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This is outrageous

This article makes me go into a fit right now, I can almost feel my cells bursting into a gazillion pieces.

What in the world is going on now?!

A new rabbinic ruling handed down in recent days, however, is likely to put an end to the trend. According to the decree, haredi women, many of whom earn a living as teachers, would no longer be able to pursue academic degrees in education in Beit Ya’akov, the country’s largest chain of educational institutions for women. The move is likely to significantly limit their future earning capabilities, as teachers with advanced degrees can earn far more than those without them.

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I cannot imagine a ruling more sexist, demeaning, divisive, and unsound as this.

And let's go back to the reason why women are striving to make it in the workforce in the first place.

Men.

To support their torah-studying husbands, wives take on the role of earning an income which the key rabbis and haredi community finds to be essential.

So pardon me for my outrage but what is their rationale for stopping women, who are in many and all ways mentally as capable as men, not given the opportunity to pursue a higher education?

And mind you, we are talking about a mere bachelor degree here. Not a post-grad, post-PhD, post-post-doctoral terminal degree.

Right. The fourth year of education which leads to a bachelor diploma has been ceased.

What's more, women with higher degree will have more problems finding jobs in the educational institution.

You know what we are facing here?

An epidemic.

One that deprives women of their basic rights to enhance their own intelligence.

Speaking from a woman who is pursuing a higher degree herself, I cannot help but feel a great sense of sadness for these haredi ladies, who just want to challenge themselves and engage in a mentally-fulfilling passion of learning. Besides sadness, I guess the next best emotion to describe how I feel right now is rage.

Blood-curdling rage.

The decree, said Bar Ilan University’s Professor Menachem Friedman, one of Israel’s leading authorities on the haredi community, is an extreme move but nonetheless in step with socioeconomic trends sweeping the haredi community for years.

Besides the fact that the ruling party is trying to block off the paths of capable, thinking women, I don't understand the worries of the leaders, and how it represents a socioeconomic trends sweeping the haredi community.

Number one: this is a trend that is sweeping across ALL soccieties. Women getting a higher degree is not a minority feministic idealism that is plaguing the areas known only to capitalism.

And number two: if this is a trend, it should not be a trend to worry about. Instead, it should be celebrated.

Instead of celebrating a movement that recognizes the positive image of women in the economy, these leaders are downplaying one of the most vital sources of the economic and social growth in the world since World War 2.

I believe that everyone should be given an equal opportunity to live up to their own expectations and ideals. Whether they are able to achieve it is one matter, but at the very least they should be given that opportunity sans red tape and bureaucracy and mindless sexism.

This undermines the women's position in an economically-viable society in the first place.

Their husbands are able to take time off to study the torah, which is absolutely fine because that is what the MEN want to do.

So where does that leave the woman? In a manner of submission and respect and love (I hope), they encourage their husbands' choice of endeavors.

Women have to take on the roles of income generators in the family.

And now, they are denying women the very rights to receive the level of education they desire in order for them to enhance their marketability and value in the modern world.

They could just be looking for a means of increasing their knowledge.

In order to support their torah-studying husbands!

“When you deny an entire society the ability to fit in with the modern economy, you deny it of its only mean of surviving in modern life." - Bar Ilan's Friendman

Right. Its ONLY mean. Not one of the means.

Depriving a society of viable knowledge and manpower.

I'm infuriated.

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This is insane.

Sane reflects @ this location permanently