"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, 1994; page 468).
Again, we note the eery resemblance of the Daat Torah branch of ultra-Orthodoxy to totalitarian values. Ultra-Orthodoxy is a totalitarian-style, modern day, political eruption on the skin of what otherwise has been a sublime cultivation of civil society values among the Jewish people.
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