Dear Always,
You can not connect it to Jewish or any other form of values, without taking out all that is valuable in it. Look how hollow Conservative Values and Liberal Values ring in today’s politics. What you end up with, is kids who have an abridged version of Torah. And use their energies to describe politics in the symbolism of their Torah. And they prattle on about being pro toeivah is worse than not following the moral code. And how we can never give our life to the study of Torah because then the government will shut down the yeshiva. And how the women can not be educated in Torah because then the men will have to have a higher standard. And following this rabbi but not this one. And how philosophical theories of history is avodah zarah.