Talk:Jews' Free School
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[edit] Articles for Deletion debate
This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 23:22, 11 September 2005 (UTC) JFS has recently been the centre of much attention in the UK Jewish media, particularly the Jewish Chronicle, because the son of a woman who converted to Judaism was not accepted by JFS. However, this was not due to the school's own policy, but because the London Beth Din - the local religious authority - refused to recognise the mother's conversion. After Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (the Chief Rabbi of England) pronounced the conversion unauthentic, the mother has since taken legal action against him
- I have never heard before of anything like this. Maybe the mother was not converted properly.--Dakota t e 14:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, The LBD ruled that her Israeli conversion had not been properly carried out and that she had failed to observe Judaism in any way since her geirut. Another conversion was rejected--ironically, the woman taught English at JFS. It's been alleged that the LBD has something against Israeli Rabbanut conversions. Alexisr 11:17, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bias?
It is also interesting to note that the school charges a fee for (compulsory) Jewish Education and that the "free" is in name alone. Further more, the school does not offer Religious Studies until sixth form and instead teaches only Judaism, a compulsory GCSE. To 'compensate' for the lack of RS the school holds "Multifaith" seminars although these are only once a year and usually involve simply talking about the problems jews face in the world, trying to be accepted and one year a black christian came to talk to us about the problems she faced. She did not mention her religion and so many students were left asking: "Since when was being black a faith?" While charging is unique to Jewish schools (IIRC), it is common practice amongst British faith schools to make RE about the faith they teach. This article suggests that JFS is somehow unique. The point of a faith school is that it teaches about the faith it espouses! Alexisr 11:17, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps it was free at some time in the past. The history coverage in the article is rather lacking. Nathanian 20:17, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
