willing to do some steps to Tora Judaism,we will be ONE Israeli people. United we are strong.

Please stop spreading the falsehood that this was an ethnic matter and not a matter of different levels of religiousity. Sephardi girls who adhered to the school's standards were in the same classes as the Ashkenazi girls, and there were Sephardi religious parents who chose to go to jail rather than follow the court's 'integration' order. This was a power play by a non-religious family who wanted a stick to beat the Chareidim with, and who falsely but successfully sold this as a case of ethnic segregation.

The Associated Press writers are to be congratulated for this article. It is replete with information and absent from it are the caricatures and sarcasm one finds in the Israeli press.

1. Don't refer to Heredim as "ultra-Orthodox." Other orthodox people consider themselves fully orthodox. Call them Heredim, or, if you must, "traditionalists." It's often a matter of how you dress, and whether you serve in the army. 2. Heredim are not exclusively Eastern European. There are Sephardi and Mizrachi heredim as well. (A lot the latter also wear the unfortunate black-white "penguin" clothing, which has no religious basis whatsoever.)