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Judith Ginsberg's avatar

Excellent article. Ignorance of the world was never a Jewish value.

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Michael Pariser's avatar

I was once looking for extra work (I am a high school English teacher), and a friend told me of a right-wing yeshiva looking for someone to teach "English" two periods a day. Not sure whether that meant English language/literature or just secular studies (which is how the yeshiva world generally refers to secular studies), I called to inquire. Yes, I was told, there was a job available to teach two periods a day -- approximately 90 minutes. When I asked if the job entailed teaching English language, I was told, "So English, arithmetic, whatever they need to know you'll tell them."

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