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The Beis Ya’akov in Emmanuel accepts Litvish, Chasidish, Sefard, and Ashkenaz girls. The claims in the zionist media and courts otherwise is a blood libel against the school, the parent body, the teachers, and Gedolei Yisroel shlita.
The Beis Ya’akov in Emmanuel has hashkofic standards, and they do not want their children influenced by people without adhering to those standards. It is standard practice for Yeshivos and Beis Yaakovs in Israel, America, and anywhere to set minimum religious standards. Some schools will not take kids with TV’s in their homes; some won’t take kids unless the family dresses btznuah, etc.
A rusha merusha who wanted to force lower standards upon the Beis Yaakov (and who himself doesn’t even live or have children in Emmanuel!) brought a secular court case against the Beis Yaakov (rather than go to Beis Din as halacha would require in any dispute) and made a blood libel against them that they don’t take Sefardim — an outrageous lie when almost half the student body is Sefardic!
The parents pay taxes to the government including taxes that fund schools across the country, and thus are entitled to have their children’s schools be funded. This fact does not abrogate the schools right to maintain their minimum religious standards – including any “chumros” they maintain. Any parent who doesn’t like such a “chumra”, is free to choose another school that has a different religious standard. (No one can send their child to Satmar, Brisk, Mir, Torah V’Daas, Ateret Torah, or any other Yeshiva or Beis Yaakov in Israel, America or anywhere and then demand such Yeshiva or Beis Yaakov drop any “chumras” or religious standards they insist their student and/or parent body maintain.)
The Gedolei Yisroel shlita, including but not limited to Rav Elyashev, Rav Kanievsky, Rav Shteinman, the Slonimer Rebbe, the Gerrer Rebbe, etc. etc. have not only fully supported the Beis Yaakov and the parents, they insist that the parents must go to jail to be moser nefesh to maintain their Torah standards at the school.
Tommorow expect a massive Kiddush Shem Shmayim as tens of thousands of Torah Jews dressed in their Bigdei Shabbos march along these heroic parents starting from Yerushlayim and Bnei Brak to the zionist prison the reshoyim expect to incarcerate them for two weeks. Throughout our long and painful golus of thousands of years we have been repeatedly willing to go to jail to keep our faith and listen to our Gedolim.