Questions About Immanuel

A Guest Post By E. Fink

This picture is on the top of Vosizneias. I assume it depicts a child from the Immanuel School whose parents were taken to jail for defying a court order. The child is obviously crying.

My heart goes out to her.

I don't have a full understanding of the entire Immanuel saga. I do have a lot of questions. This post is merely to open the forum of discussion about this incident.

Off the top of my (nearly exploding) head:

• Did the court overreach in its decision?
• Is racism the cause for not allowing Sephardi girls into the primarily Charedi school?
• Is religious indignation the cause for not allowing Sephardi girls into the primarily Charedi school?
• Are those the same thing?
• Why don't the Charedim pull out of the public school and make a private school that suits their needs?
• Would the court have a problem with that too?
• Is there a more civilized way to deal with this problem? (Not protesting, not taking parents away from their children...)

And most of all:

• When the parents go to jail for 2 weeks, who watches their precious children for whom they are making this stand?
• Is it conceivable that having both parents in jail is better for the children?

More pictures: (all photos courtesy of VIN or whoever they snatched them from)

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