Haredim To Get 12 New Gender Segregated College Campuses

Twelve new haredi gender segregated campuses will be started this year in Israeli colleges and universities as part of a government program meant to increase the number of haredi students receiving a higher education.

Haredi men in class at Kiryat Ono College

Haredim To Get 12 New Gender Segregated College Campuses
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com   

Twelve new haredi campuses will be started this year in Israeli colleges and universities as part of a government program meant to increase the number of haredi students receiving a higher education. The new program will have classes in fields including computer science, optometry, architecture, and art, Ynet reported.
 
The program – which has a budget of NIS 180 million ($47 million) – is expected to increase the number of haredi higher education students by 20% immediately and double the total number of haredi higher education students by 2017.

The new haredi campuses will be located near existing academic institutions and will offer similar courses. But the haredi campuses will maintain strict gender segregation.

The High Court of Justice, which has previously ruled that similar gender segregation on public buses and sidewalks is illegal, has not yet ruled on the legality of gender segregated, publicly funded, public higher education.

6,000 haredi students now study in three haredi colleges, the Haredi College of Jerusalem, Mivhar College in Bnei Brak, and Kiryat Ono College’s haredi campus.

"This is a move of great social value," Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar reportedly said. "Integrating haredim into the system is highly significant both from the social aspect and from the aspect of integrating into the labor market."

Comments

[seymour]

if they do not force others to comply or go there I see no big issue. but they must allow others of the same sex to go there

[Bassy the Haredi Slayer]

I do not see it as a bad thing at all, unlike public transportation and public roads the segregation is not being forced. No one is being forced to go to that particular program, from the article the program is part of existing colleges so when you go to that college you can choose the co-ed or the single sex program.

[Blima]

Haredim To Get 12 New Gender Segregated College Campuses

Haredim - "college" - I can't believe what I am reading! 12 of them yet! We are truly in the generation of Moshiach!

[Bob Guthrie]

"Part of a government program meant to increase the number of haredi students receiving a higher education."

While spousing segregation and misogynism,... Oh, the irony.

"This is a move of great social value."

While reaffirming backwards basic human integration. eYup. Let's see the fireworks when these college male Haredim have to work alongside college taught Jewish or Goyim females, specially if secular. =P

[ah-pee-chorus]

this is terrible. no accommodation should be made to the charedi male dominant, misogynistic ideology. israel pays for their yeshivas which indoctrinate them into the dark age which is charedism and now they further encourage them to continue by sponsoring separation which goes against everything israel stands for.
it might seem appealing in the short run but the future price to be paid is immeasurable.

[The Anti-Schmendrick]

And what will happen? The graduates of these colleges will rise to the top. They will own and manage firms that hire secular employees as well.

Some people who are not charedi will want to study in these colleges rather than in the secular system. I can already see young women from traditional families with traditional values wanting to study in this framework as they don't care for the typical Israeli campus culture any more than charedim do.

[ana]

I thought Touro was created specifically for hareidim to have segregated classes why cant they just go there?

[Jeff]

And what will happen? The graduates of these colleges will rise to the top. They will own and manage firms that hire secular employees as well.

Why? Because a Toyreh education produce a keen intellects and a superior faculty for critical analysis? Yeah, we see examples of that here everyday.

[Jeff]

They're going to major in Art - and they still can't have women on campus? I agree with Bob. What's going to happen when they go out into the workplace? Are they going to petition the courts to enforce gender-segregation there as well? Will they claim their religious rights are being violated?

I suppose this could be a step in the right direction; however, APC may be right; this may merely be reinforcing their dark age mentality.

[moshe]

I thought Touro was created specifically for hareidim to have segregated classes why cant they just go there?

Turo in Israel (ie MAchon Lander)offers few academic programs.

[The Anti-Schmendrick]

They will do what many charedim do in the US and Europe - set up their own workplaces or work in charedi firms. Some of those firms will service large international clients, and some will even provide jobs to secular Israelis.

"education produce a keen intellects"

These colleges will produce graduates with far higher linguistic skills than that shown above.

[David]

Part of the modern educational experience is to learn in a mixed gender environment and even be taught by someone of the opposite sex.

This Charedi "education" does not reflect modern educational standards.

Whilst it is good the Charedim are actually trying to learn _something_ it is terrible that this concession has been made to their ignorance. Yet more resources diverted to the Charedim by having to provide a single gender environment.

Also, have the courses been "dumbed down" for the Charedim? Will they be able to do anything useful with them?

[Yoel Mechanic]

Seymour, agreed. and good point.

[ana]

Turo in Israel (ie MAchon Lander)offers few academic programs.

so let them add additional programs that are suitable for hareidim.

[Jeff]

These colleges will produce graduates with far higher linguistic skills than that shown above.

Yes, very clever. A typo got past me. Kol hakavod! Let's see you pull this with the third-grade English demonstrated here regularly by your Haredi brethren.

You really are what my father would call a shtick drek.

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

I thought the whole point of college was to be able to get close to members of the opposite sex.

[Shmaryah should change his name to Julius Streicher]

And what is wrong with that? Shmaryah" there is no doubt in my mind,had you lived 70 years ago in Europe,you would have been Hitlers propaganda minister and you would have done a much better job than Goebels,
and Hitler would have given you the added job of being the chief editor of the Shturmer
Your pathological self hatred and hatred towards Judaism is realy sick and depraved

[S M L]

Shmaryah should change his name to Julius Streicher

Wash your brain out with soap, fool. These people are so far from being holy or saintly that nothing anyone might say in this forum truly does their awfulness justice.

[Jeff]

Your pathological self hatred and hatred towards Judaism is realy sick and depraved

Translation: "Oy, nebech! He's making me see things I don't want to see!" Yes, it's a real shander.