rins:
I’ll take your Mathlete mention and raise you a L.A. Times shout out:
Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, chosen in February as one of Israel’s two chief rabbis, spoke to students in grades six through eight at Emek Hebrew Academy, the oldest and largest Orthodox Jewish day school in the San Fernando Valley…
Shy at first, [students] soon started raising their hands.
Rina Raphael began her question in English, but some of the academy’s rabbis loudly urged her to speak Hebrew.
“I’m nervous,” the 12-year-old said.
But mustering her courage, Rina asked the chief rabbi in Hebrew whether Israel should give up the Golan Heights to Palestinians to secure peace.
The students should pray for a solution, he said.
That’s right. Asking the hard-hitting Zionist questions since puberty.
See, this is where you’re supposed to use your standby line, “But I spent 5th grade in Israel!”
