This great freedom should be a serious mental account of the secular education system.
As a woman who has been educated in this system for 12 years, I can say with confidence that some of the schools and parents from PHDM, and not for nothing, are also trying to forget what it means to be Jewish.
The children walking the streets in the middle of the day under the auspices of the teachers' union were just the spoiler, the spoiler.
The real great freedom begins now.
The teaching of Judaism in schools is declining, and in places that are trying to challenge this erosion, storms often arise around "religion."
These storms stem from an unexplained fear of Judaism and a basic lack of understanding of what it is.
Judaism is not just a religion.
It is also a religion.
It is primarily an ethnic group of people, a people, with a common history, language, traditions and laws.
Most of all, Judaism is a group of people with a common destiny.
The complete secularists who built the State of Israel in their hands - were Jews in every way. The justification for the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel they drew from Judaism, but in our shift we educate generations who see secularism as foreign to Judaism. Kids who do not understand why not Uganda, or in the latest version, why not Berlin.
The religious education system is also not free from value mistakes.
Unfortunately, there is one major issue that is completely ignored and equated in the two education systems, the religious and the secular - the Temple Mount.
We cannot make complaints to Knesset members and citizens who declare that the Western Wall is the holy place in Judaism.
We never taught them anything else.
The annual trips to all the schools come to Jerusalem and visit important places like Yad Vashem and the Knesset, but miss without batting an eyelid on the most important site.
Let's say the schools are not yet ripe for the idea of visiting the mountain - it is still not a sufficient excuse that in all my years as a student I have not learned what the Temple Mount is.
So did my friends who studied in the religious education system, albeit for different reasons.
There was a fear in the secular system that if they just mentioned that the Temple Mount is the holy place in Judaism - we would all become Messianic religious and on the annual trip we would be required to immigrate to Jerusalem to build the Temple, and in the religious education system
In any case, the result is similar.
We are the first generations in two thousand years who are privileged to educate Jewish children in a sovereign Jewish state and determine the curriculum in it.
Instead of taking advantage of this, we let fear take over us and disconnect future generations from themselves, from the Jewish people.
Before budgets and strikes, salaries and vacations, we should address the really important issue - what Israeli students are learning in schools, or more importantly, what they are not learning.
We had better take advantage of the great freedom to assimilate Jewish-secular values in the secular curriculum, and to reduce the alienation and ignorance of Israeli students on issues at the center of their identity - Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
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