenazi girls in the segregated school, reported to the Maasiyahu prison in Ramle Thursday evening to serve a two-week sentence. The ruling handed down followed a petition to the High Court from a group of Mizrahi parents who wanted to put an end to the school’s discrimination against their daughters.
But two fathers and 22 mothers who were also sentenced failed to appear at Jerusalem police headquarters as ordered by the court.
The Jerusalem Police stopped their search for the missing parents over the weekend.
Sorry but you missed the entire scoop! Beis din of course told him to drop the case earlier. Lol they didn’t want him to bring it to court. The scoop is that he went to beis din!
We don’t need the jerusalem rabbinical court who goes against our poskim and gedolim to help the chreidim.
What is needed is to have the secular government pay a price.
Having chreidi warfare without any human casualties would be best.
Crippling the enture countrise telephone service or crippling a power plant would serve a greater message.
A cost of a BILLION DOLLARS FOR ANTOGINIZING THE CHREIDIM WOULD SEND A STRONG MESSAGE.
The fact that the beth din ordered the school to intergrate is bigger news than the telling the guy to drop the case, since the Torah forbids to go to secular court.
I wander on what grounds the beth din is telling the school to intergrate. What if all ashkenazi kids leave? Does the beth din want to look like the secular court?
I would advise the beth din to stick to the Torah law and not seek to make no compromises.
Buruch hasheim. This man is a reodeif and should be put into cheireim for his actions. He will forsur have a din vchesbon in front of hashem
“The Jerusalem Rabbinical Court that mediated in the Emmanuel girls’ school case instructed the school to integrate Ashkenazi and Sephardic students next school year.”
In other words, Laloum wins!
We’ll see if the school and the parents obey the beit din.
They will open their own school, who will stop them?
They should open their own school without government support. Let’s see them sweat trying to be so picky when they need every dollar to fill tuition. Its amazing to see how everyone knows the percentage of sfardim in the school. I saw anywhere from 10% to now upwards of almost 40%. I think too many people are fighting over nonsense since many of us are misinformed on the true facts. Like what actuall percentage of the kids are sfardim? What percentage of sfardim are their living in that town? Is this really a frum/chiloni fight or sfardic/ashkenaz fight. What did the rabbonim on both sides actually say?
The newspapers in Israel said that R’ Rakov Yosef gave him a heter Arkaos. Now there are competing Botei Dinim as well. The folks need a Pshara and fast!
The Rabbinical Court did not mediate. It took sides.
People seem to be not understanding, that the PSAK of the bet din is that they must integrate.
If Lalum must listen and remove his case, the school on the other hand must obey and integrate.
There is one part of this whole story that makes no sense to me. I am to the right of what most people call Modern Orthodox. If my daughter were still in school, as much as I like many Chasidim, I would not want to send her to a Chassidic school. Similarly, a young man who wears a beard and peyot , and speaks a Yiddishized English, would feel awkward in a place like YU. Obviously, if the parents want their kids to attend the Beth Ya’akov of Emanuel, they must be pretty close in Hashkafa, to that of the school. Parents who choose to have a t.v. or who don’t want to dress their daughters in a certain fashion, would have no reason to send their daughters to this school. It’s not like Harvard or Oxford, that are unique. It’s simply, for better or for worse, just another Charedi school. Why fight to get in, unless you belong? And, if they do belong, why keep them out?
Can anyone explain what the real situation is?
Now that he dropped the claim, what happens to the parents in jail?
If they are set free, since there is no case. Can they sue for baing jailed without a case.
And how can he drop the case, if the judge gave his verdict already?
Or, are there two cases??
Help please..!
I guess lalum is running scared knowing slonim has a lible suit against him.
