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Elad, Israel - Following several days of uncertainty, a child that was initially denied entrance to an Orthodox school was finally allowed to attend, as the result of a court order.
Tel Aviv's administrative court ordered the Beit Yaakov School in the central city of Elad to admit the child to the first grade. The child's parents asked for the court's intervention after their child was denied entry, apparently due to the family's "oriental descent."
During the court hearing, Judge Kobi Vardi said that "without delving into the question of discrimination that floats above the refusal to admit the child, the refusal itself is peculiar, to say the least."
The judge added that the reasons given by the school for the denied admittance failed to supply a decent argument, and recommended that the school should consider taking in other students who have been denied admittance, for the sake of not having future deliberations.
Besides the child in question, there are four other girls who were denied admittance by the same school.
Attorneys Shneor Tzoref and Ronen Milrad, representing the parents, said that "this is a historic and precedent decision obligating a school belonging to the haredi Ashkenazi stream to admit the child immediately.
"This girl was denied admittance as the result of a racial policy led by the leader of the Independent Education Center and the Beit Yaakov School."
The appeal to the court was filled after the Beit Yaakov School denied the admittance of a 6-year-old girl, stating that the decision stems from her being "a Mizrahi." Four other girls who were not accepted by the school have remained home without a scholastic framework.
The five girls appealed to the Education Ministry, and although the ministry ruled in their favor, the school itself has yet to supply an approval letter, admitting the girls to the school.
The law office represents the Independent Education Center has yet to respond to the court ruling.
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Sep 10, 2008 at 09:20 AM medicineman Says:
It's about time!!!
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Sep 10, 2008 at 09:52 AM Lock & Load Says:
Listen if BYBP takes in all the Bucharian and Russians....
Then in Israel they can take in the Mizrachi and Sphardi`s
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Sep 10, 2008 at 09:51 AM sick of it Says:
This makes me not want to be frum anymore.
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Sep 10, 2008 at 09:32 AM Joseph Says:
It's too bad these girls have to lower themselves to go to such a despicable school. There must not be many in the area.
Another thing: I don't know what the judge meant by the "question" of discrimination. It seems pretty clear that's what it was when they said they weren't taking her because of her "oriental descent".
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Sep 10, 2008 at 10:33 AM for ctin out loud Says:
Lock, as if that is a Bad thing???
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Sep 10, 2008 at 10:43 AM Avraham Abba Says:
Forget the court order!
Every parent has an obligation to take their chidren out of a school that teaches anti-achdus and prejudiced teachings.
The people of Eldad should unite and tyake their kids out of that school. Now that would be achdus.
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Sep 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM Joseph Says:
Avraham Abba,
What you're proposing to do, while praiseworthy, is naive at best.
The whole EY is of the same mindset, not just Elad. They're being famous not for their view, which is shared all over EY, but because they got sued. Americans who've never lived in EY don't realize this fact.
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Sep 10, 2008 at 11:01 AM Joseph Says:
Sick of it,
We have to learn from Avrohom Avinu, who did what was right despite the whole world disagreeing with him.
So too, even though the "frum" world doesn't follow the Torah, we have to also laugh in their face and do the right thing.
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Sep 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM frummy Says:
shas should set up a school here
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Sep 10, 2008 at 02:36 PM gabby Says:
I just want to say that if the Avos lived today they would disown all jews that discrimnate and call names......
The reason hashem chose them opposes school polocies......
I will bring this issue up with Gedolim ! Disgusting.....
Its people like this who would prevent rabbi akiva become who he became ..........
Or The Netziv aswell....
Just remember Trtsky and The chafetz haiim .......
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Sep 10, 2008 at 03:17 PM AMG Says:
Shame on you I hope the almighty should punish you for your sin you are worse than the mapam people who forced the yeminites to give up their religious life style
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Sep 10, 2008 at 03:53 PM Fluffy Dan Says:
frummy, there are sfaradi schools, but the sfaradim themselves don't want to go there.
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Sep 10, 2008 at 06:44 PM Moroccan Says:
I was the "token" scholarship Sephardic girl in Ashkenazic school. I would never do the same to my children. I was tormented not only by the other girls, but mostly by the so called "frum" teachers.
My parents did not believe what I told them and only blamed me because no "frum" ladies would do the things that I described.
In the end, I am religious again and my parents now understand as my nieces and nephews are going through the same. But it nearly destroyed our family.
I would only put my children in a Sephardic schools. Racism among Jews is very real and it is quite disgusting.
But as we are told, one should not judge the Jewish religion by the Jewish people.
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Sep 10, 2008 at 07:51 PM Anonymous Says:
i dont get why they wouldnt have been allowed to go to begin with?
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Sep 11, 2008 at 01:24 AM Fortune Says:
just because they have beards, Sheitlels and dress in Tzniut clothes, does not make them have clean Neshamas.
Time to take off your PRIM COSTUMES and accept ALL JEWS...As my eldest son was teased by his ASHKENAZI BRETHEREN in elementary school many years ago because his skin was TANNER than the others. I assured him one thing...Go back to school tomorrow and tell your ASHKENAZI friends that MOSHE RABENU was also TANNED in skin color.
Those boys never said another anti- Sephardi slander remark again..
OH MY.....Does that mean MOSHE RABENU might have also been a SEPHARDI!!!!!!!!!