The assault on Christianity by the Left is being joined by a wave of anti-Semitism.  Here’s an example.

The New York Department of Education has proposed regulations that would make private schools in that state the “substantial equivalent” of their liberalized public schools.

A group called Parents Union for Religious Integrity of Torah Education (PURITE) contacted the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) because their practice of ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Judaism is being threatened. These parents and rabbis have been training their children in small religious schools (yeshivas) for thousands of years. They teach math and English and lessons from the Torah and Talmud.

The new education regulations would outlaw this way of life and form of education.

PJI attorney Kevin Snider sent a letter last week to the N.Y. Department of Education to explain the conflict between Torah-based education and the goals of NY public schools.  The letter draws comparisons between the Jewish groups and the Amish culture.

In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the convictions of Amish and Mennonite parents who had been fined for non-compliance with Wisconsin’s compulsory education laws.

That set a legal precedent.

Aside from the Jewish concerns, leaders at Christian schools and homeschool families are worried about this intrusive new policy.  Yet the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), affiliated with the ACLU, sent a letter complaining that the regulations do not go far enough. 

Parents have the God-given right to teach their children. Humanist educators should not have the right to dictate to private religious schools or to homeschooling families that they erase religious education, be it Christian or Jewish.