YAFFED Executive Director Beatrice Weber, Human Rights Attorney Julie F. Kay, and NYC Comptroller Brad Lander discuss education and family justice in Hasidic and Haredi communities. Moderated by Former Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger. Recorded March 21, 2023, at The 92nd Street Y, New York
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On the holiday of Shavuot, which starts tonight on the evening of May 25, Jewish people all over the world celebrate the acceptance of the Torah and its commandments. Among the many teachings within the Torah, there exists a significant Mitzvah (commandment) that is essential to ensuring the success of future generations: the commandment to
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Last week, at a fundraiser for the TeachNYS Coalition, a project of the Orthodox Union, New York City Mayor Eric Adams offered praise of yeshiva education system telling the assembled crowd: “We need to be duplicating what you are achieving”. In making this comment, the Mayor once again reduced the horrific issue of educational neglect
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Last week, the New York State budget was voted through by legislators and signed into effect by Governor Kathy Hochul, after negotiations pushed its completion a month past its April 1 due date.
Yossi’s struggle to reconcile not being taught basic math, while being raised by a father who was a successful doctor.
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Meet Shaindy Weichman, a mother whose son attends a Hasidic Yeshiva in New York. Like the other 65,000 boys attending such Yeshivas in this state, he’s a victim of educational neglect by the schools that are legally obligated to provide him with a basic secular education. But the reality that Shaindy is forced to contend
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Yaffed has been fighting to end the educational neglect in Hasidic yeshivas for almost a decade. Since May of 2020, Vanessa Meghnagi has played a crucial role in that fight. Her position as the Director of Operations and Planning makes her responsible for both the backend work and future planning of Yaffed’s endeavors. She recently
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In New York alone, tens of thousands of young Haredi men are poised to finish high school without being able to communicate in English, do basic math, or have even a minimal grasp of American History. Without adequate secular education, more than half of Haredi Jews end up poor or near poor. Unfortunately, this educational
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