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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

This makes me sad and I hope it's not how most people feel. I joined a jewish sorority in college. I am episcopalian but grew up with many jews and always joke I'm a friend of the chosen people. Also, jews are 1% of the world's population, right? And less than 5% in the USA? Don't y'all get bored?

Why would this make you sad? You call yourself an Episcopalian--Episcopalians themselves apart from others to attend Episcopalian churches--does this make you sad? The existences of churches of specific denominations? Are you wringing your hands with worry over their bordom?
The "chosen people" line is a trope that non allies like to tell people that Jewish people say--they don't
--a non Jew who is an ally of Jewish people in this era very deliberately

She's not asking to attend Jewish services, but to attend a Jewish school. Of course Episcopalians attend their churches and Jews their synagogues. You use Episcopalian as an example, but you do realize that Episcopalian schools are welcoming to all faiths, including Jews.

Jewish school only being open to Jewish kids is not a problem. The school (in part) teaches people to be about (not just learn about) the faith. If you are not there to be about the faith it doesn't make any sense to be there.

That's not true. Sometimes it's the best educational option in the area. Or very convenient geographically. Or the family wants to explore judaism a little. I know a family like that, 4/5 of the kids ended up Christian, one converted to judaism.

It can't be convenient or the best educational experience if you have no use for it, that is an impossibility. You issue seems to be "why do they dare have their own little thing."

"No use for it" is a rather subjective judgement.

Ok now you are on the kick of going to have a slick comeback for everything, not in good faith. Your goal here is to irritate people who want to to have a practical discussion about Jewish schools as the way they are (and do not consider what they are doing wrong).

You can certainly start your own thread for criticisms of Jewish schools, but I was responding to the topic brought up by the op.

They have a ton of typos on their website, I wouldn’t trust them to teach anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

This makes me sad and I hope it's not how most people feel. I joined a jewish sorority in college. I am episcopalian but grew up with many jews and always joke I'm a friend of the chosen people. Also, jews are 1% of the world's population, right? And less than 5% in the USA? Don't y'all get bored?

Why would this make you sad? You call yourself an Episcopalian--Episcopalians themselves apart from others to attend Episcopalian churches--does this make you sad? The existences of churches of specific denominations? Are you wringing your hands with worry over their bordom?
The "chosen people" line is a trope that non allies like to tell people that Jewish people say--they don't
--a non Jew who is an ally of Jewish people in this era very deliberately

She's not asking to attend Jewish services, but to attend a Jewish school. Of course Episcopalians attend their churches and Jews their synagogues. You use Episcopalian as an example, but you do realize that Episcopalian schools are welcoming to all faiths, including Jews.

Jewish school only being open to Jewish kids is not a problem. The school (in part) teaches people to be about (not just learn about) the faith. If you are not there to be about the faith it doesn't make any sense to be there.

That's not true. Sometimes it's the best educational option in the area. Or very convenient geographically. Or the family wants to explore judaism a little. I know a family like that, 4/5 of the kids ended up Christian, one converted to judaism.

It can't be convenient or the best educational experience if you have no use for it, that is an impossibility. You issue seems to be "why do they dare have their own little thing."

"No use for it" is a rather subjective judgement.

Ok now you are on the kick of going to have a slick comeback for everything, not in good faith. Your goal here is to irritate people who want to to have a practical discussion about Jewish schools as the way they are (and do not consider what they are doing wrong).

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

Wow. Expand your horizons maybe?

By virtue of being a minority, our horizons are expanded.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

This makes me sad and I hope it's not how most people feel. I joined a jewish sorority in college. I am episcopalian but grew up with many jews and always joke I'm a friend of the chosen people. Also, jews are 1% of the world's population, right? And less than 5% in the USA? Don't y'all get bored?

Why would this make you sad? You call yourself an Episcopalian--Episcopalians themselves apart from others to attend Episcopalian churches--does this make you sad? The existences of churches of specific denominations? Are you wringing your hands with worry over their bordom?
The "chosen people" line is a trope that non allies like to tell people that Jewish people say--they don't
--a non Jew who is an ally of Jewish people in this era very deliberately

She's not asking to attend Jewish services, but to attend a Jewish school. Of course Episcopalians attend their churches and Jews their synagogues. You use Episcopalian as an example, but you do realize that Episcopalian schools are welcoming to all faiths, including Jews.

Jewish school only being open to Jewish kids is not a problem. The school (in part) teaches people to be about (not just learn about) the faith. If you are not there to be about the faith it doesn't make any sense to be there.

