MKs from Yahadut HaTorah early Wednesday afternoon met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to discuss the crisis surrounding the Emanuel Beis Yaakov.
The chareidi legislators told the prime minister they were quite disappointed over his silence during the entire affair, which YWN-ISRAEL reported earlier came to an end when the prime minister smelled a coalition crisis brewing, not because Mr. Netanyahu is too concerned with the fact that Emanuel parents are jailed.
The prime minister called on the MKs to use restraint, stressing the need to adhere to the nation’s highest court.
MK Menachem Eliezer Moses told the media following the meeting that the recent actions of the High Court are unprecedented in the history of the state, and “We cannot support those who don’t support us”. He equated the court’s imprisonment of mothers to a Bolshevik regime.
Deputy Minister Meir Porush explained a solution must be found for the children, and the current realities are doing anything but resolving the conflict. Porush in his statements to the press following the meeting called the situation anarchy, warning a solution must be forthcoming.
In a related matter, children arrived at Massiyahu Prison today in four buses, permitted to visit with their fathers and other relatives. Only a small representation of the arrivals was actually permitted inside at a time in line with prison regulations.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Let them walk out of coalition NOW for the next four weeks until the last parent is freed…..
A solution must be found! Get both sides to a Bais Din. Have them discuss the issue of educating all of the children. חסידים, ספרדים, חוזרי בתשובה and פשוטי אידין. Then when you have a solution in hand that will ensure that all those who want to learn are treated like people, then we can talk about it with the state. Why should Netanyahu get involved? After all Yahdut Hatorah says the secular state has no role here. You have a problem solve it. Then the state won’t get involved. At the rate they are going, Yahdut Hatorah will find themselves in opposition. Then they will really be able to pat themselves on the back and say job well done! Such a קידוש השם! The סאטמאר חסידים will say I told you so, and the poor little guy will be on the receiving end of all of this. It’s a גמרא: במקום שבעלי תשובה עומדים אין צדיקים גמורים יכולים לעמוד – the slonim rebbe says pshat because we will put up a wall to keep them out.
#2 to “Chiefrabbi”
It seems like u can’t read plain English! The school DID NOT discriminate based on (Race or ethnicity) Sephardim, Litvaks, Chasidim or Balei Tshuva, they based it solely on yiddisher standards, backed up by all the gedolim. Should we have it any other way? Chas V’Sholom!!!
With Chief Rabbis like you who needs עם הארצים!!!!
The points made by the person who calls himself chiefrabbi seem excellent. Also, it is hard to understand why, under the present system, every Sefardi Jew should automatically be stigmatized as insufficiently observant (without anyone even bothering to check) while every Ashkenazi should be automatically labelled as properly observant and acceptable. But the best solution is for the religious community to act to resolve the problem through batei din without government interference.
y2r, I do not know for sure what were those standards at Emmanuel, so I am not going to speaking about that town. But what is for sure, that in many places in Erets Israel, they posul people in the same way that Yosef posuled his brothers (other Shivtei K’) — namely, unjustly.
It is high time, the EretsIsroeldike do t’shuva on their aveiros of bein odom le’haveiro.
Let see, as I pointed out in a previous post…
The Knesset never passed a law on discrimination.
The limits of discrimination were never defined.
Does it include race, nationality, religion and sexual preference?
Does religious discrimination apply to religious institutions?
In Israel –
the Supreme Court is making its own new laws.
The Supreme Court is enforcing its own laws.
The is no appeal to the Supreme Court’s laws.
Justice Levy publicly said the Israel Supreme Court answers to no one, to no authority, to no political or religious body.
What is that called?
Facism, Dictatorship, Totalitarianism?
Wikipedia:
Totalitarianism (or totalitarian rule) is a political system where the state, usually under the control of a single political person, faction, or class, recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.
One can not go to an Israeli secular court — it does not judge according to the Torah. But, student613 and others, let’s stop making ridicuoulos accusations agaist the Israeli justice system.
Whats ridiculous? in England they ruled that a Jewish school cannot restrict require its students to be born Jewish or converted. In the United States it has been ruled that a openly homosexual teacher cannot be fired from a catholic school.
Israel is in a worse position because it does not have constitution.
From 1992 on much of Aharon Barak judicial work was focused on advancing and shaping Israel’s Constitutional Revolution (a phrase which he coined). Barak’s approach, which was adopted by the Supreme Court, thereby granted the courts (not just the Supreme Court) the ability to strike down legislation which is inconsistent with the rights embodied in the Basic Laws.
During his time as President of the court Barak advanced a judicial activist approach, whereby the court was not required to limit itself to judicial interpretation, but rather was permitted to ‘fill the gaps’ in the law through ‘judicial legislation’ at common law. This approach was highly controversial and was met with much opposition, including by some politicians.
The Israeli legal commentator Ze’ev Segal wrote in a 2004 article: “Barak sees the Supreme Court as a [force for societal change], far beyond the primary role as a decisor in disputes. The Supreme Court under his leadership is fulfilling a central role in the shaping of Israeli law, not much less than [the role of] the Knesset.
This “revolution” is being forced on the majority population by a minority of secularists.
The Israel Supreme Court has ruled that the Rabbinut must give kosher certification to missionaries who opened up a restaurant.
They could rule that the Rabbinut must provide marriage certificates to same gender marriages.
It’s not Stalin, but it is Judicial activism with a strong secular and anti-religious agenda. The publicly stated objective by the Supreme Court is to firmly base the Israeli legal system on “normative”, common (i.e. secular) law.
So there was no racism, descrimination, etc. great! Which Bais Din paskened this. I am sure that the גדולים believe in going to to דין תורה not to ערכאות. Since this is the case, נו let’s get on with it. Then, we can see the פסק דין and know how to proceed. The takeaway from the demonstration is that people have a right to choose the education of their children without government intervention. I do not believe that all of the Gedolim support the actions that led up to the court case. This is something that needs to be decided at a דין תורה. To refuse to go to דין תורה is a great עבירה. I still can’t get how anyone can defend putting a wall down the middle of an existing school. What does ואהבת לרעך כמוך teach us? Just ברור לו מיתה יפה