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understanding the value of a Jewish
camping experience and devoting her
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tion that children get in their homes;
Jewishness is portrayed not as a privi-
lege but as a burden.
There's a need for more and expanded
Jewish schools and the reduction in
the penalty that parents have to pay for
sending their children to such schools.
Every Jewish child needs to have the
option of going to Jewish schools, which
need to have an innovative curriculum,
including the Hebrew Bible, the Torah,
and emphasis on our heroes, Nobel Prize
Laureates, Jewish thinking and the like.
We need to have a team of teachers that
is knowledgeable, innovative, enthusiastic
and proud who will guide our children.
These are the best investments that
we as parents and Jews can make. It is so
embarrassing to find that a Baptist child
is so much more knowledgeable of the
Jewish Bible than Jewish kids.
American Jewish parents have to take
regular classes in Judaism, Bible and his-
tory of the Jewish people.
The word "indoctrination" has a bad
connotation. It means that if we want to
perpetuate Judaism and not be assimi-
lated, we have to make sure our children
follow a Jewish path. Muslims are right
to "indoctrinate" their children to pursue
the Islamic way of life.
Isaac Barr, M.D.
Southfield
David Grossman
Bloomfield Hills
Improve Jewish Learning
Your article "Flag Debate" (May 24,
page 25) did not come to me as a sur-
prise. The debate is long overdue.
In my contacts with Jewish students, I
found that many have identified with the
radical left, which is promoted regularly
by professors at many universities. Not
only do they question displaying Israel's
flag, but also question the legitimacy of
the Jewish state. Accusations of Israel
in connection with the "occupation','
apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing" of
Palestinians — "worse than Nazis"
— are constant themes in radical left
literature and a lot of it comes from
American Jews.
Why does it happen? Children are
forced to go to Hebrew schools that
become a traumatic experience. The
other problem is the Jewish educa-
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Religious Freedom
The playwright Charlie Varon explains
that he removed the Israeli and
American flags from the sanctuary
during his son's bar mitzvah because
"the nation-state" has no place in the
religious search for the universal and
eternal.
However, I believe that the universal
and eternal are not manifested in a
vacuum, but in the places in which we
live. Those countries that honor this
religious quest, allowing its citizens
to pursue and freely practice the uni-
versal and eternal truths that religions
reveal, should also be honored.
Israel and America are such countries;
by flying their flags ("Flag Debate,' May
24, page 25), we honor these countries
that provide a safe and nurturing place
for this religious search.
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