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Bindmans and Blackstone win Supreme Court victory in Jewish school case

This case need never have arisen had the Offices of The Chief Rabbi accepted a pluralistic approach in relation to the various denominations in the religion. Any person who knows this school is aware that there are many levels of observance amongst its pupils and their parents and differing backgrounds. By insisting that children, the offspring of non United Synagogue conversions, were excluded meant the school, its governors and the United Synagogue movement were on a slippery slope. It is irrelevant to state that "3,500 years of religious life has been swept away". The issue was neither matrilineal descent or race it was simply a schools statute that discriminated against individuals who were earnest and sincere but did not conform to an arbitrary set of criteria. I have, as you can guess, no sympathy for the United Synagogue or the Office of The Chief Rabbi. A more robust leadership would never have allowed this scenario to have developed.

18-Dec-2009

11:32 am