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.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Foreboding Commentary on Israeli Politics and Education
I always enjoy reading Marc Shulman's daily analysis of what's happening in Israel. Sunday's is especially important and foreboding - and not so enjoyable. This time, the greatest threats are internal: the complete corruption of Israeli politics, as evidenced by the indictment of the former Prime Minister, along with some short-sighted kid-glove treatment of the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) population following yet another week of Shabbat rioting over the opening of a parking lot in a non Haredi area of Jerusalem. Add to this some educational statistics that are downright scary: the combined Arab and Haredi school population is about to cross the 50% threshold of all Israeli school children. Neither group is mainstreamed into the regular Israeli public schools and the Haredi "graduates" of the system are virtually unemployable.
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