tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316904890367789805.post4848818992998863576..comments2023-11-05T07:18:30.231+00:00Comments on Hug A Hoodie: Licensed to discriminate: Jewish school wins controversial court caseJonny Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07414994559548890103noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316904890367789805.post-45306889473576833152008-09-17T17:11:00.000+01:002008-09-17T17:11:00.000+01:00It is an extremelly sad and backwards thing anyway...It is an extremelly sad and backwards thing anyway to deny a child who was brought up as Jewish the chance for a Jewish education. Even if one of the parents only is Jewish... It is even more shameful and extremelly sad that a British court has done nothing to prevent this from happening, in an attempt to keep its hands 'clean'. <BR/><BR/>It is the responsibilty of this country to avoid and penalise such obvious and appaling discrimination. One would expect in the 21st century from a school to embrace a child's choice. It is extraordinary that the child's rights and choices are ignored and cruely rejected because of elitistic and discriminatory views rooted in a community who manages to get away with it. In all honesty, as a Jewish person myself, it makes me sick...<BR/><BR/>NurNURhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08101828225795068059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316904890367789805.post-37490504479330048252008-07-15T04:42:00.000+01:002008-07-15T04:42:00.000+01:00Hello - Considering this weeks cover of The New Yo...Hello - Considering this weeks cover of The New Yorker magazine, (Obama as the devout Muslim, despite his professed adherence to, and roots in Christianity), the timing of this court decision is almost ethereal.<BR/>I'm no expert on the subject, but the concept of religious lineage/validation based on matriarchy is not entirely foreign.<BR/>Are we seeing lines being drawn here that cross the boundaries of established western social doctrine? <BR/>As a fellow blogger, I'd suggest keeping your eyes open for another reference to a landmark decision in the media to a racially, ethnically, or religion based legal decision outside the norm. -after all, "Good things always come in threes".<BR/>(Or was that bad things?)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02136673419525563237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316904890367789805.post-65279648179383501552008-07-09T19:52:00.000+01:002008-07-09T19:52:00.000+01:00Simple solution - remove state funding of all scho...Simple solution - remove state funding of all schools...<BR/>(actually not so simple since we need to reform the economic and political systems to remove state granted privilige)<BR/><BR/>Until then, we should seek to allow schools to run themselves, in which case discrimination will occur. However we would also have the ability to set up schools easily (in a home, a synagogue, mosque or church, anywhere really)Tristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15395992764678278326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316904890367789805.post-45780269000911611032008-07-07T15:59:00.000+01:002008-07-07T15:59:00.000+01:00No Jonny. If we're going to permit (fund) faith sc...No Jonny. If we're going to permit (fund) faith schools they must be non descriminatory. If a Hindu wanted to go to JFS, for what ever reason, there should be no impediment. Its a ghettoising system which inculcates and discriminates.James Schneiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00418770297192706019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316904890367789805.post-21557087647722532412008-07-07T09:20:00.000+01:002008-07-07T09:20:00.000+01:00Cheers Ben - Are you sure about that? Check out th...Cheers Ben - <BR/><BR/>Are you sure about that? Check out the link from the Jewish Chronicle; it says that the boy's mother was a Progressive convert:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://thejc.com/articles/20087032945/jfs-admissions-policy-backed-judge" REL="nofollow">Jewish Chronicle article</A><BR/><BR/>Do you have any figures for the membership of the progressive movements in the UK? I had real trouble finding the numbers, but came across a figure of about 40,000 registered members for Reform, and about 10,000 for Liberal - but I'm not all that confident of them, so if you have more accurate figures I'd be happy to update the article.Jonny Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07414994559548890103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316904890367789805.post-63256497375968607812008-07-07T09:05:00.000+01:002008-07-07T09:05:00.000+01:00You're right to highlight this case and I agree wi...You're right to highlight this case and I agree with your analysis although you're wrong on one or two of the facts. The combined progressive movements represent over a third of British affiliated Jewry as against 55% United Synagogues, the rest being Haredi etc. In this case the mum was an Israeli ORTHODOX convert not a reform one and the Chief Rabbi even chose to reject her, although that doesn't make your point any less valid.<BR/><BR/>Fortunately the next Jewish state secondary school to come on stream - JCoSS - to open in Sept 2010, will be cross-communal, recognising as Jewish anyone seen as Jewish by any mainstream Jewish movement - for more check out www.jcoss.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com