The Ministry of Education Chareidi Unit announced last week it was getting tough with schools that discriminate, announcing it would be holding back school funding for four schools, as reported by YWN-ISRAEL.
As a result of “state involvement in chareidi education” an urgent gathering has been announced for principals of Beis Yaakov high schools, being held on Sunday night 15 Elul. The Union of Seminaries (frum girls’ high schools) is arranging the urgent assembly, reportedly at the behest of HaGaon HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita.
The event is set for Sunday night at 6:15PM in the Ganei HaZayit Hall on Yitzchak Nissim Street to discuss how to respond to the state’s involvement regarding who is and is not accepted to schools.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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If they are discriminating on the basis of yichus or eidah or nusach, they are operating contrary to daas Torah. If they are discriminating on the basis of level of yiddishkeit and observance, then the government is acting to make them less frum (which is the overall policy of the medinah).
According to reports I’ve seen, at least one of the schools is being punished solely because it discriminated on the basis of religious level. The media accuses the school of rejecting Sefardi girls but the school is 90% Sefardi and the Sefardi parents don’t want girls with a weaker religious level.