Channel 13’s legal analyst, Aviad Glickman, was recently a guest on the podcast “The Tweeters” with Akiva Novick, during which he lamented the lack of Jewish studies in Israeli state schools.
“I look at the schools today—my children study in secular frameworks, and my heart aches,” he said. “There are many things they don’t learn there. My son didn’t know what tefillin were.”
“I think the schools are lacking… I don’t have such a broad perspective, but yes, Judaism is part of our identity, and the state education system is greatly lacking in Jewish studies.”
He referred to the growing divide among Am Yisrael and expressed pessimism about the future. “We are far beyond a cold civil war. I’m not sure it will be possible to bridge this gap.”
It is not the first time that an Israeli has lamented the lack of Jewish education in Israeli schools.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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7 Responses
These schools are the core of the Zionist agenda and ideology how can any religious Zionist deny that the goal of the zionists is not to uproot Yiddishkeit. if it was not then how come there is such a glaring lack of Jewish studies in their schools how come loads of Jews don’t know what tefillin is a core tenant of Judaism, and wouldn’t know what shabbos was either if it wasn’t so much in the public sphere
Before all the Kanoim start siding with this guy it is important to point that he very easily could have sent his children to a Mamlachti Dati public school. At the very least. When he had the option of sending his children to a free public school that would that would have taught about Torah paid for by the Israeli government he only has himself to blame
Seriously. You have only yourself to blame.
Don’t blame the school. Within a few minutes, at any time including now, you could explain what tefilllin are.
The father isn’t limited from teaching
All around the world there are or at least were compulsory prayers and religious studies – except in the so called “Jewish” state of Israel…
Hey newsflash for all you secular
Jews out there there’s a thing called. YESHIVA!!!