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NYC Council eyes doubling security funding to protect🅘 ಌmore religous schools
The current law only pays for such security measures for non-public schoo🥃ls with more than 300 students, but a bill sponsored by Democratic Brooklyn Councilman Justin Brannan would expand the coverage...
High school counselor at LA yeshiva accused oꦗf sex abuse of student
“Rather than🎶 advisin🎀g them, she was abusing them," the LAPD said while appealing for other victims to come forward.
Torah scroll worth ღ$50K reunited with owner after crook who stole it from NYC yeshiva is busted: DA
Saul Colon, 37, was indicted for snatching a safe that contained the scroll in𒁏 an early-morning raid at Siach Yitzchok, a Jewish school located on Beach 9th St༺reet near Caffrey...
Every graduate of elite NYC Jewish high school avoids Columbia for first time in decades — ꦰwith antisemitism a factor
Ramaz indicated that anti-Israel protests and hostility toward Jewish stud💞ents at Columbia during the previous semester had a factor in its graduates not attending Columbia College.
Unhinged driver attempts to mow down Jewish men outside a 🍨yeshiva 💦
A maniac tried to mow down a group of Jewish students outside a Brooklyn school Wednesday while screaming, “I’m gonna kill all the Jews” in a shocking a🙈ntisemitic attack. The...
NY lawmakers want $90M in security funds to protect religious schools as hate crimes r🧜ise amid Gaza war
Lawmakers are proposing to double security funding to religious schools in the state budget fr𒁃⛦om $45 million to $90 million to combat hate crimes amid the Israel-Hamas war.
NY di🌞scriminates against Jewish students by not allowing instruction in Hebrew, yeshiva advocate claims
A leading advocate for yeshivas accuses New York State eꦑducation officials of discriminating against Jewish students by restricting their ability to be instructed in the Hebrew language.
Nearly 20 NYC yeshivas failed to provide education requirem💙ents of English, math: DOE probe
The report determined that 18 of the academics failed to provide stu𓆏dents with adequate education in secular studies like English, math and science.
ꦯ Twin bombings at Jerusalem bus stops kill teen, injure 26
Two blasts went off 30 minutes apart✱ at two bus stops in J🌊erusalem during the morning rush hour, killing 16-year-old yeshiva student Aryeh Shechopek and injuring more than two dozen...
Where Zeldಌin is targeting in NYC to pull off stunning upset against Hochul in gov race
▨ A Republican needs to break a minimum of 30% of the vote in the Big Apple to have a shot at winning statewide, Zeldin said, noting that some polls have...
Brooklyn yeshiva found to be breaking NY law by not prov♚iding secular educati🍷on
State officials found that Yeshiva Mesivta Arugath Habosem in Williamsburg, Brooklyn broke the law by failin🍨g to provide a basic secular education to students.
Yeshiva University su꧟spends campus c✤lubs after Supreme Court denies bid to block LGBTQ+ group
"The Pride Alliance see๊ks a safe space on campus, nothing more. By shutting down all club activities, the YU administration attempts to divide the🉐 student body," said plaintiff Tai Miller.
Letteಞrs to the✨ Editor — Sept. 16, 2022
The Issue: New guidelines requiring stronger oversight of curriculum in religious and private s🏅chools. I would like to express my great dissatisfaction and disappointment at the photo attached to the...
NY Board of Regents🐎 attack educational standard💟s again
As we've noted before, the Regents turned against standards after Carl Heastie𒀰 became the Assembly speaker and appointed a board majority.
NY state education board approves new nonpublﷺic schoo൲l oversight regs
The regulations require that private schools — including some yeshivas criticized for not 🔯offering basic instruction — provide an equival🥂ent education to what’s offered at public schools.
New oversight rules for NY private schools, yeshivas expected to be ap🌳proved
The rules have faced fierce backlash from those serving the state's Hasidic Jewish community, 𒐪who argue it's an infringement on their right to a religious education. 🃏
Cross your fingers the Regents can get yeshivas on board 𒈔 💃
A New York Times ex🃏posé sho🦩ws at least one yeshiva with 100% failure rates on 2019 state reading and math exams.
Letters to the Editor ꦛ— Sept. 9, 2ꦆ022
New 𒆙York Post readers sounꦏd off about Piers Morgan’s column on Kim Kardashian’s revealing flag-themed photo shoot and Michael Steinhardt’s on the importance of education standards in yeshivas.
🃏 The fate of a generation of Jewish children is at stake in yesh꧟iva debate
ꦺ Upwards of 65,000 Hasidic children statewide do not receive the education t🦹hey deserve.
ܫ Advocates for secular e🅺d in Yeshivas file another complaint against DOE
🎃 Advocates for improving secular education in yeshivas are demanding New York City release findings from its investigation into Hasidic schools.