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News To preserve life, most Orthodox Jews submit, and sacrifice religious life
Hana Cohen’s apartment in Borough Park has a view onto the heavily Orthodox neighborhood’s 12th Avenue thoroughfare. There is a yeshiva, a daycare, a small synagogue, a restaurant. Tuesday, it was business as usual, with class in session and people shopping. Wednesday was different. “Usually there’s kids playing by the street, there’s mothers on the…
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Fast Forward Here’s what to read to understand why babies got herpes from circumcisions.
“Metzitzah b’peh” is a circumcision rite in which the circumciser, or mohel, cleans the wound where the infant’s foreskin was removed by sucking it with his mouth. The practice is conducted mainly in the Haredi Jewish community, and periodically causes infants to contract a form of herpes that is found in adult saliva. In New…
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Fast Forward Of 28 NYC Yeshivas, Two Meet And Nine Approaching Secular Education Standards
More than half of the yeshivas investigated by the New York City Department of Education over the past two years are not providing the required amount of secular education to students, according to a Department of Education letter released today. The Department visited 28 schools and wrote that of that number, 11 are providing the…
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Fast Forward ‘Political Horse-Trading’ By Mayor’s Office Delayed Yeshiva Report: Investigation
Political considerations prompted city hall officials and state legislators in New York to intentionally delayed the release of a report about the city’s inspections of yeshivas, according to an investigation released today. “Political horse-trading unquestionably occurred,” said Margaret Garnett, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation and Anastasia Coleman, the Special Commissioner of…
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News Group Fighting Secular Education At Yeshivas Deploys Misinformation, Holocaust Imagery
Read this article in Yiddish here. Imagine a world where “evil informants” are “sharpening their teeth,” where they fight to take children and “drag them into the abyss.” Holy books are engulfed in flames. Scary men in suits burst into classrooms unannounced and steal toys. Children are taught profanity for hours each day. Large metal…
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Opinion Hasidic Schools Have No Intention Of Providing An Adequate Education
In his speeches, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, the grand rebbe of one of the largest Hasidic factions in New York State, has openly and repeatedly acknowledged the lack of secular education in Hasidic Yeshivas. In a 2018 speech he said, “We all know the truth, that in our primary Torah schools for boys, they studied at…
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Opinion The Truth About Secular Studies In Haredi Schools
The question of whether ultra-Orthodox children are getting enough secular education is wracking New York. The New York State Education Department will decide later this month about whether to start enforcing regulations in ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) schools, regulations proposed in a prolonged public campaign by activist groups such as the Young Advocates for Fair Education….
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Waitresses Flash Bras To Scare Off Ultra-Orthodox Protesters
The wait staff at a Jerusalem cafe lifted their shirts to scare away a group of ultra-Orthodox men after dealing with weeks of protests, The Washington Post reported. Bastet, a vegan and LGBT-friendly cafe, is open on Saturdays during the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest. Each week, a group of ultra-Orthodox men walk by,…
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