Posted on 12/25/2005 10:37:22 AM PST by Alouette
Well put! The Jewish people in our community have not only done that-- Chanukka songs are included with a selection of Christmas songs, religious and secular, at our local public high school -- but they've gone a step further and volunteer to staff hospitals and other places relying on volunteers on Christmas Day so their Christian friends and neighbors can enjoy a day off. And, yes, the Christians reciprocate during Jewish holidays.
2. Boarding school.
> If she wants her kids in a school with heavily Jewish influences, she should either move or, better yet, homeschool her kids, as many academics that I know do.
And I suppose that it would be more normal for her to go to say "Syria", and not feel quite as Jewish?
Why is it such a surprise to Jew's and others that America is an Historically Christian nation? Are these people stupid? I suggest not, but I am quite sure they think that the masses here are.
News Flash world: we aren't going to set here and let you and the left in this country railroad us anymore!
Vulgar and utterly stupid anti-Christian xenophobia. Most of the country is Christian - basic fact of culture and civilization. Having mental problems over basic facts of reality is silly. Shrill whining from cranks during the Christmas season has gotten out of hand.
If she hates Christian holidays she should not live in a Chrtistian country. Israel is always waiting with open arms.
Your family sounds so fun! I am a co-moderator of a group of parents of deaf kids and I wanted to tell everyone merry christmas. Then I remembered we had jewish people too. I spelled "hanukah" phonetically "hannakah" and hoped no one would notice or be offended.
"Jews are 2% of the American population."
I think I factored them in with the atheist.
The only Jews I've ever known were Messianic Jews...some of whom returned to Israel to teach the Orthodox Jews that they missed it...the Messiah has come and gone.
"Let me add one final comment to Judy: When you have achieved the staus that Jesus holds in our society, then you can tell us how we must worship."
Positively excellent! I love it!
I don't think it's a state thing. I'm in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and we have lots of private schools, including a bunch of Catholic schools. There's a big Catholic high school not far from me
Part of it might be the large Italian community that was originally rooted in Philly, but has moved to the suburbs. I don't know of any Yeshivas around here, but the Philly area never had a huge Jewish community like New York does
She could always move to Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia or Libya. No Christmas there.
The state laws require a lot of specialized teachers in private schools once you get above elementary. Not a problem when you have a couple hundred students, but if you're starting a new school, expecting an initial enrollment of 50, it's tough to have the specialists for every subject. Our local Catholic school just started going through High School a couple years ago, after they had grown so much that they had to double the size of their elementary school. The School Board here is strongly opposed to competition. They've had a couple lawsuits filed against them for denying Charter School charters. A couple were for schools that were already certified PA Charter Schools in other parts of PA, but somehow didn't meet the criteria here. They are more concerned about the 'financial losses' from allowing charter schools than anything else.
I see. In an area with a high density of private schools and a good highway network, you can have the specialists part-time in a number of schools, being at School A on Mondays, School B on Tuesdays, etc. If you stagger school hours a bit, you might even be able to have a few public high school teachers moonlight at the private school, scooting over at the end of the public school day to teach a class at last period in the private school
Damn, this lady is getting ripped left, right, and center on the Jerusalem Post blog. Comments look to be about 80 to one against her position.
Nobody likes a killjoy.
Imagine moving to Israel and asking them to stop singing Jewish songs because it made you feel uncomfortable.
To anyone who reviews the comments made by you in the six weeks since you signed up here, it looks like you are trying to trash Free Republic all on your own.
Those are "fighting words", cupcake.
Kapos were "animals" fighting for the boon of one more instant of life from their NAZI masters. Kapos obeyed immediately, or died immediately.
Alouette is no "KAPO".
What makes you think it's OK to call a person such a thing?
Oh yeah, because it's easy to be brave over the web, huh Cupcake?
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