
Downstream: Leaving London’s Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community w/ Izzy Posen
Novara Media
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The Importance of Language in Religion
Judaism is a very unlike Christianity, it's more like Islam actually. It's very much about the practice and the Manushi, right? So yeah, your day is literally guided by these thousands and thousands of little things. And the more you study, the more there's things to do. Now there's very little room for secular education in boys school. From the age of 13, there's zero secular education. That's when boys go to Yeshiva. The community fights tooth and nail to maintain this education system which believes is necessary for its survival. They mak about the kids don't sit GCSEs. But maybe that's more to do with language than it
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