NY state budget weakens yeshiva oversight in blow to secular education advocates
The outcome represents a dramatic victory for the state’s Hasidic leaders, who oppose government intervention in yeshiva education
The outcome represents a dramatic victory for the state’s Hasidic leaders, who oppose government intervention in yeshiva education
The Williamsburg yeshivas were penalized after ignoring requests from the state education department to enter a remediation process
To get a secular education, my grandmother had to tutor me in basic English and math
While we continue to find language in The Times' investigation problematic, we did not attempt to stop the story
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The widely read work may undermine Hasidic leaders — and put the translator at risk
Virtually every Hasidic child is taught that outsiders and even non-Orthodox Jews are to be feared, writes one parent of ultra-Orthodox children.
Teaching Arthur Miller and Sherman Alexie to a group of yeshiva bokherim made for more than a few challenges
אין דער מעשׂה רעכנט ער אויס אַ צאָל וועגעטאַרישע מאכלים, וואָס ייִדן אין מיזרח־אייראָפּע האָבן אַ מאָל געגעסן.
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