{"id":723865,"date":"2010-04-26T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2704"},"modified":"2010-04-26T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T18:39:24","slug":"cleaning-up-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/723865","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Up Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        We&#8217;re cleaning up Jerusalem &#8211; one case at a time.<br \/>\n<br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><br \/>\nLast week, on the eve of Yom Ha&#8217;atzmaut, IRAC won a major case in the Jerusalem District Court.  We put an end to the Jerusalem municipality&#8217;s practice of providing exclusive additional funds to religious schools controlled by ultra-Orthodox political parties.<br \/>\n<br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><br \/>\nThe Jerusalem municipality&#8217;s allocation of millions and millions of shekels to Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) schools &#8211; at the expense of all other Jerusalem schools, especially when there are so many in dire need of financial support &#8211; was yet another example of how the Haredim use political power to secure government resources and win disproportionate benefits for their own communities.<br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re cleaning up Jerusalem &#8211; one case at a time. Last week, on the eve of Yom Ha&#8217;atzmaut, IRAC won a major case in the Jerusalem District Court. We put an end to the Jerusalem municipality&#8217;s practice of providing exclusive additional funds to religious schools controlled by ultra-Orthodox political parties. The Jerusalem municipality&#8217;s allocation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32jf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}