The letters stand for "Har Nof university", or, " University of Har Nof".
You must think I am crazy... or maybe it is the City of Jerusalem that is crazy...
The City of Jerusalem approved a plan to build a "kiryat chinuch" - educational campus - for a university, at the entrance to Har Nof, on a plot of 35,000 square meters.
Haredi members of the Jerusalem City Council are trying to get the plan canceled or changed to minimize the damage, but so far the plan is moving ahead.
The Haredi councilmen are opposed from two directions:
1. putting an academy in a Haredi neighborhood. "while our children are learning Torah, they cannot put an institution that teaches all sorts of other topics that might entice our children to go out to a bad culture. I have no problem with them learning mathematics, but all the other things are no good and superfluous from our perspective", said one.
2. the size of the campus and the building is too much for the neighborhood and will put a strain on the infrastructure. There is already a shortage of available parking, the neighborhood has only one entrance, etc. This councilman even says if they make the campus smaller, to just 20,000 square meters, he would remove his objection.
Strange that the size is more important than the objection to the academy itself and its content.
At this point it is unclear what academy will use the campus. At a later stage it will be put to a tender for that decision..
source: Mynet
Get used to it. HNU. Maybe they will have a football team and a basketball team. Join March Madness. What would be a good name for their sports teams?
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And we need another University in Jerusalem because it fills what unserved niche? I do admit that I am interested in seeing whether the same academics who blew a gasket over Ariel U start frothing at the mouth over HNU or the same objections will disappear because sticking it to the Haredim will be so gratifying for them.
ReplyDelete"What would be a good name for their sports teams?"
ReplyDeleteHilltoppers, like Western Kentucky U.
Hello?! It's being put next to Har Nof on purpose
ReplyDeleteJust more of the same attempts to keep our children indoctrinate in the "culture" of Western, progressive, democracy, and distanced from Torah.