Thursday, June 17, 2010
Demonstrations
No riotings, thank goodness. But thousands of ultra-orthodox Jews demonstrating throughout the country, including Jerusalem. The whole issue is racism and discrimination (according to the State) and right to educate children within a religious environment (according to the ultra-orthodox Ashkenazi). The latter do not want their children to go to the same school with other religious children. They want segregation in schools between ultra-orthodox Ashkenazi and Shephardi students. http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=178726 and http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/tens-of-thousands-of-ultra-orthodox-rally-in-israel-over-segregated-education-ruling-1.296746