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AddReply(325984,"Teaching Torah","Elana","Jerusalem","07/22/08","I have worked with many non-religious Israeli kids and the majority know almost nothing about Judaism. It is a big tragedy.");
AddReply(325943,"Tali school is a front for Reform/Conservative movements","Dan","Jerusalem","07/22/08","We\'ve been fooled,  this is a stealth effort to fund the Conservative and Reform movements.\n\nLook at the site of the Tali school and see who is on the board, people like \"Rabbi\" Einat Ramon, from the Shechter Institute, \"Rabbi\" naama Kelman from HUC\n\nhttp://www.tali.org.il/english/board.asp\n\nThen there\'s the Genger prize established by Aryeh Genger, is that the same Aryeh Genger who was Ariel Sharon\'s money man in NY?");
AddReply(325904,"The Melchiors","Daniel","Kyoto","07/22/08","The Melchior family have for a long time (if I remember correctly, 10 generations) controlled Scandinavian Jewish communities by demagoguery, threats, and lies. Michael Melchior is just like his father (Bent Melchior?) and his grandfather.\nThese people are bad news, and it\'s best to stay as far away from them as possible- they\'ll smile at you, make you wonderful inspiring speeches, and stab you in the back.\nDr. Klein, I agree that if the religious community reacts correctly then this is an opportunity. But Michael Melchior has generations of experience ruining frumkeit, and he has both the ability and the insight to carry it though. He knows that what you suggest will never happen, and that in fact it will weaken frum Judaism just as his father did in Denmark, where Jews are nominally \"Orthodox\" but (with the exception of a very few) are in practical terms what in Israel would be considered Reform. He will do it in Israel too- with the big smile and the wonderful speeches, he will put a dent in the frum Jewish scene and call it Orthodox Judaism. History will repeat itself.");
AddReply(325714,"I\'m with you Dr Klein - this will be a positive change","Adam","Monsey, NY","07/21/08","Hashem has blessed the average Israeli (but not the political establishment) with a large measure of truthfulness.  What Americans describe as \"harshness\" or \"rudeness\" is really truthfulness - even when it\'s not polite.\n\nTo that end, the vast majority of Israelis recognize that G-d exists, and that \"Orthodoxy\" (for lack of a better term) is the only authentic application of our Torah.  \n\nIndeed, I have much more respect for a secular Israeli who is \"modeh al ha emes\" (admits to the truth of Torah) than a liberal rebel group trying to remake Judaism in their own image.\n\nBecause of this ingrained trait of Truthfulness, secular Israeli students, and indeed their parents, will have no objection to teaching authentic Torah concepts in secular public schools.  What the students do with that information is their choice.  \n\nJudging by some of the kiruv statistics I\'ve seen, up to 1/3 of secular Jews who learn about Torah Judaism for an extended length of time become observant \n\n(I don\'t know what defines \"observant\" in this statistic - but it\'s still a promising piece of information)  ");
AddReply(325695,"Vain hopes!","Mike","vienna, VA","07/21/08","You have already been preempted.  Yuli Tamir will hire only apostate teachers to teach this new cirriculum.  If you are lucky, there will be a couple of token reform homosexuals among all the Israeli aheists, just to prove that everything is \"pluralistic\".  The Israeli elite will NEVER permit the Jews to take power by peaceful means, whether it be population growth or \"social engineering\".\n\nWake up and smell the gunpowder.  These people are out to kill you!  Only Medinat Yehudah is the answer.  Only partition into a Jewish State and an Israeli State can save the Jews of the Holy Land from a second Shoah.\n\nP.S.  Those tired of pipe dreams are welcome to visit virtualjudah.wordpress.com for a realistic answer to the current problem. ");
AddReply(325588,"Melchior is Hareidi ? Now, that\'s news !!!","","","07/21/08","");
AddReply(325585,"It sounds good, except....","chava","yerushalayim","07/21/08","What you\'ve written sounds good, except .....  I read that the education ministry has decided NOT to hire religious teachers.  Finding religious teachers who are able to teach as you\'ve suggested in a pluralistic environment without coercion would be hard enough.  But finding non-religious teachers who are interested in presenting what you suggest, and are open to encouraging any children who decide to look at actual mitzvah observance as a possibility, will be next to impossible.  You\'ll end up teaching something that will allow the ministry to say they\'re teaching more Judaism, while at the same time, giving children nothing worth keeping. Maybe it\'s better than they get nothing at all, and later search for something. This way, if they later want to search, they\'ll say they \"know\" about Judaism and that\'s not what they\'re looking for.  Teaching Judaism as a \"religion\" is not what we want or need.  ");

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