Gedolei Torah Shlita have come out strongly against Israel’s chareidi religious public schools known as Mamlachti Chareidi Dati, referring to yeshivos that have joined the state system to benefit from funding, and are now totally under the rule of the Ministry of Education.
In the letter signed by Maran HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita and HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita, the gedolim prohibit joining the state system and to stand firm and cling to the traditional education without implementing any change.
They warn of late there are those who seek to interfere in chareidi education, and this is unacceptable and therefore it is prohibited to enter into the state chareidi religious public school system. The gedolim add that regarding those schools that have already joined the system, they are to break away immediately.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Telling the fiddler to stop taking money from those whose tunes he doesn’t want to play.
I do not all the details here but from what it seems if we had this in America all the Rabbonim will be jumping for joy. Is this not what we wish we had here to have Yeshivas paid by the government? I get it that Israel is a bit different.
haha…and with Hashems help we will be successful in continuing the education of baseless hatred, judgment, and discrimination until Mashiach comes.
The problem is though that the chinuch atzmai system isn’t a good one either. It must be improved and individualized.
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The rabbonim would not be jumping for joy if the price to be paid for the state funding was total state control over the subjects to be taught.
We’re not talking about math here. The state wants to regulate the cultural content of what is taught in the frum schools, and that is going to be the price to be paid for funding.
#2– Those who advocate accepting public funding for frum schools in America assume the government will write a check and leave it at that, but their whole argument collapses when the government starts to enforce its own curriculum on the schools (especially in subjects where a traditional Jewish perspective is different that the traditional American perspective, not to mention treatment of the many subjects we don’t talk about on YWN since people with little ears are listening).
I think I heard that the schools of Tzanz and Karlin are part of the State system to obtain funding.
And Chabad plus the Maayan SHAS SCHOOLS.
When you take money from any source you accept the strings that come with it.