HaGaon HaRav Meir Kessler, Mora Dasra of Modiin Illit, has published a letter against the Ministry of Educations involvement in kindergartens in the city and has instructed kindergarten teachers and assistants to ignore the new ministry program.
In his letter, Rav Kessler explains an assembly was held in preparation of the new school year and it was during this event that the ministry district supervisor distributed information which pertains to the kindergartens.
Rav Kessler ignores kindergarten employees to ignore the pamphlet on nature, science and technology, adding its title is misleading, entitled Ma Rabu Maasecha Hashem (?? ??? ????? ?’). Rav Kessler explains the pamphlet was distributed to introduce foreign concepts at the expense of chareidi education including stories from the weekly parsha and yomim tovim, with the latter leading to Yiras Hashem among the little ones.
Rav Kessler concludes a kenos will be held on Tuesday, 26 Menachem Av at which time the pamphlet and the ministrys actions will be addressed in detail.
(YWN Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This problem was going on for a while. About time there’s 1 Rav putting his foot down and sticking up for the Torah. Hopefully, other schools will follow.
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This is absurd.This is the kind of evil,sneaky stuff that Christian missionaries do -handing out pamphlets that look “kosher” but are really subterfuge for their evil propaganda.It’s outrageous that the Ministry of Education would try the same thing to influence Jews away from Torah observance!