Emanuel Testimony Reveals Hatred & Racism
Some of the affidavits presented to the High Court of Justice by Sephardi students in the Beis Yaakov of Emanuel case on Sunday depict blatant racism, discrimination due to the fact the girls are of Sephardic descent.
According to Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) host Razi Barkai and other media sources, the documents presented to the nation’s highest court detail name-calling, discrimination both inside and out of the school, and statements from Sephardic parents lamenting the simple fact that ...
Chinuch Atzmai's Rav Lazerson Laments the Enemy from Within
Chinuch Atzmai’s Rav Avraham Yosef Lazerson spoke of the recent assault against the chareidi community and chareidi chinuch in particular over recent days. He added that what is particularly painful are those “in our camp who provide opponents with the ammunition” to launch such attacks.
Lazerson explained the Emanuel Beis Yaakov is not an isolated case, but one that address the Beis Yaakov charter, the essence of the educational network. Therefore he explains, there is no room for ...
Negotiations in Emanuel Beis Yaakov Case Break Down
Negotiations involving representatives of Chinuch Atzmai, the Emanuel Beis Yaakov and members of the Sephardic community broke down on Monday, Kikar Shabbat reports. Talks were held on Monday in compliance with the ruling from Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, who instructed the sides to work out their difference and HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Yosef Shlita would be called upon to arbitrate outstanding issues.
In Monday’s talks, Chinuch Atzmai officials were present, along with Yoav Lalum and ...
Tel Aviv Mayor Huldai Declares War on Chareidi Chinuch
After chareidi chinuch had a day in court last week in the Emanuel Beis Yaakov case, the subject of chareidi education is once again in the news in Eretz Yisrael, this time targeted in a hateful attack from none other than Ron Huldai, the mayor of Tel Aviv.
The mayor stated that the chareidi chinuch places the future of Israeli society in jeopardy, calling for a “rebellion” from the secular silent majority since they are compelled to act towards preserving democracy in Israel. Huldai ...
Deputy Minister Porush Meets With Justice Barak To Discuss Emanuel Discrimination
Deputy Minister of Education (Yahadut HaTorah) R’ Meir Porush met with former President of the High Court of Justice Prof. Aaron Barak to discuss the Emanuel Beis Yaakov case. According to a Kikar Shabbat report, during recent days, Porush also met with Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin.
These meetings came in addition with the deputy minister’s meeting with High Court of Justice President Dorit Beinish, all towards lowering the antagonism surrounding the case. Both Barak and Rivlin ...
Chareidi Councilman Pindrus Comes Under Fire for Disparaging Remark
As the Emanuel Beis Yaakov case takes a prominent place in Thursday’s news in Israel, with the sides and parents appearing before the Supreme Court, Jerusalem Councilman Yitzchak Pindrus grabbed his own news headline, reportedly releasing a statement “In chareidi education, we don’t accept Sephardim, monkeys, Russians and Ethiopians”.
One could not find a less opportune time to reportedly release such a remark, let alone from a chareidi Jerusalem deputy mayor, as the chareidi system ...
R' Yaakov Yosef to Arbitrate Emanuel Beis Yaakov Case
2:04PM IL: In an unexpected move, the High Court of Justice on Thursday ruled in the Emanuel Beis Yaakov case that HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Yosef Shlita will serve as arbitrator between the sides towards reaching an amicable solution regarding the discrimination against Sephardim in the school. The Ministry of Education objects to such a move, realizing it will remove the matter from the ministry’s jurisdiction.
R’ Yoav Lalum, who is spearheading the case against the school, and the subject ...
Agudas Yisrael in London Sends a Strong Letter to Israeli Diplomatic Officials
Agudas Yisrael worldwide is working in earnest against the harsh decree, a NIS 5,000 daily fine against Chinuch Atzmai surrounding the ongoing controversy over segregation in a Beis Yaakov school in the Shomron community of Emanuel.
Agudah officials reject the High Court of Justice’s attempt to interfere with parental education decision, referring to Israeli authorities’ plans to file criminal charges against Emanuel parents who refuse to send their daughters to the school in question. ...
