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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If teaching Hebrew makes Sela a "Jewish" school, then apparently the exact same logic would make any school that teaches Spanish a "Catholic" school, since most people who speak Spanish are Catholic.

Faulty logic.[/quote]

You are misrepresenting the logic presented.  What people are saying is, there is not a critical mass of non-Jewish people who have demonstrated they value Hebrew, since there are not any other major reasons to learn it if you're not connected to it (it is not useful in world business).  Also, this country is about to be majority Spanish speakers.  It is absurd to draw any parallels between the strong alignment between Hebrew and Judiasm, and the much broader relationship Americans have with Spanish language and say Catholicism is just as connected to Spanish language as Judiasm is to Hebrew.  Spanish is SO much broader: this is the US where there are so many job and community connections to learning Spanish which have zero to do with Catholicism.

Are you really going to try to assert with a straight face that currently in the US there is a significant job or community benefit to speaking Hebrew that involves a major population outside the US Jewish community?  Where is this significant population of non-Jewish Hebrew speakers?  But there is a ton of people who are not ethnically or culturally Spanish-speaking and yet they speak Spanish.  Because an almost majority of the US population speaks it.  It's an asset in the job world, part of North America is a Spanish-speaking country.  Every US state has a significant and growing Spanish-speaking population.

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