tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post7338790343417413775..comments2024-03-27T16:27:03.093+02:00Comments on Shiloh Musings: Our First LawyerBatyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-77328405013444378552009-08-21T06:38:33.735+03:002009-08-21T06:38:33.735+03:00Hadassa, good examples. Years, decades ago a stud...Hadassa, good examples. Years, decades ago a student who participated in a program in Israel learned Hebrew very quickly. Total immersion plus classes. Nowadays they don't need it. Even if they prepare their own food, they shop in a supermarket. At the old grocers, you had to ask for each item... in Hebrew, and there were no anglo ghettos.Batyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-28640052717363669722009-08-20T19:07:54.508+03:002009-08-20T19:07:54.508+03:00Shalom!
Integration depends totally on the will of...Shalom!<br />Integration depends totally on the will of the oleh/olah. Place of resident helps greatly, but does not entirely determine successful integration. One of our relatives lives in Beit Shemesh and attends a beit knesset that, although most of the congregation is Anglo and doesn't know Hebrew nearly as well as English, has a rav that, although he is also an Anglo, gives his talk in Hebrew so that all will feel welcome to come. The relative's wife choose to work in an office where she'd have to speak in Hebrew so that she wouldn't get stuck in an American ghetto.<br />Muse, I'll add that the programs, and for that matter most yeshivot catering to English speaking students, do not do enough to even teach the students the Hebrew language, let alone culture.Hadassanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-48361431267124909812009-08-18T06:37:54.810+03:002009-08-18T06:37:54.810+03:00goyish, I wonder if the newer generation of anglo-...goyish, I wonder if the newer generation of anglo-olim will really integrate on the level that we and Yitz did, since so many live in immigrant ghettos barely speaking Hebrew.<br />Also, the old foreign student programs were total immersion in Hebrew and Israeli culture, while today, and the past couple of decades, most programs keep the kids far from regular Israelis and many forbid them to travel to places like Shiloh and Kochav Hashachar.Batyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-76791189590668093112009-08-17T22:57:56.299+03:002009-08-17T22:57:56.299+03:00One of the things that I think has gotten better i...One of the things that I think has gotten better in Israel over the years is that fewer people treat new American olim as if they were born yesterday. It may have something to do with the fact that we are better organized with AACI, Nefesh B'Nefesh and Tehila and that we are already in the second generation of kids who have spent their post-HS year in Israel and know their way around. Anyone who doesn't is able to network with someone like Yitzhak, and there are many more now in his footsteps. He gets the credit for showing the way. May we see the massive aliya from North America soon, before it's too late. Of all the things Rav Kahane HY"D warned about, everything has come to pass except the danger to Jews in America, and there the handwriting is already on the wall. Jews, come home!goyisherebbehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09380171052449799815noreply@blogger.com