Emmanuel, Israel – The Education Ministry officially announced Wednesday that it plans to approve the opening of an educational institution for girls in the haredi settlement of Emmanuel, which would not be funded by the State and would be used by students of the “Hasidic department”, in response to the Beit Yaakov girls school which refused to let Ashkenazi and Sephardi students study together.
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In a statement to the court, submitted through the State Prosecutor’s Office, the Education Ministry noted that it examined the request filed by the students’ parents to open a new educational institution, “while taking into consideration the parent’s desire to educate their daughters in a Hasidic religious communal educational environment, with a different spiritual leadership, and unique and more strict characteristics than the ones existing in the current school.”
The Education Ministry added that the option of sending the students to an institution of the Hasidism in another city was rejected due to Emmanuel’s distance from other communities and the fact that the transportation entails security and safety risks.The Education Ministry stressed that the approval to open a new educational institution was subject to a number of conditions, the first one being no discrimination.
“Every student, including ‘general studies’ students, who meets the criteria of the newly founded institution will be admitted,” the ministry wrote in its conditions, stating that it would monitor the matter.
Another condition was that the “independent education center” would continue operating the Beit Yaakov School in Emmanuel for students interested in attending, so as not to leave them without an educational institution.
The Education Ministry’s decision was backed by the attorney general.
Finally they admit that the spirituality was at the core, and they had criteria for level of religious observance which had to be met.
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Where do you get that spin. This was pure bigotry against the Sephardim. That was the finding of the court and no amount of twisted logic will change that reality. This is good news, however, since this provides a much-needed option for the girls.
Remember for what type of people the Baal Shem established Chassidus…… so that today they could discriminate and insulate from people far superior to those forebearers?????
One should remember this when Slonim comes shnorring with their solicitous smiles; then is each of our turn to explain that discriminating against Sephardic girls does not deserve our support….. money is the language understood best by these bullies.
“A school was established following a High Court ruling in 2009, which ordered the Education Ministry, the Emmanuel local council and the Independent Education Center to stop operating two separate schools in the same building: one for Sephardim, and one – Ashkenazim and for Sephardim prepared to conduct themselves according to Ashkenazi-Charedi custom”.
Please don’t call people ignorant when you obviously dont know squat about what was going on. if you truly followed it and listened to all the Rabbi’s on both sides you would understand and read between the lines of really what was happening and stop saying there were sephardim in the class.
The Sephardim that were accepted was only because they adopted Ashkenazi customs
If the Sephardic Rabbi’s came out and made a big issue of it, it would have been much worse but for the good of AM Yisrael they tried to fix it without making waves Only when Hacham Yakob Yosef Hashem Yismerehu spoke up did it start to get fixed Still along way to go.