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Britain’s ultra Orthodox Haredi community is facing an existential crisis and threat. TCW writer Karen Harradine reached this conclusion following her visit to one of their schools and after interviewing its headmaster and Asher Gratt, the senior Rabbi in the community who first drew TCW’s attention to the impact of proposed schools legislation on the community. The previous parts, Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part […]

Britain’s ultra Orthodox Haredi community is facing an existential crisis and threat. TCW writer Karen Harradine believes it to be serious and urgent, and one that cannot be overstated. In this series she explains the damaging impact that proposed government schools legislation would have on their independent faith-based yeshiva schools, destroying the ancient tradition of Torah education in this country. Part 1 is here, […]

Britain’s ultra Orthodox Haredi community is facing an existential crisis and threat. TCW writer Karen Harradine believes it to be serious and urgent, and one that cannot be overstated. In Parts I (here) and 2 (here) of this series she explains the damaging impact that proposed government schools legislation would have on their independent faith-based yeshiva schools, destroying the ancient tradition of Torah education in […]

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 […]