always here:
I suspect from your comment that you misunderstand. I did not move here to make a statement or to support settlement. This is not a small town that I live in, its quite large with many tens of thousands of people. We moved here because housing was cheap and its a chareidi environment…just like everyone else in this town.
g_a_w:
I think it would be a better idea to send your child to a yeshivah whose hashkafos you follow. It is very hard for a child to understand when a Rebbe is teaching fire and brimstone against TV and the child’s parents say ‘its ok to watch”. Otherwise I think you will just be undermining the yeshivah’s credibility in the child’s eyes.
Feif un:
I agree with you 100% on this. That is why we have Chinuch Atzmai in E”Y. What I tried to explain before was that I suspect (I never asked anyone) that the Yeshivos had to make a cheshbon:
-If we do not get government funding we will have to close down as parents can already not afford tuition.
-Most other yeshivos if not all are in the same situation as us.
-Having kids read Hucklberry Finn is not as bad as sending them to public school due to lack of yeshivos.
YU is a different case than yeshivos because it is primarily a school for advanced secular studies with what was supposed to be the benefit of a Jewish environment. Yeshivos though are a necessity as without them there would be know learning Torah at all.