That's not true. Sometimes it's the best educational option in the area. Or very convenient geographically. Or the family wants to explore judaism a little. I know a family like that, 4/5 of the kids ended up Christian, one converted to judaism.

It can't be convenient or the best educational experience if you have no use for it, that is an impossibility. You issue seems to be "why do they dare have their own little thing."

"No use for it" is a rather subjective judgement.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

This makes me sad and I hope it's not how most people feel. I joined a jewish sorority in college. I am episcopalian but grew up with many jews and always joke I'm a friend of the chosen people. Also, jews are 1% of the world's population, right? And less than 5% in the USA? Don't y'all get bored?

Why would this make you sad? You call yourself an Episcopalian--Episcopalians themselves apart from others to attend Episcopalian churches--does this make you sad? The existences of churches of specific denominations? Are you wringing your hands with worry over their bordom?
The "chosen people" line is a trope that non allies like to tell people that Jewish people say--they don't
--a non Jew who is an ally of Jewish people in this era very deliberately

She's not asking to attend Jewish services, but to attend a Jewish school. Of course Episcopalians attend their churches and Jews their synagogues. You use Episcopalian as an example, but you do realize that Episcopalian schools are welcoming to all faiths, including Jews.

Jewish school only being open to Jewish kids is not a problem. The school (in part) teaches people to be about (not just learn about) the faith. If you are not there to be about the faith it doesn't make any sense to be there.

That's not true. Sometimes it's the best educational option in the area. Or very convenient geographically. Or the family wants to explore judaism a little. I know a family like that, 4/5 of the kids ended up Christian, one converted to judaism.

It can't be convenient or the best educational experience if you have no use for it, that is an impossibility. You issue seems to be "why do they dare have their own little thing."

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

This makes me sad and I hope it's not how most people feel. I joined a jewish sorority in college. I am episcopalian but grew up with many jews and always joke I'm a friend of the chosen people. Also, jews are 1% of the world's population, right? And less than 5% in the USA? Don't y'all get bored?

Why would this make you sad? You call yourself an Episcopalian--Episcopalians themselves apart from others to attend Episcopalian churches--does this make you sad? The existences of churches of specific denominations? Are you wringing your hands with worry over their bordom?
The "chosen people" line is a trope that non allies like to tell people that Jewish people say--they don't
--a non Jew who is an ally of Jewish people in this era very deliberately

She's not asking to attend Jewish services, but to attend a Jewish school. Of course Episcopalians attend their churches and Jews their synagogues. You use Episcopalian as an example, but you do realize that Episcopalian schools are welcoming to all faiths, including Jews.

Jewish school only being open to Jewish kids is not a problem. The school (in part) teaches people to be about (not just learn about) the faith. If you are not there to be about the faith it doesn't make any sense to be there.

How is this different than Catholic parochial schools, where students prepare for First Holy Communion and Confirmation and learn about saints and sacraments and other Catholic things. Non-Catholics attends these schools and sit out some of these activities. They also attend Mass and must not go up and take Holy Communion, but that doesn't seem to be an issue for the community.

You are making the Jewish community sound bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

That doesn’t mean it has to be 100% Jewish. What is wrong with you. Seriously.

My great grandma fled her home, her country, as a teenager to escape pograms. Her son, my grandpa, told me about how his job in the Army was to go into concentration camps after WWII ended and liberate the jewish prisoners, and then walked out of the room to cry remembering how awful they looked, and how it could hav been him had his mother stayed in her home country. His daughter, my mother, had rocks thrown at her head for being "a dirty jew" while walking home from school. I was shut out of camp activities once other kids in my bunk found out I was jewish, and chased off a city bus for wearing a Star of David, and now can't allow my kids to say anything in public that identifies them as Jewish. That is five generations of anti-semitism in my family. I want my kids to have an environment where not only is it safe to be jewish, but they know a community of jewish people and grow up thinking that's right.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

This makes me sad and I hope it's not how most people feel. I joined a jewish sorority in college. I am episcopalian but grew up with many jews and always joke I'm a friend of the chosen people. Also, jews are 1% of the world's population, right? And less than 5% in the USA? Don't y'all get bored?

