Yeshiva Stories: Yossi: A Doctor’s Son Denied A Basic Education
Yossi’s struggle to reconcile not being taught basic math, while being raised by a father who was a successful doctor.
Yossi’s struggle to reconcile not being taught basic math, while being raised by a father who was a successful doctor.
From the Chabad yeshiva system to neuroscientist, and the difficulties that had to be overcome to achieve that goal.
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 …