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Strange. It is typically liberals that complain about government financing of religious schools. Not for the separation of church and state when it's not convenient, eh?
Strange. It is typically liberals that complain about government financing of religious schools. Not for the separation of church and state when it's not convenient, eh?
Did you miss the part where this takes place in Israel? There is no separation between synagogue and state there. You have to leave the country if you want to marry someone of a different religion than you (or if you are halachacally Jewish and your fiance is not no matter if they identify as Jewish) because while marriage will be recognized, it cannot performed in Israel.
In this case, Israel has always subsidized religious schools regardless of religion. However, Christian schools (which also serve Muslim and Druze Israelis) are protesting because their funding has been cut and their fees capped, leaving a shortfall. They believe that funding for Jewish schools - particularly ultra-Orthodox schools - has not been cut. This point is part of a greater debate about the subsidizing of the ultra-Orthodox in Israeli society in general, and one that many Jewish Israelis are concerned about. Ultra-Orthodox schools are purely religious and often don't teach math or science in lieu of serious Torah study, and their students are later largely exempt from serving in the military or being a productive member of society.
What is unclear is where the truth actually falls - somewhere in the middle, I suspect.
The Israeli government and the private schools have discrepancies between their perception of how much these schools are funded. Haaretz reports: "Yet the ministry maintains that it does provide the schools with 75 percent of the funding that regular schools get. The rub is that the ministry reduced the state-subsidized teaching hours per student in Christian schools, so the 75 percent is fewer shekels than it used to be.*
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.676300"
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