The rabbi at my Shul is moving to Israel. He's taking his daughters there next week so they can start school. They don't know Hebrew. It should be interesting.
The blood-in-matzot myth is old. This rhetoric always comes up just before Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. (And I know it doesn't make any sense since those aren't the holidays that CALL for matzah, but any reason is a good reason for anti-semetism.) My kids had matzah for breakfast... just checked the ingredients to make sure--no blood.
I am so bloody ANGRY about the teaching in English thing. It's a 'pilot' in 10 schools. I mean -- do the kids even know English in a good enough level to learn other subjects in it? And what about news articles with reference to those subjects? Will they be written in English because people won't know how to write 'Versaille' in Hebrew? Or how to fucking say Bill of Rights? And what about all about those terribly clumsily-worded Democracy concepts?
I'm sorry for your rabbi and his daughters -- but honestly? They'll need to learn it. If you live in Israel long enough, you DO get familiar with the terms and all of that.
Yeah. The blood-in-Matzas is definitely old. Especially the bit in Yom-Kippur. I just . . . wtf.
I agree with you, in Israel they should teach subjects in Hebrew.
The bit about my rabbi was just a random observation. The rabbi is fluent in Hebrew, it's his daughters I'm more worried about. (The oldest just had her bat mitzvah... bad age to move across the globe, no matter what language you speak.)
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The rabbi at my Shul is moving to Israel. He's taking his daughters there next week so they can start school. They don't know Hebrew. It should be interesting.
The blood-in-matzot myth is old. This rhetoric always comes up just before Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. (And I know it doesn't make any sense since those aren't the holidays that CALL for matzah, but any reason is a good reason for anti-semetism.) My kids had matzah for breakfast... just checked the ingredients to make sure--no blood.
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I'm sorry for your rabbi and his daughters -- but honestly? They'll need to learn it. If you live in Israel long enough, you DO get familiar with the terms and all of that.
Yeah. The blood-in-Matzas is definitely old. Especially the bit in Yom-Kippur. I just . . . wtf.
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The bit about my rabbi was just a random observation. The rabbi is fluent in Hebrew, it's his daughters I'm more worried about. (The oldest just had her bat mitzvah... bad age to move across the globe, no matter what language you speak.)
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