(VINnews) — Legendary singer Benny Friedman posted a message on social media, calling for all Jewish parents to send their kids to ‘Jewish schools’. In an X post apparently directed at unaffiliated Jews or others who do not send their kids to Yeshiva, Friedman declared an “urgent call to action”. When one X user commented that the cost of tuition is not easy to afford (although he proudly sends his children to yeshiva), Friedman replied: “I agree! Absolutely we must figure out a way to make it more affordable. But the alternative is simply not an option!!”
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Friedman slammed the ‘failed’ modern education system. In addition, in the middle of the thread, Friedman was asked when his next album is coming out, and replied “Only Hashem knows the answer to that one.”
Friedman’s initial post — calling for a ‘Jewish Institution Revolution’ — said:
“Urgent call to action, fellow Jews! Please send your children to Jewish schools! It is time that every Jewish child receives a Jewish education.
Urgent call to action, fellow Jews!
Please send your children to Jewish schools!
It is time that every Jewish child receives a Jewish education.
It is abundantly clear that the modern education system has failed. Children and young adults who have come through this system…
— Benny Friedman (@BennysMusic) November 27, 2024
Only Hashem knows the answer to this one!
— Benny Friedman (@BennysMusic) November 27, 2024
“It is abundantly clear that the modern education system has failed. Children and young adults who have come through this system have shown in staggering numbers a shocking lack of moral sensitivity. A generation so confused, where everything goes!
“Please please please send your children to a proper Jewish school where they will be taught Jewish beliefs, Jewish values, and Jewish morals, by God-fearing teachers, based on the Torah that was given at Sinai, and centuries of Jewish scholarship and mysticism.
“Jewish philanthropists, Jews with means, please start/continue/increase making large donations to Jewish institutions so that Jews without means can still send their children to receive meaningful, robust, quality Jewish educations!
It is high time for a “JEWISH INSTITUTION REVOLUTION!”
“Our children deserve it. Our grandparents and great-grandparents deserve it. Thousands of years of Jewish history deserve it. Our world desperately needs it. Now more than ever.”
He concluded, “May we all be blessed with copious amounts of Yiddishe Nachas.”
Kol HaKovod, Benny! Much more choshuv than a new niggun, and those are nice too!
Kol HaKovod. May it be in the zechus of Tzvi hy”d
problem solved
How many unaffiliated Jews follow him on X?
Stop throwing boys out of yeshiva .
It will be nice to get the kids in school
In Lakewood you can’t get your kids in
So why doesn’t he speak about the actual issues