With God’s help, 13 Kislev 5783

The current situation, in which left-wing and “progressive” elements roam around the education system and “peddle their wares” without the parents’ consent, needs to stop.

A committee should be set up made up of אנשי חינוך? No Hebrew allowed. Let’s fix. A committee should be set up made up of educators and cultural figures from all sectors, which would supervise and ensure there is balance in bringing in outside groups to deliver content in the schools. Just as there is the plenary of the Broadcasting Authority, in which there is supposed to be proper representation for all sectors so that there will be balance. If only…

Regards, Hanoch Henekh Fainshmaker-Palti

Better that the children of believers in the religion of progressivism not study Tanakh than that the priests of their religion set foot in religious or traditional schools..

To Immanuel — greetings,

Not all the parents who send their children to state education are “believers in the religion of progressivism.” Many of them are traditional, and even among those who define themselves as “secular” there are many who want their children to study and become familiar with the heritage and culture of their people. Therefore I suggest not leaving the struggle against the progressive takeover of state education in the hands of religious representatives like Avi Maoz, but rather establishing a supervisory committee that will represent the various shades among the parents in the “state education” system, and that will work toward a balance between traditional and progressive content, a balance that will give state-school students tools for judgment and choice.

Regards, H.F.S.

The struggles over preserving the Sabbath in the public sphere, too, are mainly for the sake of the traditional and secular public. Religious people in any case will not work on the Sabbath, but even someone who is not explicitly “religious” wants a weekly day of rest in which he can be quietly with his family, and the more the economy operates on the Sabbath, the more people are forced to “turn their Sabbath into a weekday” against their will. For their sake Shelly Yachimovich fought, not out of “religious” motives but out of a desire for the welfare of the exploited worker.

To Shatz,
Regarding state education among the traditional public, indeed as you say. I meant that it should be the parent’s choice, whoever he may be, that his children not have to be exposed to progressive brainwashing. And even if the principal rebels against Avi Maoz, the parent should have the right to choose that his son not listen to that brainwashing.

But under no circumstances, as you say, may one speak about a balance between exposure to traditional content and exposure to progressive content. Progressivism is not liberalism. It is a religion of falsehood and evil. Better to be exposed to nothing than to be exposed to progressivism. I prefer an atheist who openly hates Israel over an infantile, crazy progressive who in the end is evil and secretly hates Israel.

Correction: “But under no circumstances may one do as you say….”

To Immanuel — greetings,

I do not know whether it is at all feasible to lock the doors of the state schools against “progressive” messages, and perhaps on the contrary, since the children are exposed to such messages in the media and on the internet and from some of their parents, teachers, and friends — it is better that they also hear, in a controlled way, the counterarguments, and thus they will have the possibility of choice. Controlled exposure to arguments serves as a vaccine against the “superhighway.”

Regards, H.F.S.

In line 3:
… controlled exposure to arguments…

And a big question:

This coming Hanukkah, will they allow people to sing “Stronghold of my salvation…” since, heaven forbid, the name “Maoz” is mentioned there, or will they require people to drown it out with a gragger?

Regards, H.F.S.

Why shouldn’t the state become a federation, and everyone live in an entity with laws that fit his way of life? Let Tel Aviv and the center be one state with certain laws, Bnei Brak with different laws, and the periphery with laws of its own, and everyone will find his place.
Israel is not all that different from other countries in the Middle East.
Just as homogeneous Arab states like Qatar and the United Arab Emirates prosper, while artificial states like Iraq and Syria collapse, Israel too will collapse into itself. The Middle East scholar Dr. Moti Kedar proposed the Emirates plan for the Arabs of the territories. Why not adopt that in the Jewish sector as well?
Whoever wants capitalism will find a state that suits him, whoever wants a state governed by Jewish law will find a state that suits him, whoever wants socialism and progressivism will find a state that suits him, whoever wants an Eastern-style state like in the Middle East will find a state that suits him.
Everyone will find his place and not interfere with others.

At most there will be a shared army and shared security mechanisms, and that’s it. Like in the United Arab Emirates or the old United States.
Only this time everyone will take responsibility for his choices and won’t be able to dump it on the taxpayer.

I hope a tax revolt develops here and in the end separation will come that puts an end to all these conflicts. Otherwise there will be a civil war here in the future. Almost every state experienced a civil war at some stage that determined its identity after a crisis. I hope that here people will be wise enough to separate before an actual war breaks out.