Urgent: NYC Mayor’s Proposed Budget to Cut Critical Oversight Capacity
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BREAKING: NYC Ordered to Report the Results of Its Investigation Into Haredi Schools
After 7 years, The New York State Education Department has set a deadline for the city to complete investigations into Haredi yeshivas within six months.
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Yaffed Celebrates Two Huge Wins
On Wednesday evening, September 20th, 2022, a crowd of Yaffed staff, Board members, and friends gathered to celebrate two mega wins: the recent front page New York Timespiece that highlighted what Yaffed has long been advocating, and the vote by the NYSED Board of Regents that finally passed substantial equivalency regulations. Incoming Executive Director Beatrice
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State Agency Finds NYC Hasidic Yeshiva Is Failing To Provide its Students with “Substantially Equivalent” Secular Education
PRESS RELEASE State Agency Finds NYC Hasidic Yeshiva Is Failing To Provide its Students with “Substantially Equivalent” Secular Education, Breaking Century-Old Education Law. Names Numerous Infractions. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Shira Dicker: s.dicker@yalfed.org+1.917.403.3989 (via WhatsApp until 10/14) October 13, 2022 (New York, NY) — In the middle of the Jewish festival of Sukkot, Yaffed —a non-profit
Beatrice Weber, Activist and Writer, to Lead Yaffed
Ms. Weber Succeeds Founding Director Naftuli Moster FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: Shira Dickers.dicker@yaffed.org/ 917.403.3989 September 20, 2022 (New York, NY) – The Board of Directors of Yaffed is pleased to announce the appointment of Beatrice Weber as our incoming executive director, effective October 3rd. Ms. Weber succeeds Yaffed’s founder Naftuli Moster who served in this role
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Yaffed’s Founding Executive Director, Naftuli Moster, to Step Down in Fall
After over 10 years leading Yaffed, Naftuli Moster, its founder and executive director, has informed the Board he intends to step down at the end of September 2022. The Board is sad to bid farewell to Mr. Moster and supports his decision. The Board is committed to continuing Yaffed’s mission until such time as secular education is routinely offered within all Hasidic and Haredi schools.
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Yaffed Public Comment on Substantial Equivalency
Below is our official response:
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150+ Rabbis and Jewish Leaders Speak Out On Education in Haredi Yeshivas
We are right now in a critical period as the longstanding fight to ensure educational equality in non-public schools, including Haredi Yeshivas, hits a defining moment. The New York State Education Department (NYSED) recently released new regulations that aim to enforce the Substantial Equivalency education law. The public comment period, a window of time designated
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Shaindy’s Story
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
A First: New York State Sets Aside $$ to Enforce Standards in Non-Public Schools (Including Yeshivas)
There are many, many hurdles and obstacles in the way of ensuring that every child attending a Yeshiva in New York State gets the education he or she deserves. The obvious one is the lack of political will. Another one is the present lack of clarity from the state regarding what constitutes “substantial equivalency” and