High schoolers spark outrage with ‘Yizkor’ poster of former students – Israel News

College students on the Kfar Pines Ulpana (spiritual women highschool) sparked outrage final week after displaying a “Yizkor” (memorial) poster that includes residing women who had left the varsity earlier than graduating, in response to Israeli media.

The poster used wording normally used for fallen IDF troopers and victims of terrorism, together with saying a woman had “fallen” as a junior, implying that she had died. 

“How would you react as mother and father to see an image of the daughter as if she had died?” wrote the mum or dad of one of many women within the show on Fb. “When my daughter knowledgeable the tenth grade trainer on the Kfar Pines ulpana that she was leaving, all she needed to say was ‘you may come again to us on all fours’. This condescension, it seems, permeated the ladies of the ulpana.”

“If after 4 years which can be supposed to coach, to inculcate excessive values of alternative in life, of purity of character, of accepting the opposite and their selections, of ‘and be very cautious in your souls’, not solely as a rule of warning on the roads, and never solely as a cliché, not as a joke as a result of this does not make anybody snort, and it is even disgusting,” added the mum or dad in a publish that was later deleted, in response to N12.

“As a substitute of schooling of all the gorgeous values of our individuals, the ladies of the Kfar Pines ulpana expressed insolence and lack of schooling, an absence of boundaries, and that is mirrored on different ranges. All I’ve left to do is thank God that I took two daughters out of there.”

Abie Moses, nationwide chairman for the Group of Victims of Terrorism, condemned the show, telling Ynet “Correct habits precedes the Torah.”

“The ‘Yizkor’ demonstration offered at an official occasion of the Kfar Pines ulpana signifies a disconnect and lack of values. We won’t let such a show cross that reveals contempt and disdain for the reminiscence of those that perished. The administrators of the ulpana are the primary ones liable for this and will personally apologize to the previous college students who had been humiliated in public and to the bereaved households of the 24,068 killed IDF troopers and victims of terrorism.”

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The Kfar Pines ulpana responded to the uproar, stressing that it noticed the show as “a severe and really inappropriate act, which was finished with out pondering and with out understanding its that means and we’re within the midst of an academic course of with the ladies concerned,” in response to Srugim.

“We’re sorry for the heartache prompted to the ladies and their households, and we apologize for that and hope that the ladies concerned can even discover a approach to apologize to them.”

The ulpana claimed that “the occasion befell in a classroom setting and was organized by the scholars, with out the involvement or participation of the academic employees of the ulpana.”