Beer and Bible

A WINNING COMBINATION:

Beer and Bible promote Israel’s cultural future

By JONAH MANDEL (Jerusalem Post)
08/02/2010 01:02

Group aims to inspire potential teachers.

There is nothing quite like a chilly pint of bitter in a welcoming and air-conditioned bar after a ridiculously hot day.

But the fine brew served on Sunday evening in Herzliya’s Theodor bar was primarily an alluring setting for the real delicacy put forth before nearly 40 secular men and women, the “living water” of the Bible.

As the axiom goes, there is no such thing as a free beer, happy hours notwithstanding. In this case, it was the initiative of the non-profit group Israeli Education, which for the third time against such a backdrop set out to expose the attendees to what the group does in instilling the Bible in public schools. It does this with the underlying aspiration to draw some of the young academics sipping drinks to become Bible teachers themselves, in a Kibbutz Seminar program currently in the works.

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For a similar, but apparently unrelated initiative (which lacks beer), see here.