Author of "Embracing Auschwitz" and "Mensch•Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi - Wisdom for Untethered Times." Winner of the Rockower Award, the highest honor in Jewish journalism and 2019 Religion News Association Award for Excellence in Commentary. Musings of a rabbi, journalist, father, husband, poodle-owner, Red Sox fan and self-proclaimed mensch, taken from essays, columns, sermons and thin air. Writes regularly in the New York Jewish Week and Times of Israel.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Threat to Pluralistic Education in Israel
The Gafni Bill, a law proposal to require the Israeli government to exclusively fund Haredi schools, passed its first reading in the Knesset last Wednesday. If the bill ultimately passes, then the future of any equality in the Israeli education system is at risk. The Israeli Religious ASction Center's position paper on the law proposal can be seen by clicking here.
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