Why would this make you sad? You call yourself an Episcopalian--Episcopalians themselves apart from others to attend Episcopalian churches--does this make you sad? The existences of churches of specific denominations? Are you wringing your hands with worry over their bordom?
The "chosen people" line is a trope that non allies like to tell people that Jewish people say--they don't
--a non Jew who is an ally of Jewish people in this era very deliberately

She's not asking to attend Jewish services, but to attend a Jewish school. Of course Episcopalians attend their churches and Jews their synagogues. You use Episcopalian as an example, but you do realize that Episcopalian schools are welcoming to all faiths, including Jews.

Jewish school only being open to Jewish kids is not a problem. The school (in part) teaches people to be about (not just learn about) the faith. If you are not there to be about the faith it doesn't make any sense to be there.

How is this different than Catholic parochial schools, where students prepare for First Holy Communion and Confirmation and learn about saints and sacraments and other Catholic things. Non-Catholics attends these schools and sit out some of these activities. They also attend Mass and must not go up and take Holy Communion, but that doesn't seem to be an issue for the community.

Difficult to enroll after early elementary due to the Hebrew component. If your child doesn't have any Hebrew language experience it would be quite difficult to manage those classes and I'm not sure they'd let a child in in middle or high school without it. I'm Jewish and the school is too religious for my reformed Jewish faith family. It's a great school but suited for conservative plus religious families.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

This makes me sad and I hope it's not how most people feel. I joined a jewish sorority in college. I am episcopalian but grew up with many jews and always joke I'm a friend of the chosen people. Also, jews are 1% of the world's population, right? And less than 5% in the USA? Don't y'all get bored?

.2% but who’s counting.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

That doesn’t mean it has to be 100% Jewish. What is wrong with you. Seriously.

I don’t believe that the PP is Jewish. Any non Jewish family who purposefully sends their child to a secular Jewish day school like CES would be welcomed with open arms. If a child wants to learn Hebrew and Jewish studies, they are righteous among nations in my book.

Orthodox Jewish person here and I agree.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

This makes me sad and I hope it's not how most people feel. I joined a jewish sorority in college. I am episcopalian but grew up with many jews and always joke I'm a friend of the chosen people. Also, jews are 1% of the world's population, right? And less than 5% in the USA? Don't y'all get bored?

Why would this make you sad? You call yourself an Episcopalian--Episcopalians themselves apart from others to attend Episcopalian churches--does this make you sad? The existences of churches of specific denominations? Are you wringing your hands with worry over their bordom?
The "chosen people" line is a trope that non allies like to tell people that Jewish people say--they don't
--a non Jew who is an ally of Jewish people in this era very deliberately

She's not asking to attend Jewish services, but to attend a Jewish school. Of course Episcopalians attend their churches and Jews their synagogues. You use Episcopalian as an example, but you do realize that Episcopalian schools are welcoming to all faiths, including Jews.

Jewish school only being open to Jewish kids is not a problem. The school (in part) teaches people to be about (not just learn about) the faith. If you are not there to be about the faith it doesn't make any sense to be there.

That's not true. Sometimes it's the best educational option in the area. Or very convenient geographically. Or the family wants to explore judaism a little. I know a family like that, 4/5 of the kids ended up Christian, one converted to judaism.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

That doesn’t mean it has to be 100% Jewish. What is wrong with you. Seriously.

I don’t believe that the PP is Jewish. Any non Jewish family who purposefully sends their child to a secular Jewish day school like CES would be welcomed with open arms. If a child wants to learn Hebrew and Jewish studies, they are righteous among nations in my book.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I hope not. I enroll my kids in a jewish school because I want them to make predominantly jewish friends, and to be in an environment where jewish people are the majority.

This makes me sad and I hope it's not how most people feel. I joined a jewish sorority in college. I am episcopalian but grew up with many jews and always joke I'm a friend of the chosen people. Also, jews are 1% of the world's population, right? And less than 5% in the USA? Don't y'all get bored?

Why would this make you sad? You call yourself an Episcopalian--Episcopalians themselves apart from others to attend Episcopalian churches--does this make you sad? The existences of churches of specific denominations? Are you wringing your hands with worry over their bordom?
The "chosen people" line is a trope that non allies like to tell people that Jewish people say--they don't
--a non Jew who is an ally of Jewish people in this era very deliberately

She's not asking to attend Jewish services, but to attend a Jewish school. Of course Episcopalians attend their churches and Jews their synagogues. You use Episcopalian as an example, but you do realize that Episcopalian schools are welcoming to all faiths, including Jews.

Jewish school only being open to Jewish kids is not a problem. The school (in part) teaches people to be about (not just learn about) the faith. If you are not there to be about the faith it doesn't make any sense to be there.