NIS 5,000 Daily Chinuch Atzmai Fine Begins Today
The NIS 5,000 daily fine imposed on Chinuch Atzmai by the High Court of Justice in the Emanuel Beis Yaakov segregation case begins today, Sunday, April 18, 2010.
After the court handed down the decision, Chinuch Atzmai officials in Eretz Yisrael consulted with legal experts and Gedolei Torah Shlita, as well as enlisting Gedolei Torah Shlita in the United States, well-aware of the ramifications of the harsh court decision, decrying the secular court’s brazen involvement in chareidi ...
New Israel Fund Linked to Emanuel Beis Yaakov Dispute?
Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Bar-Lev, the rav of Emanuel, spoke with the weekly BaKehilla newspaper regarding the ongoing conflict surrounding the city’s Beis Yaakov and alleged discrimination, and the recent Supreme Court ruling levying a NIS 5,000 daily fine on Chinuch Atzmai.
BaKehilla: In recent months, the media has expressed a growing interest in the unprecedented concern and involvement of the system regarding the Beis Yaakov School from a legal perspective. How do we view the events from a ...
Agudas Yisrael Rabbonim Convene in USA to Discuss Chinuch Atzmai
Members of Agudas Yisrael’s Rabbinical Council (Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah) in the United States convened in an urgent meeting in the home of the Novominsker Rebbe Shlita. Taking part in the meeting were Rabbi Chaim Levine Shlita (Telz Chicago), Rabbi Aaron Schechter Shlita (Chaim Berlin), Rabbi Dovid Feinstein Shlita (Mesivta Tifferes Yerushalayim), Rabbi Yosef Harari Raful Shlita (Ateret HaTorah, NY), Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky Shlita (Philadelphia), Rabbi Malkiel Kotler Shlita (Lakewood) and ...
Gedolim Shlita Decry High Court Involvement in Chareidi Chinuch
Gedolei Yisrael Shlita are expressing their strong disapproval over the High Court of Justice’s interference in matters pertaining to chareidi education, specifically referring to the case of the Beis Yaakov in Emanuel and the dress code adopted by chareidi mosdos.
According to the daily HaMevaser, a court decision includes reference to the “stringent dress code adopted by schools in the chareidi system, based on the beis din of R’ Wosner, who represents a particularly stringent ...
Deputy Minister Porush Working to Find Solution for Emanuel School
Deputy Minister of Education R’ Meir Porush has been meeting with attorneys and rabbonim as he continues efforts to find a solution to this week’s High Court of Justice ruling, fining Chinuch Atzmai 5,000 NIS a day for each day the Beis Yaakov in Emanuel remains segregated between ashkenazim and sephardim.
Porush met with Maran Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita and the Slonim Rebbe Shlita, presenting them with the facts given over to him by legal experts, as well as seeking the guidance ...
Emanuel School Fined NIS 5,000 Daily For Discrimination
The High Court of Justice on Wednesday slammed the ongoing discrimination in the Emanuel Beis Yaakov, leveling a NIS 5,000 a day fine on Chinuch Atzmai for as long as the discrimination continues.
The three-justice panel was visibly angry over the contempt of court, the fact that the school remains segregated today between ashkenazim and sephardim, pointing the finger of blame at Chinuch Atzmai, announcing the unprecedented daily fine.
Chinuch Atzmai’s Rav Avraham Lazerson explains that ...
Bais Yaakov School Ordered Closed After Discrimination Tensions
The Ministry of Education on Sunday ordered the closure of a Beis Yaakov School operating in the Shomron chareidi community of Emanuel. Municipal officials were ordered to see to the immediate closure of the school, which is plagued with racial tensions surrounding ashkenazi and sephardi schools, or perhaps more accurately, the parents, as was reported by YWN-Israel (http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=47404).
The school was never approved and it operates under unacceptable ...
State Threatens Ashkenazi Parents with Criminal Charges
Emanuel, Israel - The state is warning the parents of 74 ashkenazi girls, students in a Beis Yaakov in the Shomron community of Emanuel, that if they do not return their girls to the school they will face criminal charges, trials and possibly a jail time.
The sad incident surrounds the battle in the community’s Beis Yaakov School between ashkenazim and sephardim. A High Court ruling has opened the school’s doors to sephardi girls, prompting the parents of 74 students to take their girls ...
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