Immanuel Beit Yaakov Controversy - Israel
This blog contains links to articles regarding the Immanuel Beit Yaakov controversy, 2008-2010, which involved allegations of racism against a school in Israel and an overreach of the Israel Supreme Court's powers. These links are important as many have turned into broken links, that is, you cannot find many of the original articles from these links. Thus I used the WayBack machine to get as many as I could. Anyone researching this case will have to search for the original articles that claimed an ethnic split. The Israeli public was faced with the fact that this school was not an ethnic split only when the fathers marched to jail. Then, interestingly enough, many of the original articles that claimed racism just disappeared. In September 2007 two new girls' schools opened in Immanuel, Israel: a Chassidic Beit Yaakov and a Sephardic Shas school called Ohel Rachel. The Sephardic girls' school opened in the same building as the Beit Yaakov high school, the Chassidic girls...