"Yesterday I shared in a story how important education is to me under the values of Judaism and I encountered responses that led me to write this post," wrote Natalie Dadon this morning (Thursday) in a post to her 800,000 followers on Instagram.
The anchor of the network referred to the wave of reactions to the video, in which she talked about the traditional education she gives to her son Rif and the fact that he is studying in a religious kindergarten.
"I knew that there he would receive content that he would not receive anywhere else," she said there.
"Does the strengthening of Jewish identity mean contempt for another religion?", Dadon wrote in the post, "The opposite is true. It is this wrong mix (in my opinion) between the holidays that produces contempt for both holidays. Chanochrismas? Is there such a thing? Why invent it?"
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According to Dadon, "Each religion should be given its place as it is with an emphasis on each person and his identity. Every child needs the toolbox that self-identity gives him, again, in my opinion and from my experience."
However, she emphasized again that the combination of religions belittles each religion and causes a misunderstanding of things.
"Of course I will explain to my child about the holidays of our neighbors and I will not reduce his world. Just as I teach him to love and respect every person regardless of who he is. For thousands of years the Jews lived throughout the Diaspora, in exile - my family in Morocco, my partner's family in Poland, so all over the world, and only One thing preserved them as a people, set them apart from the others, returned them to the land of their ancestors: 'their Judaism,'" she went on to say.
"How much light there is in Judaism"
"Just because of everything we've been through, just because of all the dangers we face, just because of the fact that someone is constantly rising up to kill us, we have to keep this one thing, pass it on to our child, preserve the roots. The world is global, the media is open to everyone, every child And a girl knows and understands what Christmas is, there is no reason for it to be part of our educational material," Dedon clarified in the post.
In conclusion, the network anchor wrote: "They will grow up, they will travel the world, they will celebrate the holidays in the places they go to, but due to the education we gave them, they will always know what their origins are and where they belong in the end and return home and how much light exists where our identity is strengthened. Precisely within This desire to respect other religions has beauty in maintaining Judaism and not cultivating cocktails in which there is distance and ignorance of each one regarding his own origins. And oh, how much light there is wisdom and knowledge that our Judaism gives us. We won."
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