Unlike Yaakov Menken, I don't have "sources in Emanuel". I don't know if the (allegedly)offending parents are racist or intolerant, or maybe both, or perhaps neither. But I do know hypocricy when I see it, and I'm seeing it in spades in Cross-Currents.
Yes, of course no American Court would ever sentence parents to jail because they don't like their public school. DUH. But that's because here in America we have a thing called RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, human rights, and seperation of church and state.
They don't have that in Israel.
If someone in Israel wants to get legally married in a secular ceremony they simply can't. NOT ALLOWED. Likewise for other aspects where religion creeps into law.
So Yaakov Menken and Yitzchok Adlerstein, if you want the Israeli court system to act like the US court system, then stop requiring that religious law be the law of the land. Advocate for separation of church and state. Allow Reform and Conservative full rights in Israel. Then you might stop being such hypocrits.
And of course, it goes without saying that an Israel under Chareidi rule would certainly not respect anyone's rights, except for the Chareidim. Ashkenazi Chareidim no doubt.
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