October 2022

Yaffed Celebrates Two Huge Wins

On Wednesday evening, September 20th, 2022, a crowd of Yaffed staff, Board members, and friends gathered to celebrate two mega wins: the recent front page New York Timespiece that highlighted what Yaffed has long been advocating, and the vote by the NYSED Board of Regents that finally passed substantial equivalency regulations.  Incoming Executive Director Beatrice […]

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State Agency Finds NYC Hasidic Yeshiva Is Failing To Provide its Students with “Substantially Equivalent” Secular Education

PRESS RELEASE State Agency Finds NYC Hasidic Yeshiva Is Failing To Provide its Students with “Substantially Equivalent” Secular Education, Breaking Century-Old Education Law. Names Numerous Infractions. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Shira Dicker: s.dicker@yalfed.org+1.917.403.3989 (via WhatsApp until 10/14) October 13, 2022 (New York, NY) — In the middle of the Jewish festival of Sukkot, Yaffed —a non-profit

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