Who’s afraid of the core curriculum: Haredi parents’ struggle to bring secular content to ultra-Orthodox schools

Rabbinical opposition, political pressuring and a conservative society that fears any kind of change: ultra-Orthodox parents across the country face huge obstacles in their struggle to give their children a broader education. They are willing to pay a high price for their battle – including harming their chances of getting a good matrimonial match for their offspring and even ostracism from the religious mainstream. As a result, just 12,000 children studied last year in the framework of the state-run Haredi education system. What role has Prime Minister Naftali Bennett played in this trend? A special Shomrim report.

December 7, 2021