State Religious Education-Religion vs. State

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INTRODUCTION

State religious schools in Israel are supposed to be faithful to the general-secular values of the state, on the one hand, and to promote a religious way of life, on the other.1 One might say, therefore, that this requirement of dual loyalty reflects, on a smaller scale, the existing conflict of religion vs. state in Israel. Various studies made of the State Religious Education (hereafter: SRE) system have examined the religious, pedagogic, social, and psychological aspects of the question.2 Very little attention, however, has been devoted to the legal aspects of state religious education, with the exception of David Taub's articles, which studied the legal and …