Tag: British

In yesterday’s Part 1 of this series Karen Harradine explained why she has come to write about Britain’s ultra Orthodox Haredi community which she believes is facing an existential crisis and threat so serious and urgent it cannot be overstated.  Rabbi Asher Gratt: ‘We live for our children. Our whole life is dedicated for our children.’ THERE are an estimated 271,000 […]

BRITAIN’S 80,000 ultra-orthodox Haredi Jewish community are facing an existential crisis and threat which cannot be overstated.  In March, the Times ran a damning ‘investigation’ into ‘Hasidic’ boys’ schools, more correctly known as yeshivas, claiming these schools left ‘Jewish pupils barely able to read or write English’.  It gave such a distorted and biased account that, according to Rabbi […]