By Nathan Jeffay, The Forward: British teens get a taste of Orthodox Israeli life on reality TV
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Title:Family life and values
Name:Sharon
City: LondonState:
Not "hard to believe", or "silly" or simply a publicity stunt. This clearly demonstrates the values of family life and tough love. In the UK the young are all too often left to their own devices in the collapse of Church and community whilst parents increasingly hand over child care to the amorphous state. Learning becomes the preserve of schools in which traditional education has morphed into a multicultural tasteless stew. Children looking for boundaries that nobody provides dress up, or undress as the case might be, get drunk and live a free for all life. Although reality TV is often absurd and overboard providing a platform for minor celebrities passed their sell by date, this one shows two things: the first is how wayward children can be brought back into childhood and nurtured into responsible adulthood and the second shows the value and success of Israeli and Jewish life. I look forward to a British public seeing firsthand the success of Israel and Jewish values, hopefully changing its attitude to Israel and Jews based in their illogical Judeophobia.