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12 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Really curious about the Israeli school experience. Don't know much about it, but my understanding is much larger classes, much less individual attention and support. Is this true? And if so, how does it work for kids?
Do Israeli kids just have many fewer academic, social/emotional, religious needs? Do Israeli parents not expect the school to be the address for those needs?
Are there different expectations on what the schools will, can, should do? Is that because tuition-paying parents have different expectations?
I have some sense about the answers to all of these questions in the American charedi school system. Know very little about Israeli schools. Interested in hearing more from people with kids in them.

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I've spoken--publicly, in my shul, in my then-role as a rebbetzin--about how strange the role is. A job you get with no training or preparation, by virtue of your ketubah. (2/n)
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I am utterly blown away by this appearing in Cross Currents. (You can read it and tell me all the ways it falls short, or you can read it and realize what an enormous sea change is reflected in this discussion, of these issues, this way, for this audience. I prefer the latter.)
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Well, here's a conundrum. I declined to participate in this the first time I was asked. I changed my mind after a change on the masthead. And now find myself alongside a denunciation of "the subtle takeover of our generation's mind by progressive ideas...." (And @DBashIdeas. 😄)
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