For my first encore...
Daf left to finishing to finishing Moed: 30
Today's quote: "I know that there are people out there who do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that!" --Tom Lehrer
Don't worry, this post is presidential-politics free (the subject is actually a line by Tom Lehrer on his "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer album). I actually wanted ( Read more... )
Today's quote: "I know that there are people out there who do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that!" --Tom Lehrer
Don't worry, this post is presidential-politics free (the subject is actually a line by Tom Lehrer on his "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer album). I actually wanted ( Read more... )
As for Israeli education, I read an article recently that the courts are letting the charedi schools cut back on secular education. That's pathetic to me. They tend to get the gemara skills, but no outside knowledge (it's the complete reverse of my main problem. No one's taking the Rambam's middle road with this).
Teachers are seriously underpaid, or in some cases not paid at all. My father last year around this time got a call from Skokie Yeshiva (where I went to high school) saying that they needed money because some of the rabbeim hadn't been paid for the last 2 months. It seems outrageous, but I looked into it, and it was actually true (it's because Skokie's college program is dying, so they don't have the same amount of money they had a few years ago to pay for teachers. Why they don't just get rid of the college, or merge with Landers--as has been proposed by Landers--is anyone's guess)
This is an absolutely pathetic situation for a religion that claims to value education. The future is going to be a problem that no one's really seeing very well yet.
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