Our spiritual reference point always has been Israel or Eretz Yisroel, not Europe.
I will never understand why thousands of Jews make a pilgrimage to Uman.
Our true Loshon Kodesh has been and always will be Hebrew.
The most important goal in teaching Torah is that the students understand it.
For hundreds of years it meant teaching in Yiddish, in this country (USA) our Torah leaders from 1-2 generations ago directed that Torah be taught in English.