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"It will be the mother of all protests," Knesset Member Menachem Eliezer Moses (United Torah Judaism) declared Wednesday referring to a haredi demonstration in Jerusalem's Yirmiyahu Bridge scheduled for Thursday.
MK Moses spoke in the Knesset plenum during a debate concerning the uproar caused by the High Court of Justice ruling on racial segregation in an all girls' school in Emanuel. The ultra-Orthodox MKs stressed they would not uphold verdicts which contradict their rabbis' rulings.
On Tuesday the High Court ruled that Ashkenazi parents who will fail to adhere to a previous ruling and not send their children to the Beit Yaakov school together with the Sephardic students will be jailed for a period of two weeks for contempt of the court. [...]
"It will be the mother of all protests," Knesset Member Menachem Eliezer Moses (United Torah Judaism) declared Wednesday referring to a haredi demonstration in Jerusalem's Yirmiyahu Bridge scheduled for Thursday.
MK Moses spoke in the Knesset plenum during a debate concerning the uproar caused by the High Court of Justice ruling on racial segregation in an all girls' school in Emanuel. The ultra-Orthodox MKs stressed they would not uphold verdicts which contradict their rabbis' rulings.
On Tuesday the High Court ruled that Ashkenazi parents who will fail to adhere to a previous ruling and not send their children to the Beit Yaakov school together with the Sephardic students will be jailed for a period of two weeks for contempt of the court. [...]
What because separate but equal has worked so well elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteThousands of Jews are going to be protesting tomorrow FOR racism. What a Chilul HaShem!
Gedolei Yisroel across the board from litvish to chasidish have spoken. Rav Elyashev, Shteinman, Kanievsky, Slnimer Rebbe, Gerrer Rebbe, etc.
ReplyDeleteWe must now act on their word.
yeah this is insanity
ReplyDeleteAnd some 20-30 of the parents being jailed are Sefardim. Because "they don't want their children learning with Sefardim". Right?
ReplyDeleteHamekubal, the other day you were quite understanding of (Sephardi) schools being worried about "influences."
ReplyDeleteIf they do not like tne Israeli court interfere in their affirs they shouls setup a private schhol just like the eida haredit but as long as they get money from the government,
ReplyDeleteבעל המאה הוא בעל הדעה , they should shut up.
Maybe they can get Tropper and Kaplan to finance a the private school.
"And some 20-30 of the parents being jailed are Sefardim. Because "they don't want their children learning with Sefardim". Right?"
ReplyDeleteInteresting how barely literate blog commentators manage to reproduce this same statement (of course in multiple formats) all over the internet on every article about this story. Was this the "daas Teyrah" on this issue, to explain to people that some Sephardim are in favor of the segregation? That's not really relevant.
And it's interesting how on one site it was claimed that 17 of them are Sephardi, another one claimed 3 of them, you say 20-30, yet I have not seen any proof.
משה רפאל said...
ReplyDeleteHamekubal, the other day you were quite understanding of (Sephardi) schools being worried about "influences."
Please do not confuse your inaccurate assumptions with my statements. I was talking of getting my children into good schools and how being a part of a good Yeshiva makes that more likely to happen. No one Sephardi actually considers Sephardi Schools to be in the category of good, hence even Rav Ovadia Yosef, saw to it that his own grand-daughters went to Ashkenazi B"Y schools as opposed to his own Shas affiliated Sephardi Schools.
Yes I am understanding of schools being somewhat sensitive to negative influences. However, this is not such a case, as has been repeatedly demonstrated. This is a clear case of ethnic discrimination.