Rabbis from the marginal Hasidic sect Belz have told women in Stamford Hill who drive that they go against “the traditional rules of modesty in our camp”.
In a letter sent to parents last week, seen by the Jewish Chronicle, they say there has been an increase in the number of mothers driving their children to school and add that this has led to “great resentment among parents of pupils of our [Hasidic] institutions”.
The letter says the ban, to come into force in the summer, is based on the recommendations of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, the Belzer spiritual leader in Israel.
It says that if a mother has no other choice but to drive her child to school – for medical reasons, for example – she should “submit a request to the special committee to this effect and the committee shall consider her request”. [...]
what is worrying about this story is not just the extremism and baseless practice , but the reaction it causes in the talkbacks. Jews are now being compared to extremist muslims by the general public, and they are seeing haredism as a threat to British secular values. Until now, these comments were made only in Israel, but as the news spreads, it endangers all Jews of anti-semitism.
ReplyDeleteIs this news. The chassidim have long held this meshugass.
ReplyDeleteBritain also has a strong
ReplyDeleteintact" movement seeking to ban the "horrifying" and "irreversible" practice of male circumcision of non-consenting infants.
What? No school busses? In Brooklyn, the school busses are an extra profit center for the yeshivas (throw in the free busses agudah got them.)
ReplyDeleteThe rebbe is just trying to get extra income for the yeshiva.