Slonim grand rabbi: Even a firing squad won't make us compromise on Immanuel school row
Slonim Grand Rabbi Shmuel Berezovsky calls the High Court a heretical, demonic force for its actions in the Immanuel school segregation case.
By Yair Ettinger Tags: Israel newsSlonim Grand Rabbi Shmuel Berezovsky said that his followers would not compromise and would continue their struggle against the High Court, in regards to the ongoing school segregation saga in the Immanuel settlement.
"Even if they put us in front of a firing squad, we would not give up and would not compromise," Berezovsky declared in a letter released to followers and journalists.
Berezovsky heads a midsized Hasidic sect, and in recent months has become a key figure, as Slonim are dominant in Immanuel, where Ashkenazi parents have refused to send their daughters to school with Sephardi students.
"If I thought the justices believe in what they wrote, that the school in Immanuel is based on racial discrimination, I probably would have acted differently," Berezovsky wrote. "But since I have no shadow of a doubt that they know the truth, that their words are lies to the core, this is a struggle between faith and heresy, between sacred power and impure Satanic forces? A struggle that we've always known would break out at the end of days."
At the end of his message, Berezovsky called on the public to "join us in this sublime struggle that generations have waited and looked forward to."
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Slonim Grand Rabbi Shmuel Berezovsky |
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'Immanuel, where Ashkenazi parents have refused to send their daughters to school with Sephardi students" Once again Haaretz leaves out the most important face that 35% of the students in the so called racist Ashkenazi stream in the school are in fact SEPHARDI!!
This is not a case of "Ashkenazi Parents refuse to send their kids to school with Sephardi students" In fact many Sephardi students are in the educational track in dispute - the fact is they refuse to allow students who's family's are not on the same high religious standards in the same track. I am not saying I support this, but it is FAR FROM RACISM depsite what the media wants you to think - I am as Ashkenazi as they come but my kids would also not be allowed in this section of the school - why, because I own a TV! The only REAL question here, is if this is a public school and receives state funding, do they have a right to have admissions criteria whatsoever. If not, then pull the state funding and let them make do - but putting parents in jail becasue the refuse to compormise on the quality of their kids education is something no Western country would do.
Just pay for the school by your own funds and don't leach on the State of Israel.