Recorded at the Nyack Library on May 29, 2024, “Yeshiva Stories” is a live storytelling event hosted by YAFFED, featuring yeshiva grads sharing their educational experiences. Click here to share your own story with us or visit https://yeshivastudents.com/
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Yossi’s struggle to reconcile not being taught basic math, while being raised by a father who was a successful doctor.
Yeshiva Stories: Yossi: A Doctor’s Son Denied A Basic Education Read More »
From the Chabad yeshiva system to neuroscientist, and the difficulties that had to be overcome to achieve that goal.
Yeshiva Stories: Lazer, From Educational Neglect To Neuroscientist Read More »
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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