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Chareidi Women in "Wisconsin" Program Demand Separate Courses

By Betzalel Kahn

Chareidi women are unable to take courses held by Amin Ltd. as part of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Wisconsin Program because secular men and women study together in the same classes.

In recent years the Industry and Trade Ministry began running the Wisconsin Program, designed to train the unemployed and help them find jobs in different areas. Job seekers who arrive at the ministry's Employment Bureau are referred to Amin Ltd., which was contracted to operate the program, and they must spend 30-40 hours per week at the company's job- search center in order to qualify for Guaranteed Income benefits.

MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni recently received complaints from chareidi women saying the Employment Bureau sent them to take courses where they discovered that secular men and women study in mixed classrooms.

Many women enrolled in these courses worry that lodging a complaint could disqualify them from receiving Guaranteed Income benefits.

Rabbi Gafni sent a letter to Mrs. Dorit Novak, head of the Wisconsin Program Authority at the Industry and Trade Ministry, saying the course arrangements run counter to the religious way of life and demanding separate classes for chareidi women.

 

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