The opinion that the continuity of Jewish life depends on the establishment of Talmudic Academies, Yeshivas, was expressed in a manifesto issued to Orthodox congregations by the Union of Orthodox ...
NEW YORK – A group claiming some Orthodox Jewish yeshivas don't teach enough reading, writing and arithmetic sued New York state on Monday to force change. Young Advocates for Fair Education sued in ...
It is a shanda that it took eight years, under two separate mayors, for the New York City Department of Education to conclude an investigation into a formal complaint that some ultra-Orthodox Jewish ...
As the years-long investigation into the city’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish yeshivas drags on, the New York State Education Department just released new guidelines that compel these schools to improve the ...
The number of city kids attending Jewish yeshivas has skyrocketed over the last two decades while Catholic school enrollment has plunged, according to a new report. During the 2000-2001 school year, ...
Yeshivas in Crown Heights, mostly affiliated with the Chabad chasidic movement, are requiring parents to sign a waiver allowing their children to be tested for Covid-19. Angering some parents, a joint ...
(JTA) — Programs of Jewish study that break with the gender-segregated traditions of the Orthodox yeshiva are coming to Chicago and Washington. Hadar, the New York-based egalitarian yeshiva, announced ...
HILLBURN − Viola Elementary School is slated to be shuttered next academic year, a move to consolidate five current elementary schools into four as the public-school census continues to dwindle, even ...
BOROUGHWIDE — A TUG OF WAR BETWEEN FOUR BROOKLYN YESHIVAS and the New York State Department of Education has led to a civil rights complaint for alleged discriminatory education review, according to a ...
Private schools in New York state — in particular those operated by various branches of Hasidic Judaism — will have to offer “substantially equivalent instruction” to that found in public schools, ...
Rabbi Avi Greenstein, spokesperson for PEARLS, outside City Hall for a press conference following the release of a report on yeshiva education by NYSDOE. For the past few years, advocates of yeshiva ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A group claiming some Orthodox Jewish yeshivas don’t teach enough reading, writing and arithmetic sued New York state on Monday to force change. Young Advocates for Fair Education sued ...