Chareidi lawmakers headed by Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush are working to eliminate the regulation compelling schools receiving state funds to include secular subjects, referred to in Israel as ‘core subjects’. The cancelation of the speculate studies is part of the coalition agreement signed between Likud and Yahadut Hatorah to undo the regulation set into place by former Education Minister (Yesh Atid) Shai Piron.
Interestingly, Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid addressed the chareidi effort with a letter to the Chief Rabbis, in which he calls upon them to oppose the move since by doing so, chareidi children will be less educated and this will negatively impact their efforts to one day earn a livelihood since English and math are essential in today’s world. He warns that if Porush succeeds, there will be more hatred in Israel as well as more ignorance, stressing today many chareidi families want their children to have an education but they are not heard.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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“Good” as in a good idea to eliminate any teaching of core secular subjects?? So we should make it even more difficult for chareidi children to function in society and earn a parnassah?? I somehow don’t know which among the taryag mitzvos the Ebeshter tells us to make our children ignorant so they can grow up and beg for tzadakah to survive?
Which Yeshiva world does YeshivaWorld represent? Hesder yeshivos? Why is there this constant anti chareidi slant?
Why not write that the chareidi MKs are acting on the explicit instructions of Rav Steinman? Are you concerned that it is a Bizayon for Rav Shteinman? If so you do not have the viewpoint of the Yeshiva world.
BTW the Yated in Israel is the representative of Rav Shteinman and your piece blastic it’s editorial was also a big chutzpah ands begs the same questions that I raise here.
Perhaps you truly regret ever calling your site YeshivaWorld. How about baalebatim world. (And I mean with all the negative undertones of that characterization that exist in the actual Yeshiva world)
Gadolhadorah,
You are a reform Rabbi. How much did Head rasha Rcik Jacobs pay you to denegrate the words of the chachamim?
You posts are always the same, and always disrecpectful of our sages. Do you know more than Rabbi Elyashiv, who held by Agudas position?
Maskillim!!!!