Are they going to now force the Eida Hachareidis or the Belzer Bais Din that they must accept sfardishe Rabbonim on their Bais Din or else its discrimination. Yisha from Shas party still has hopes of becoming next Gaavid in Yerushalayim
what a disgrace he was forced to retract because his life was threatened? since when did the Chareidi world start acting like the Italian Mafia? What a shame the Gedolim haven’t spoken out against this type of behavior as they spoke out in support of the parents
what happened to VeAhavta Lereacha Kamocha? Chareidi Society has its priorities backwards. They were Merachek the non religious now they are being merachek frum sephardi people. What a shame. I fear for the consequences of these actions. Hashem was testing us giving us an opportunity for achdus at a crucial time. My brothers and sisters we all failed. Ein Ben Dovid ba ela b’dor shekuloh zakai oi kulah chayav we just accomplished the kuloh chayav part.
who is this young fellow? to whom did he ask a shailah as to whether he was allowed to pursue this case in the first place? look at the pain he has put so many through, I would have understood it if he was a chiloni, but this is an outrage-H’ yeracham
this laloum is no rabbi he is the most hated person in israrl now for Rabbi ovadia yosef ruled that he will not merit to be in the world to come.
How can you give a person who about him the rambam says ein loi chelek leoilom habo… and who caused one of the biggest chilul hashems in world history, the title of RABBI yoav lalum? His name should be followed with vesheim reshoim yirkoiv!
If you don’t like the outcome of the system, you have every right to leave. Or better yet, send your kids to another school which is privately funded. Moshiach will not cause a more of a separation, rather achdus in klal yisrael. You are the ones which want a government funded school and seggrogate yourselves. Why not decide to change the curricullum to whatever you please. Learn all your chasidus in a government run school and the heck with anyone else. Pure self centered. You only seem to care about yourselves. What about those poor girls and parents who you disgraced by turning them away. Yes, when moshiach comes we will see the truth of your haughty attitude. Mark my words, you’ll be the same even after moshiach. If you don’t like his psak or he isn’t frum enough for you, you’ll just continue to protest.
Maybe I’m dumb, and if so please enlighten me, but from reading this article it appears this individual was appealing the Supreme Court’s ruling that the charedi yeshiva was disriminating between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. If so, why do most of the comments here seem to imply this guy is someone opposed to the charedim? He’s obviously on their side — he didn’t like the court’s ruling that the school was discriminating!
Whilst I believe threatening Lalum’s life is just plain wrong, you can hardly blame parents for despising this man whose actions resulted in Jews going to jail. I wonder how well he slept over Shabbos, knowing he caused all this. Glad I’m not related to him, I’d be so ashamed.
We’ve learned one thing from this. Terrorism works. When Haredi thugs threaten to murder a man and his family he will back down out of fear for their lives.
Baruch Hashem! We don’t need goyim to murder us when racists oppress Jews. The Ashkenazi Charedists have Learned enough to do it themselves!
This agreement means nothing if Side A(the Slonimer Chassidim) do not sign onto it. Furthermore, after having read the arbitration agreement (having zoomed in), I was shocked. It says that Yoav Lalum and Rav Yaakov Yosef acted according to Da’as Torah and can’t be categorized as “mosrim” (informers)!!! This is incredible. It bogglest the mind to suggest that the Beis Din knows nothing of the fact the the plaintiffs went to the SECULAR Supreme Court? Even Rav Ovadiah Yosef (the father of Rav Yaakov Yosef) described anyone who does so as a “moser!”. This Beis Din has lost any credibility. Now, after the Immanuel fathers are in jail, Lalum is willing to withdraw all petitions filed with the Supreme Court??What chutzpah! Isn’t it a little bit too late? He should have thought have that before. From what I read, he doesn’t even live in Immanuel! He did this on his own without any parent in Immanuel complaining to him. I think regarding this, we can say (Koheles 1:15)”Meuvas lo yuchal liskon…” -A crooked thing that cannot be made straight.
this story is so bazaar come someone please explain how this got so out of hand in the first place?
I attended a camp in upstate New York with girls that were more modern than myself and girls that were less modern than myself- and you know what? nothing happened to me…I have some very yeshivish friends and some modern friends….I kept to what I was taught and I understand that there are different types out there.. the ones that don’t have tv still don’t….we went to shiurim together….bentched together….davened together….and oh yes- there were sephardim there too who taught me a thing or two about their foods and customs…..whats the problem
This may be the end of the Slonimer Chassidus after all the negative publicity, court fines, etc. It is a real tragedy for Rav Weeinberg of Bnai Brak who let this spin out of control and created such a chillul hasehm
If I was this Yoav Lalum I would skip town. Move to Toronto or Hendon. Some of these Charedi loose cannons are capable of anything, including murder. You hear how they talk about violence and vengeance. It only takes one crackpot!