Two students at a Connecticut yeshiva were killed and two others injured when their van crashed and rolled down an embankment, school officials and police said. Eli Shonbron, 16, and Dani King, 15, both of Brooklyn, died in the crash on Interstate 84 near the New York-Connecticut border just after midnight, state police said. “Dani…
10,000 Yeshiva students have been playing hooky and bilking Israel’s Ministry of Education of NIS 4.5 million, according to a recent audit. The Ministry of Education shared with the Israeli business publication Globes that these students, who have not actually been showing up to classes, were receiving NIS 450 each per month in stipends. The…
Crossposted from Haaretz While students in Great Britain set fire to London to protest tuition hikes, in Israel a different kind of student protest is surfacing. No, it’s not against the scandalous “avrekhim law,” which differentiates between students in post high school educational institutions and yeshiva students. The cause that has inspired some students to…
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