Antwerp – The Bnos Jerusalem School Belgium is heaving a sigh of relief as an Antwerp court of appeals has decided to review an earlier decision forcing the all girls elementary school to accept two boys as students.
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The two boys in question, Yosef and Yaakov Friedman, are the sons of controversial figure Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Friedman, who sued Bnos Jerusalem for discriminating against his son as previously reported on VIN News. While a Belgian judge had originally ruled in favor of Rabbi Friedman, today’s ruling overturns that decision and begins a several year long process of reviewing the case.
According to Belgian news source Joods Actueel, the two boys are no longer enrolled at Bnos Jerusalem and their father was ordered to pay court costs.
In a telephone interview, a relieved Leibl Mandel, director of Bnos Jerusalem told the Jewish News, “This is very good news, not only for me but for the whole school and the rest of the Belzergemeenschap Jewish Antwerp.”
Borush Hashem!
Why is belz the only chreidi school associated with the yavneh/mizrachi organazation that brought it to this situaation to begin with!? woukld any cheridi school in israel dare to associate with the mizrachi?
Such akshonis….What makes this guy tick?? Is his wife in this with him too?
Poor kids. The perfect situation for them to go OTD pretty quick & pretty bad.
What a good way to start the day!
the older boy anyways had his own private teacher, because non of the other students came to school so he can continue doing so at home.
This guy should get a big smack in the face till he realizes how ridiculous he has been behaving !
His “15 minutes of fame” are over.
Maybe Ahamajad will open a new school for the in Antwerp….
according to what freidman said on the zev brenner show this is a discrimanation issue,, he said that the intire school is goverment funded and therfore can not discrimanate based on sex ,, if thats the case i wonder on what basis they overturend the preivious court dicision
Why in the world is he titled with the word “Rabbi”?????????
I must be missing something.
Why would he want his sons to go to an all girl school?
henceforth the friedman children should be referred to as “former belzer students” just like the father is referred to as former NK member
put aside all the nonsense the real victims in this case are the children
Belz rabbi is very clever! They belzers wanted to do a lot of things but the rabbi said they should sit and wait everything will be good!!! Great news!!!
Where’s the busha in all of this! Those kids will certainly be embarrassed being singled out in an all girl school. It would be traumatic to say the least for them. very strange.
I don’t agree with the arguments that these boys will be a ‘bad influence’ on whichever school they attend. The Torah turned an entire nation of am ha’aretzim into ovdei Hashem; you mean to say It can’t do the same for two erhliche boys?
I think this has more to do with future shidduchim, more specifically: the awful way some families handle shidduchim.
“First of all, a woman is not meant to learn Torah…”
What garbage. The only reason women are not taught Talmud is because men can’t stand the embarrassment of a woman knowing more and understanding better than them.