Chassidic parents facing jail time
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Haredi Ashkenazi parents who have refused to send their daughters to school with Sephardi girls have been ordered to jail by Israel’s Supreme Court.
Parents in the Slonim Chassidic sect used to keep their daughters segregated from other girls at the school in the West Bank settlement of Emanuel, going so far as to have separate entrances and a dividing wall through the school’s courtyard.
But after the courts ordered the school to remove the separation, the Chassidic parents kept hundreds of children home from the school. The case has gone through months of court hearings, rulings and mediation, culminating in the court’s ultimatum June 15.
The parents were required to inform the court in writing by June 16 that they would abide by the ruling. — jta
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06/21/2010 at 07:25 PM
I read elsewhere that 61% of Jewish first graders in Israel are ultra orthodox. In a few years, these youngsters will be as intolerant as their parents are now. It sounds like a demographic time bomb will be going off in another generation. This is definitely not good for the Jews.
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