Hashkafah.com: Court Orders Beit Yaakov School to Remove Wall Separating Ashkenazim, written by Elana

After a year of deliberations, High Court Justices Edmond Levi, Hanan Meltzer and Edna Arbel ordered the Beit Yaakov religious school and the Independent Education Center to nullify within a week all discriminatory practices and protocols that separate between Ashkenazi and Sephardic students, including the removal of a wall in the school's courtyard, unifying the two teachers' rooms meant for two different "learning tracks" and cancellation of the unlawful levies on parents of students in the "Ashkenazi-Hasidic track."

...reported discrimination in the Emmanuel institution, which included the construction of separate classrooms and separate entrances for Ashkenazim and Sephardim, imposing Ashkenazi-style prayer, separation fences in the school's courtyard, and different recess times for Ashkenazi and Sephardic students.

In the Ministry of Education's response to the High Court decision, the separation between Ashkenazim and Sephardim at the school was "religious and not ethnic."

However, the ministry's Director-General Shlomit Amichai also demanded that the school remove all signs of physical separation between the two learning tracks and to allow students to decide in which track she wishes to study.

Amichai also charged that "changes will be put in place in the spiritual code presented by the institution, including the cancellation of the directive that parents teach their daughters to pray at home using the Ashkenazi style, to commit itself not to allow clashes between the binding spiritual authority of the home and that binding at school, and to dress in accordance with the standard dress stipulated by the Rabbinical Council as mentioned in the code."

Amichai committed to continued overseeing of the educational institution in order to ensure that there will no longer be any discrimination on the basis of ethnicity.

I don't understand, it sounds like they had two programs for two cultures. They have different pronunciations etc...
The only issue I have is where it says "imposing Ashkenazi-style prayer" and it look slike they were discriminating against ashkenazim where it says "unlawful levies on parents of students in the "Ashkenazi-Hasidic track."

In America they simply have different yeshivos for ashkenazim and sefardim, here they had one yeshiva with different programs catering to the different cultures. Is it so different?

In America, Sefardim aren't banned from Ashkenazi schools. They might have their own, but that is strictly VOLUNTARY....

(although after PD's recent comment i promised myself not to post any more news...) i couldn't even imagine that such situation could exist

http://www.vosizneia...azim-sephardim/

And people wonder why the media sometimes refers to Israel as an "Apartheid State."

this isn't why.

Ashkenazi and Sephardi Halkaha is incompatible to some degree and to teach one standard to both is to confuse both

What a Chillul HaShem.

And that requires separate teachers' lounge and a wall dividing the playground?

Who is PD?

someone from your signature