Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein advises High Court to refrain from enforcing jail sentences for the 22 ultra-Orthodox women charged with ignoring an order to send their daughters to school with girls of Middle Eastern origin.
By Liel Kyzer and Yair Ettinger Tags: ultra-Orthodox Jewish world Israel newsThe parents of Ashkenazi (European) descent at the all girls' school have refused to let their daughters study with classmates of Middle Easten and North African descent, known as Sephardim.
The Ashkenazi parents insist that they are not racist, but want to keep the classrooms segregated - as they have been for years - on the grounds that the Sephardi families of are not religious enough.
The Supreme Court has rejected that argument and ruled that the 43 sets of parents who defied the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school were to be jailed. The parents were required to either return their daughters to school and refrain from discrimination, or face jail time.
The court has permitted the parents to defer the jail term of one of the parents until the other parent completes their term so that their children will not remain unsupervised. The court has also exempted the mothers of children with special needs and overturned the term of one mother, who signed an agreement to comply with the court's ruling.
More than 100,000 ultra-Orthodox demonstrators thronged the streets of Jerusalem earlier Thursday in support of the Ashkenazi parents' right to keep their children in segregated classes. It was one of the largest ultra-Orthodox demonstrations in recent years.#
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facts are facts, it's not about color of skin. What did emerge is a group of politically motivated black people ( no whites permitted ) have entered school with long standing religious incline and had their kids behave in ways that offended religious community. When the religious community tried to home school children that group of attackers wrote dirt on the parents accusing them of racism. It is a dirty game of Anti - Semites, unfortunately. And even more unfortunately there are judges in Israel who do like these games. This is boring part. The interesting part is Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the chief rabbi of Israel, is Sefardim. And he is up in arms about black people who destroyed Emmanuel community. As some say, there is no evil without good. Let's hope that the actions of evil doers will meet the light of the day and they will be regarded for what they are. Troublemakers exploiting racial stereotypes for political causes. Shalom!
#Quelle http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/state-to-court-don-t-jail-ultra-orthodox-mothers-in-segregated-school-row-1.296977
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