פרסומים אחרונים במדור "חדשות"

O Daughter of Chen, calm down. When my mother was in school, studying the Talmud in some manner or another was still part of the curriculum. She claims that it was one of her favourite classes, a class in which lively debate was encouraged, and many interesting things were discussed. At least, that's what I remember from her discussion of it.

/me rolls eyes.
(Sorry, IRC habits)

To tell you the truth? I don't think that I can really judge whether or not I would have wanted to. Right now, it would be nice to be able to actually argue with religious people, without having to cop out due to lack of knowledge. And it is a basic part of Jewish culture, after all.

About time you did. I am an odd person. Even by Technion standards, I'd wager.

Just an observation. It is for others to decide whether it is flattering or not to be considered odd.

To clarify things: Bat-Chen isn't and never was my daughter.

It was never my intention to assert it.

How unfortunate that one's attitude towards some subjects is so dependant on the way in which they are presented.

How infuriating that the Ministry of Education is not able to appoint proper presenters, in many cases.

I would look very carefully before just plain out assuming that the Hi-Tech refugees are such genii. If they are such genii, why were they fired? Do note that Hi-Tech companies are still recruiting in the Technion, for instance.

As for 2, a one-time visit to the mikve could result in the person visiting being infected by diseases, resulting from poor sanitary conditions in those places.

Teaching isn't necessarily brainwash.
A good teacher could use these lessons to explain how our Rabies were biased and where we are biased as a result.

Fact is that most teachers just read whatever papers they were given on the subject. This is usually too boring to be effective brainwash.

By the way, we keep thinking that education ministers have this power over our children minds, and as a result they seem to think that whatever changes they make to the sylabus has this amazing power.

Truth is, that with the current quality of teachers, we are lucky if the kids learn anything at all, even things that can be memorized, not to mention delicate ideas such as democracy and religion.