Here is one of the latest articles on A7 about this issue:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9562
Emanuel: Not an Ethnic Schism
Tammuz 9, 5770, 21 June 10 02:40
by David Bedein
Who is David Bedein?
And is he really this stupid?
What he is saying has absolutely zero relation to what occurred in the case at hand, and I don't know if he is misrepresenting the current case because he is ignorant of the facts, or he is making an invalid comparison because he is deceptive or can't recognize a non-sequitor and can't separate irrelevant material from relevant material. Either way, this constitutes gross negligence that should not be tolerated by any professional news corporation.
There was a particular Sephardic woman in Emanuel whose daughter was rejected by the school in Emanuel because the standards of religious observance of her daughter and of her family did not meet the requirements of the school.
What woman? When? What year? Who? Which school? What requirements exactly? How did they not fit?
This is cheap journalistic trash.
That Sephardic woman was media savvy.
She contacted the New Israel Fund, the Shas Party and just about every reporter whom she could get a hold of and claimed that she was being discriminated against because she was a Separdic Jew.
Maybe she was. But what does this hypothetical woman have to do with the current situation? Zero, Nada, ZILCH. Whoever this mystery woman is, whatever she did (whenever she supposedly did it) tells us nothing about the current case under examination in the courts and discussed in the media.
The NIF, Shas and the media had a field day, and condemned the school in Emanual for "racist and discriminatory behavior".
Maybe there was racist behavior. Are Shas and NIF always wrong just because they are evil? Or maybe it was political opportunism and dishonest. Who cares? We have no idea what case he refers to or how it's relevant to our case.
The NIF and Shas, strange bedfellows as they are, sued in the Israel High Court of Justice to demand that the Israel High Court of Justice order the school in Emanuel to admit the less observant Separdic girls into their school.
When?
The NIF and Shas were successful in their suit, and the Israel High Court of Justice demanded that any parent who refused to send their children to school under such circumstances be jailed.
Huh? He has morphed his mystery-woman case into today's case.
And, indeed, 61 sets of parents announced that they were ready to go to jail rather than admit the less observant Sephardic girls to the school.
27 of those sets of parents are themselves Sephardic Jews.
Flat out lies.
Does that fact affect the NIF and Shas?
Why should it when NIF and SHas have nothing to do with the current supreme court case.
This guy Bedein should be
FIRED. For news like what he presents here, one could just listen to local housewives gossip.
Now on to the facts.
SHAS has absolutely nothing to do with this. In fact, many Sephardim are angry with Shas for not condemning the racism in Emanuel. In fact, Shas party chairman Eli Yishai spun a statement of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to imply that he condemned his own son to loss of Olam Haba (Is Yishai really that stupid that he expects us to believe what he attributes to Rabbi Ovadia? Simply more manipulation of gedolim) - Loss of Olam Haba for ADVISING Laloum to go to the secular courts.
Laloum by the way is the name of the MAN who raised this complaint in the courts. Mystery woman is unheard of. Laloum is the one with death threats on him by certain deviant thugs within the ashkenazi haredim, and Laloum is the one who heads an organization whose goal is to prevent and counteract cases of discrimination against Sephardim ACCORDING TO HALACHA. His halachic adviser, ie his Rav, is Rabbi Yakov Yosef Shlita - The son of Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef. The particular son btw who opposed his father for his father's support for Oslo Shoah, but let's not get off topic.
Rabbi Yakov Yosef has not only received death threats, he has been physically attacked by so-called chasidim, and his children and grandchildren have been threatened. What a disgusting display. A disgrace. A gargantuan chillul Hashem by these people who think they have the monopoly on the truth and on the Torah and think they can impose it on others by violence. Rabbi Yakov Yosef is not a reform rabbi. And there is no way in hell that his father condemns him to lose Olam Haba.
Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef's statement makes sense in only one situation. In a case where a person chose to forego a beit din and go straight to secular courts. But that is not what happened here. Thus, his statement as cited by the Shas gangsters is not relevant. The chassidim were summoned to a Din Torah and they refused to show up. In such a scenario, the halacha gives a person recourse to utilize the secular authorities. No loss of Olam Haba.
Thus Shas did not lead this case, it actually criticized the case for utilizing secular courts. But even shas admits there was discrimination, just that the secular courts are not the place to solve it. See Jpost article which I can cite for you if you like. Just another evil manipulation and betrayal and distortion of the truth by Shas party criminals.
Now some more facts. Laloum is haredi. The parents in question who approached his organization are haredi. The school is a MACHMIR Beis Yakov. You really think they would have admitted secular students? And they didn't. Because there are other schools in the town where secular students can go. The complaint was raised when AFTER all the admitted students began their school year, all of a sudden the school put up separations between two groups within the classes. They literally put up separation walls. In classrooms, in recess. And take a guess on what lines were defined the separation.
The NIF has nothing to do with this.
David Bedein should be fired. But how can you swallow his lies muman without any critical thinking? We have already discussed many relevant facts in this case that completely go against his science fiction tirade. Now I hope I never have to see Bedein's stupidity and two-bit journalism on this website again.