The timely and important documentary an Unorthodox Education exposes a shocking truth largely unknown to the general public — tens of thousands of children currently attend ultra-Orthodox schools in New York that refuse to provide students with the legally-mandated general education they need to lead self-sufficient adult lives.
Please join a panel discussion to unpack the lengthy investigative piece in the New York Times on the Hasidic Yeshiva system and its failure to comply with basic educational standards. *Recording now available here. Register here.
The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and the Hunter College Jewish Studies Center invite you to a newsworthy discussion on the timely topic of secular education standards in New York State’s Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas A New Public Program Live and Online Featuring: Naftuli Moster, Schneur Zalman Newfield, Beatrice Weber, and Dr. Leah Garrett
In New York, upwards of 50,000 Haredi children are currently facing educational neglect at the hands of their community leaders, and many parents who leave the community are deprived of their rights to relationships with their children. Join us for a timely conversation about the parameters of education and family justice in the Haredi world […]
Join YAFFED on July 11, 2023 at City Lore (56 East 1st Street) from 7 - 9 pm for our first-ever live storytelling event - "Yeshiva Stories" - a night full of moving, fun, compelling stories centered around the theme of yeshiva education. Our host & MC for the evening is writer and comedian Eitan Levine. […]
YAFFED will be holding a press conference on Wednesday, July 12 at 11:30 am, at Tweed Courthouse (52 Chambers Street), in response to the recently completed 8-year investigation by the NYC Department of Education into the lack of secular education at 28 yeshivas named in our 2015 complaint. After finally completing the investigation set in […]
Join YAFFED for a special private event on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 7 pm, at the Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Ave) where we will be showing an exclusive early screening of Joe Kolman's work-in-progress film, "An Unorthodox Education" followed by a panel discussion and reception. Tickets are available here
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