Jewish school 'racially discriminated'

[3ich]

Joodse kind geweigert op een school omdat zen moeder niet joods is.

Most Jewish schools in England will be forced to tear up existing entry rules after the court upheld an earlier judgment that a school in north London racially discriminated against a boy.

He was rejected from JFS â€" formerly the Jews’ Free School, in Brent â€" because his mother was not born Jewish.
The school went to the Supreme Court after three judges at the Court of Appeal ruled in June that the admissions rules were unfair. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court failed to overturn the decision.

It is thought the ruling will force most of the 38 Jewish state schools in England to rewrite their admissions policies.

Legal experts told the Telegraph that the ruling would not directly affect England's 6,700 Anglican and Roman Catholic schools. But it will inevitably focus attention on the admissions arrangements of all faith schools which have been criticised in the past for lacking transparency.

Lord Rodger â€" one of nine Justices who heard the case â€" said the decision meant “that there can in future be no Jewish faith schools which give preference to children because they are Jewish according to Jewish religious law and belief.”

“Jewish schools will be forced to apply a concocted test for deciding who is to be admitted [that] has no basis whatsoever in 3,500 years of Jewish law and teaching,” he said. “The… decision leads to such extraordinary results, and produces such manifest discrimination against Jewish schools in comparison with other faith schools, that one can’t help feeling that something has gone wrong.”

After the hearing, the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it was “extremely disappointed by this decision”.

It said it would lobby for a law change to allow Jewish schools to apply admissions rules based on the faith of children’s parents, which was a “fundamental right for our community”.

But the move was welcomed by groups opposed to faith schools.

Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, chairman of Accord, which lobbies for a major overhaul of faith schools entry requirements, said: "We hope this ruling will serve as a wake-up call to faith schools by showing that religious admissions rules must conform to the law of the land, though we will continue urging for all faith schools to stop discriminatory policies entirely. Taxpayer funded faith schools should serve not just themselves but also the community around them.”

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said after the ruling: “This is an important verdict. The commission believed that it had to intervene in order to preserve the same protection against racial discrimination for Jews as for anyone else â€" not least at a time when anti-Semitic groups are active across Europe.

“The decision of the court achieves that end; and it confirms that no school will be allowed to discriminate based on the ethnic origin of an individual.”

A boy â€" named only as M â€" was rejected because his mother was not born a Jew. She converted to the faith but this was not recognised by the Office of the Chief Rabbi.

It is a basic principle that a child is not recognised by the OCR and other bodies as Jewish unless his or her mother is Jewish.

JFS argued that its admissions policy giving preference to Jewish children when the school was oversubscribed was lawful because it was based on religious and not racial criteria.

Two legal experts told the Telegraph that Christian faith schools would largely be unaffected because they admit on the grounds of pupils' practising faith â€" normally whether the child has been baptised or is a regular churchgoer â€" not parental circumstances.

[3ich]

Hier hoor je dan niemand over.

[TheCFO]

Inderdaad, zulke uberverwerpelijke regels uit monotheistische hoek worden veel en veels te vaak maar als 'zo zijn ze nu eenmaal' weggemoffeld en gebagatelliseerd.
Klinkt als een goede beslissing van die engelsen.

[Señor Canardo]

Zulke nieuwsberichten worden denk ik eerder "weggemoffeld", omdat het niet past in een anti-islamitische agenda...

[3ich]

Zulke nieuwsberichten worden "weggemoffeld", omdat het niet past in een anti-islamitische agenda...

Blijkbaar hebben ze hier alleen oog voor.

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