wolfishmusings, you are INCORRECT. It is teaching children that there is no nation like yisrael that is so friendly and does favors
Now you’re wrong on two counts.
Firstly, where do you get the idea that non-Jews never do favors for people, including giving them rides?
Secondly, it still *is* teaching them to get into cars with people they don’t know. And that, in today’s day and age, is just plain unsafe and wrong. I’d rather have my kids riding the bus — it’s far safer than being picked up by a stranger, even one who looks frum.
The Wolf