by Marvin Schick Published in Tablet Magazine “Next month, the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School in New York will begin its 121st year educating Jewish children. It will also be my 46th year serving as its president. When I accepted the position, I understood that I would confront some of the same challenges that my predecessors …
by Yossi Gestetner Published July 25, 2019 on the OJPAC (Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council) website This article addresses the claims that Hassidic yeshivos are generally non-compliant with State education standards, and that many yeshivos are not adequately preparing their male students for the workforce. A factual examination of the yeshiva curriculum and what it …
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Senator Simcha Felder and Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel meet the long shadow of Joseph Hodges Choate by Menachem Wecker Published in the Fall 2019 issue of Education Next ” It’s a good story, of interest well beyond the Jewish community. Jewish schools educated more than 151,000 students in New York State in 2013, the last …
by Rabbi Yisroel Reisman Published in the Jewish Press on July 25, 2019 For the last 11 months, I have been involved in the struggle to protect yeshiva education from overreach by New York State’s Department of Education (SED). Recently, I have been imploring people to voice their opposition to the state’s new proposed educational …
You may have heard that the New York State Education Department recently published proposed Regulations about “substantial equivalency of instruction” required for students attending nonpublic schools. This can have severe ramifications for yeshivos and day schools across the board in NYS, so we wanted to provide some answers to common questions we are receiving about …
“The professor opines on a 2017 YAFFED report entitled NON-EQUIVALENT: THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN NEW YORK CITY’S HASIDIC YESHIVAS. … The report, he says, ‘suffers from several fatal methodological infirmities, devotes a majority of its analysis to topics that bear no relation to the issue of whether yeshivos comply with the relevant academic standards, and …
by Esther Reisman Dr. Adina Schick – The Brains Behind The Battle Week by week, line by line, topic by topic, a young woman is painstakingly constructing a map. The terrain of this map is not geographical. Its mountains and valleys are the practical and conceptual underpinnings of our world… Read More.
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“Pragmatically speaking, which best prepares students for future success—a secular school program, or a yeshiva program? Even given the schools’ acknowledged limits in secular instruction, I’d be hard pressed to pick the secular track.” Read More
ALBANY – The New York State Education Department on Wednesday updated its guidelines on nonpublic schools, which had been widely condemned when released a month ago, halving the mandate for more than seven hours of daily secular studies but not addressing the main point of concern. Read More
