It's Too Expensive To Be Jewish In the USA

[ben Shunamit]

Originally Posted by Duvduv

Pruzhany, Pruzhany. You don't know about Talmudic Judaism and you don't know about Reform. I guess the Baalei Tosafos were "Reform" since they had different ****as, as did Rabbenu Tam, as did Geonim, as did Rambam. Can you intellectually address any of the issues I raise without casting insults?

The answer might appear to be "no," but I don't believe it. Pruzhany does not always cast insults, and he has more background than he follows, according to his own words. He will discuss this on an "intellectual" basis when he chooses to. Should we start a pool?

[Hannibal Flavius]

Originally Posted by ben Shunamit

Absolutely not. While the tuition prices seem high, nothing else she complains about does. There IS a problem as mentioned in the title, but it is NOT what she describes. How about if they were orthodox, and considered it essential to send their kids to a Jewish school, instead of a secular school? While still paying taxes to send everyone elses kids to public school? THAT would be something to complain about.

Where I live, you can't send your kid to a public school, YOU HAVE to choose a religious school, If I was an Orthodox Jew, my kid would be going to Catholic or Baptist school because there is nothing else and public school is out of the question, your kid would die in preschool before he got to first grade where he would be tortured and persecuted beyond belief. I believe in Judaism, but if I were going to adhere to all the rules, it would be too expensive.