tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post8260792034640309186..comments2024-03-29T11:40:46.477+03:00Comments on Life in Israel: the pot calls the kettle blackRafi G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-47300714945378968672007-09-04T15:28:00.000+03:002007-09-04T15:28:00.000+03:00ben, you missed rafi's point. she would discrimin...ben, you missed rafi's point. she would discriminate too against someone else who didn't look as ashkenazic as her son. that's the flaw against the mom here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-35548720449235074422007-09-04T00:35:00.000+03:002007-09-04T00:35:00.000+03:00Its not just the schools. villages (kiryat?) also ...Its not just the schools. villages (kiryat?) also take in a quota of Sephardim at a time.<BR/><BR/>Its too weird. I'd like to understand it but I don't think there is anythin g to understand. (sigh)Miriamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06067406973014144499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-73832167440063009682007-09-03T20:18:00.000+03:002007-09-03T20:18:00.000+03:00It happens all over Jerusalem. Were I Queen of Isr...It happens all over Jerusalem. Were I Queen of Israel for a day, all schools would have "blind" applications and you would be accepted on merit, not by name or ancestry....aliyah06https://www.blogger.com/profile/12570980519532246704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-50556168662117401492007-09-03T17:47:00.000+03:002007-09-03T17:47:00.000+03:00I am absolutely speechless. I agree completely wit...I am absolutely speechless. <BR/><BR/>I agree completely with rebel. I would not want my child going to school with attitudes like this.We're the ones who have to put up with themhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053331977465408238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-78619057461407859382007-09-03T08:56:00.000+03:002007-09-03T08:56:00.000+03:00Ben - I understand your point and to a certain ext...Ben - I understand your point and to a certain extent I think you are correct. Parents just want to get their kids into a good school (based on whatever criteria they use - education level, proximity, friends, educators etc.) and the other issues - they don't care about them as long as they are not affected.<BR/><BR/>But aside from that, such discrimination goes on because the society condones, and even supports, it. The schools get away with it, to a certain extent at least, because that is what the parents want.Rafi G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00699851287106903971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-14116736055916240412007-09-03T06:59:00.000+03:002007-09-03T06:59:00.000+03:00Ben,I disagree. THe parents perpetuate the system,...Ben,I disagree. THe parents perpetuate the system, by wanting their kids to attend schools who accept students according to ethnicity. What often happens is that the older children in a family attend a particular school, and when a younger child is not accepted because of, say, ADHD, the parents are all upset. But they were fine about other children with behavior problems being rejected.mother in israelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13715046177293916034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-67861046214228152442007-09-03T05:24:00.000+03:002007-09-03T05:24:00.000+03:00If the basic premise of the story"The school rejec...If the basic premise of the story<BR/>"The school rejected the child, supposedly saying that the reason was because 1 grandparent of the child was Sephardi." is true I find this story quite disturbing.<BR/><BR/>I don't know the school in question, but the common practice in elite schools of vetting intake, and expelling poor performers, may raise the measured level of a schools final academic success, but surely the real measure of a school is what is achieved with the coarser clay?<BR/>A school that can motivate and help all of its students to aspire to greater things and becoming better Jews, no matter their original intellectual potential is a measure I would be more interested in.<BR/><BR/>Mr BagelMr Bagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983605031622179624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-43953624803121988582007-09-03T02:00:00.000+03:002007-09-03T02:00:00.000+03:00She should find another school for her kid. Period...She should find another school for her kid. Period. <BR/>That school does not accept him. Big deal. <BR/>I would not send my kid to that school even if I had the choice. Sounds like a weird institution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20257999.post-28522996038595237072007-09-03T00:29:00.000+03:002007-09-03T00:29:00.000+03:00I would be very careful to not blame the victim he...I would be very careful to not blame the victim here. She is not the person with the power, and therefor is simply playing within the framework laid out by the school. Claiming her son looks and acts ashkeNAZI doesn't make her bad. There could be a variety of reasons the school is good for the family, maybe it is the closest school, or all of his friends will be attending it. Futhermore, even if she wanted to send her son to school there b/c it is an ashkenaz school, so her kid would not be around sephardim, I would still be careful about the blame.<BR/><BR/>Individuals react on the actions of institutions, institutions simply act. We shouldn't tolerate this type of discrimination, and if any Torah observant rabbi were to decide on it, they would recognize the connection between all JEWISH souls, and not the various distinctions provided to us by being forced into diaspora.Ben Bakhshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07160612978292716901noreply@blogger.com