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Mid Island Y-JCC Jewish Learning Series - Our Children, Our Responsibility: The Jewish Community’s Role in Hasidic Education
2024-10-29 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | NY
Our Children, Our Responsibility: The Jewish Community’s Role in Hasidic Education
Presented by Beatrice Weber, Yaffed Senior Advisor

Tuesday, October 29, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Mid-Island Y-JCC
45 Manetto Hill RoadPlainview, NY 11803

Yeshiva Stories: Live Storytelling at Nyack Library
2024-05-29 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Nyack Library, 59 S. Broadway, Nyack, NY, 10960, United States
Join YAFFED for a night of live storytelling from yeshiva grads on Wednesday, May 29 from 6-730pm at the Nyack Library!

The event is free with RSVP.

A select group of yeshiva grads will share stories of their educational experiences from various schools within the yeshiva system, offering a unique glimpse into the world of yeshiva education through the eyes of its graduates.
Come experience an insider’s perspective on the yeshiva system through stories that shed light on the the systemic challenges faced by yeshiva students in balancing the value of a sound, basic education alongside a religious education.
Light refreshments will be served.

"An Unorthodox Education" Screening + Panel Discussion
2023-09-26 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10023, United States
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

YAFFED Press Conference
2023-07-12 11:30 - 12:30 UTC | Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers Street, New York, NY, 10007, United States
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 motion by YAFFED’s July 2015 complaint, the NYC Department of Education determined that 18 of the 28 yeshivas they investigated did not provide a substantially equivalent secular education.

Of the 10 schools that did pass, half of them only did so because of their affiliation with a registered school, regardless of whether or not they provide any secular education. The fact that schools were given a stamp of approval by the City without being thoroughly investigated represents a severe lack of oversight.

Additionally, our concern is for students of the schools that the City conclusively determined aren’t providing an education – they cannot get back the time that they lost at the hands of yeshiva leaders.

Join us at Tweed Courthouse on Wednesday, July 12 at 11:30 am, as we lay out the next steps in our fight to protect the rights of all children to receive the education that they deserve.

Yeshiva Stories: A Night Of Storytelling At City Lore
2023-07-11 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | NY
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.

Buy Tickets Here

Jewish Education Justice: Why All New Yorkers Should Care
2023-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 92NY, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, 10128, United States
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 and how these intersect, as we examine our communal obligation to our neighbors and fellow Jewish people.
Buy tickets here: https://www.92ny.org/event/jewish-education-justice

The State of Hasidic Education: The Right to Learn, the Obligation to Teach
2022-11-01 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Roosevelt House, 47-49 East 65th Street, Between Park & Madison Avenues, New York, NY, United States
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

Unpacking the NY Times Investigation into Yeshivas
2022-09-13 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | NY
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.

An Unorthodox Education: Screening and Conversation with Budd Mishkin, Beatrice Weber and Naftuli Moster
2022-07-11 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | 92NY, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, 10128, United States
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.
The film includes testimony from former yeshiva students and parents alike who tell their stories, some for the very first time, and also reveals how political leaders in New York City deliberately delayed reform efforts in return for political favors from the ultra-Orthodox community. These heartbreaking accounts illuminate the consequences of being denied instruction in subjects such as English language, math, science and social studies. An Unorthodox Education also captures how the rampant ignorance of science had deadly and devastating effects within so many of the Hasidic and Haredi communities as COVID-19 safety protocols were ignored or vehemently opposed.
Following the screening, veteran broadcast journalist Budd Mishkin will moderate a discussion with Naftuli Moster, a former Hasidic yeshiva student and founder and executive director of Yaffed — a local non-profit which is leading the fight to ensure that all ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic children in America receive the basic education to which they are legally entitled — and Beatrice Weber, an outspoken advocate and mother of ten who filed a lawsuit against NYC’s Department of Education and her son’s Hasidic yeshiva.
