Cartoonist Yoni Gerstein's impression of the Jewish family lighting Chanukah lights under assault
The traditional public in Israel has begun voicing its protest. The spiritual crusade which the Israeli people is waging against the protective walls of the Jewish people regarding reforms and Reform geared to storm the barricades of Judaism is tightening its noose.
The heavenly city of Jerusalem is under siege. The remnant of the Beis Hamikdash (the Kosel) is under attack: conversion, kashrus, education, Shabbos, the family structure and its pure genealogy. They have even mongrelized the Hebrew language in which Knesset representatives express themselves ideologically and maliciously. They ostensibly speak in the name of "the public" in order to obfuscate issues and definitions. They primarily attack our educational institutions in order to raise a generation of not only apikorsim, but a generation altogether ignorant of Judaism but expert in Christianity.
According to the complaints of many traditional parents, their children learn about Chanukah and Christian and Moslem celebrations all in one breath to copy other schools which have already succeeded in introducing such dual festivities for some time. Only this past Monday did the Knesset Committee on Education hold an emergency meeting on "organizations which teach Judaism in secular government schools contrary to pluralism."
Prime Minister Bennett, during his previous tenure as Education Minister, introduced his "Tali" program as part of the mandatory studies on Judaism, where only pluralistic minded organizations were authorized to promote their educational curricula — all without serving a public tender. And because only pluralistic inclined organizations were permitted to do so, heresy abounded and the spirit of Christianity infiltrated the schools together with that of Reform.
The soul of the young generation was poisoned, and ever since, the siege on Jerusalem has tightened its stranglehold. The jangle of the iron battering rams pounds increasingly against the city walls. (Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai informed the press of the American reactions of the Religions Minister's reforms: "the Conservatives and the Reform are good news".)
