[etni] Leo Baeck WIZO demonstration

From: Reuben Moses <mreuben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:58:39 +0200
Make your own "story"
Yesterday, a teacher at Leo Baeck High School in Haifa went on a one-day, Yom 
Kippur fast in Jerusalem to broadcast the message that it is time the country 
did some serious self-examination about what we have been doing to education in 
the last decade, at least. Leo Baeck and WIZO pupils, teachers and parents also 
went up to Jerusalem to conduct a special service of prayer. The service 
contained excerpts from the text you can find in the links below. 
http://www.1075.fm/ShowNews.asp?NewsId=4662
Of course an action like this, and action in which no blood is spilt, does not 
attract public attention. But it is our job to teach the press too. We have to 
exploit the fact that the moral power of our position, our committment to the 
future of our children and our country is a far more potent weapon in the long 
term. 
If each district, each school, takes upon itself to hold a day of "prayer" 
along these lines our message will come across much more stronly. We can see 
how, for the first time that I recall as a teacher in this country, public 
support is rallying round us. This support eventually has to have an impact on 
the clerks from the finance ministry, on a minister of education whose 
loyalties change according the hat she is given to wear (she could not even 
respond to the claim made on the radio that a professor earns 26,000 shekels a 
month for working six hours a week!). It also does wonders for keeping our own 
spirits up as we fight the good fight.
Do look at the link. Demonstrate your own powers of leadership by setting up an 
assembly involving your own local community. Adapt the text to suit your needs, 
and draw the attention of your local community to what this conflict is really 
about.
Yours nonanonanonanon,
Reuben Moses

ps. Just to show how much the press DOES need to be educated, there is now a 
pupil from youd beth who has also started a hunger strike. Excited, HOT news 
came to interview her for the scoop, completely ignoring Nir, also from Leo 
Baeck, who so far is the most long-standing person on hunger strike. He has 
been on hunger strike for eight days now. But a story is a story is a story...
[etni] Leo Baeck WIZO demonstration

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