Belgian Court will decide "will Orthodox education be dismantled?"

Belgian Jewry, holding her breath, for the discussion to be held tomorrow (Wednesday), at the Constitutional Court, which will decide the fate of the Haredi education system in the country.

Some ultra-Orthodox educational institutions in Belgium, teaching general studies regularly and is recognized by the Ministry of Education. For example, the Yesodey Torah Elementary School recognized and budgeted accordingly for the plan adopted by the secular studies. But schools such as the Hasidic Bobov, Belz, Vizhnitz Satmar and others, are fully accredited.

New education minister who took office recently passed a law in Parliament, which states that, a child who attends an accredited school, to go through at the end of the year, a comprehensive test. If it turns out that a student has learned general studies state may embeddable in the educational system, as it sees fit.

In light of the new law, all children are equal before the law and every child in Belgium must go once a year, the Ministry of Education exams.

The new law endangers the Hasidic education especially where there are no learning general studies. Appeal against the law was submitted to the local court, and the court determined that the only possible repeal is a constitutional court in Brussels.

Community activists harnessed first class top lawyers and filed an appeal on the issue. All Rebbes and Rabbis of Belgium are informed of the proceedings.
In fact, there are other countries like England, where the law requires running tests secular studies, once a year, but activists detected illegal finds to solving the situation. "The feeling is here, closed in on all sides. Comes with something fatal, since failure to revoke the law is really an existential threat to all educational institutions in Belgium ", say a residents to B'Chadrei Charedim .

At the request of the Shatz Rebbe, residents of the city were all boys and girls in educational institutions, to say these days tehillim for the success of the campaign. The rabbis asked furthermore, that the public pray for cancellation of the law and that women plead while lighting the Shabbat candles.

The court is expected to give his decision tomorrow, or at the latest in a few days. Antwerp residents are now very tense and biting their nails prior to the case, as noted above, will determine the fate of the state of education for good or for bad.

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!