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Yeshiva Stories: Yossi: A Doctor’s Son Denied A Basic Education

By yaffed

Yossi’s struggle to reconcile not being taught basic math, while being raised by a father who was a successful doctor.

Yeshiva Stories: Lazer, From Educational Neglect To Neuroscientist

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From the Chabad yeshiva system to neuroscientist, and the difficulties that had to be overcome to achieve that goal.

Shaindy’s Story

By Shalom Shore

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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