Israel’s New Government Flies in the Face of the Country’s Western Critics
And can teach Americans a lesson about diversity.
June 17, 2021
The Woman Who Gave the Kibbutzim Their Junkyard Kindergartens
Malka Haas’s free-range kids.
Born in Berlin in 1920, Malka (neé Hilde) Haas rejected her parents’ assimilationist attitude, embraced Zionism, and soon after Hitler came to power left for the Land of Israel. She eventually settled in Sde Eliyahu, the religious kibbutz where she still lives, and went on to become the leading figure in Israeli early-childhood education. Her central pedagogical theory can best be summed up by the phrase “junkyard playground.” Matti Friedman tells her story:
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Like Many Who Came Before Them, Today’s Jewish Anti-Zionists Want to Rid Judaism of Its Particularity
The un-Jews and their forebears.
The Leader of France’s Hard Left Is an Anti-Semite of the Old Kind
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s statements about Jews would make Jeremy Corbyn blush.
The Woman Who Gave the Kibbutzim Their Junkyard Kindergartens
Malka Haas’s free-range kids.
Yiddish Is a Language That Can’t Be Disconnected from Judaism
Not just for kvetching.