{"id":292638,"date":"2016-08-24T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=292638"},"modified":"2021-01-16T13:48:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:48:27","slug":"ultra-orthodox-jewish-sect-bans-dangerous-higher-education-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/ultra-orthodox-jewish-sect-bans-dangerous-higher-education-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect bans \u2018dangerous\u2019 higher education for women"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Why mainstream media report always this kind of news when it comes from a Muslim mullah but never when it’s from Jewish Orthodox people? Because they belong to Jewish Zionist owners? Double standard at its worse!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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It is \u201cdangerous\u201d for women to be university-educated and the practice is now banned among the Satmar sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews, according to a decree viewed by The Independent. The ban is to prevent \u201csecular influences\u201d in the \u201choly environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has lately become the new trend that girls and married women are pursuing degrees in special education. Some attend classes and others online. And so we\u2019d like to let their parents know that it is against the Torah,\u201d\u00a0reads the decree, written in Yiddish and translated by The Independent.<\/p>\n

The decree was issued by Satmar rabbis in New York, where the sect is based, but will apply to all its followers globally.<\/p>\n

We will be very strict about this. No girls attending our school are allowed to study and get a degree. It is dangerous. Girls who will not abide will be forced to leave our school,\u201d\u00a0the decree reads.\u00a0\u201cAlso, we will not give any jobs or teaching position in the school to girls who\u2019ve been to college or have a degree.\u201d<\/p>\n

“We have to keep our school safe and we can\u2019t allow any secular influences in our holy environment,\u201d\u00a0it continues.\u00a0\u201cIt is against the base upon which our Mosed was built.\u201d<\/p>\n

Satmar is one of nine major sects of Hasidic Judaism, a spiritual revival movement that began in the 18th century in what is now Western Ukraine and spread from there. The sects are named after the towns in Eastern Europe from which their adherents came. Many Hasidic Jews, known as Hasidim, began arriving in the US after the Holocaust, and now there are about 250,000 in the country, 95 percent of whom live in the New York area, according to population consultant Jonathan Comenetz\u2019s 2006 \u2018Census-Based Estimation of the Hasidic Jewish Population\u2019. They remain\u00a0radically insulated from the secular world\u00a0that surrounds them, forming their own\u00a0self-sufficient communities\u00a0and economies.<\/p>\n

Hasidim, regardless of sect, follow a hereditary spiritual authority called a Rebbe. Men and women are\u00a0kept separated outside of the home. Men are expected to be devout scholars of the Torah (the Hebrew Old Testament) and other Jewish teachings. They wear 19th century Eastern European clothing, long beards and payot (sidecurls), and black, wide-brimmed hats. Women rarely work, devoting their lives to being wives and mothers. Their dress is modest \u2012 no pants may be worn, and knees and elbows must be covered \u2012 and married women keep their hair covered.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Satmar community chooses to live in an isolationist enclave. They believe that the secular elements of the world would tarnish the lives and beliefs of those who consider themselves to be religious,\u201d\u00a0Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, executive director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, told The Independent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are probably other factors at play, but, ultimately, the results are devastating. Because people from similar communities are not provided with a foundational primary education, they cannot pursue higher education nor careers,\u201d\u00a0she continued.\u00a0\u201cWhen one does not have access to education, career opportunities are out of reach. It forces one to stay within the community as everyone’s personal lives are tied up with their professional lives as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time that an ultra-Orthodox sect has sought to ban higher education for women. In December, a senior Haredi rabbi in Israel told a conference for high school principals that such education is worse for the ultra-Orthodox world than the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe furnaces of this generation are burning more than the furnaces of Auschwitz, more than the cellars of the inquisition with all their tortures, these are spiritual furnaces,\u201d Rabbi Aviezer Peletz was quoted as saying by the Kikar Hashabbat news website.<\/p>\n

Haredi Judaism is a step above Hasidic Judaism in the classification of Orthodox sects. Haredim make up about 10 percent of Israel’s 8 million citizens. They battle with the secular government\u00a0over military conscription\u00a0and other aspects of modern life, including the use of the internet and smartphones. In June, a Haredi rabbi from Jerusalem\u2019s Nahloat neighborhood\u00a0banned girls above the age of five\u00a0from riding bikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe inform parents that they are obligated to forbid their daughters from age five and up from acting in this illegitimate way,\u201d\u00a0his ruling said.<\/p>\n

Bike seats\u00a0\u201ccause serious damage to their modesty\u201d\u00a0and the sight of girls sitting on them can be\u00a0\u201cprovocative\u201d\u00a0to men, the rabbi said.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/356885-satmar-bans-women-university\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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