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If these [censored] are so bent out of shape at having to sing the national anthem of their own country, let them get the [censored] out, and stay out!

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-teachers-and-parents-miffed-by-directive-to-sing-hatikva-at-kindergartens-1.373948?localLinksEnabled=false

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The recent Education Ministry directive requiring preschools in Jewish areas of the country to begin each week by raising the Israeli flag and singing the national anthem has sparked a great deal of criticism among both teachers and parents.

"It's brainwashing," said Avivit, a nursery school teacher in Ramat Gan yesterday, adding: "In my opinion, there are things that are a lot more important in the children's education at that age. If they want children who love the Land of Israel, the way to achieve this is not by singing the anthem and raising the flag."

Inbar, a mother of a 3-year-old enrolled at a Ramat Gan preschool, said children at that age still did not have a formed individual identity and it was unreasonable to require them to shape their national identities too.

The Education Ministry directive was sent to principals in April as part of an effort to strengthen the children's Zionist and Jewish identities and improve their educational achievements; but Hagit Gur-Ziv, an education counselor at the Seminar Hakibbutzim Teachers College in Tel Aviv, said in response: "There's no problem turning preschool children in Israel into parrots, children who know a text by heart that they cannot understand."

She added: "It's an insult to the State of Israel that of all of its values and many achievements, its education leaders choose to attribute value only to one almost technical national aspect involving symbols."

It reminded her of education in a totalitarian society, Gur-Ziv said.

Service education bill okayed

In other education news, the Knesset yesterday gave preliminary approval to a bill sponsored by MK Zevulun Orlev (Habayit Hayehudi ) that would make it mandatory to educate the children of the country about the importance of military service or alternative national or civilian service.

The bill had the support of the government and of Education Ministry Gideon Sa'ar in particular.



Offline Dr. Dan

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Ramat gan is a cesspool of anti religious leftists.  Every other restaurant there serves pork
If someone says something bad about you, say something nice about them. That way, both of you would be lying.

In your heart you know WE are right and in your guts you know THEY are nuts!

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A few leftists complain that's it.They had it too easy under the leftist animal yuli tamir
« Last Edit: July 19, 2011, 11:29:25 AM by mord »
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This is almost hard to believe that it's real.   :o

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That's mainstream Israel for you.  >:(

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This is more evidence of the sickness which has gripped the world. Leftists and atheists who have no gratitude nor love of anything other than their own lusts and desires seem to be in the news every day. Here in America we have those who want to remove the flag from the classroom, stop reciting the pledge of allegiance,  remove G-d from the Dollar bill, and legitimize every sort of perversion under the sun...

In the end we will defeat these self-haters and G-d haters. Throughout history there have been forces which have tried to overthrow G-d and to disparage those who are righteous believers.

Shame on those who hate their own nation, the nation forged from the blood of 6 million Jews. They should pray that when the missiles are raining on themselves and their children that Hashem will still have mercy on their perverted little souls.

What would be more important than teaching pre-schoolers about HaTikvah would be educating them as to the meaning of the SHEMA prayer...

SHEMA YISROEL HASHEM ELOKAYNU HASHEM ECHAD!

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
Duet 16:13-14

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Ramat gan is a cesspool of anti religious leftists.  Every other restaurant there serves pork

I am going there this Shabbat with my whole Yeshiva on an outreach Shabbat
David Ben Ze'ev Aryeh


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In Universities such as Haifa, they refuse to sing Hatikvah at graduation ceremonies, for fear that might upset Arab students !