Sentences with phrase «hesder yeshiva»

It would be convenient to blame these incidents on Islamists, but the perpetrators typically turn out to be students from ultraconservative yeshivas.

The men spend their lives studying the Torah at various Yeshivas and Temples.

This was a Hesder yeshiva, in which students combined Talmudic study with army service.

Over the next four decades, the two jointly built and sustained the most influential Hesder yeshiva.

I can judge your Jesus for what he was, and he may not have even existed, but worthless yeshiva turds are a dime a dozen in Jewish culture, so if he existed, he was likely one of them.

He was probably kicked out of yeshiva, couldn't get work due to his massive ignorance, just like yeshiva - scum in modern times who can't even do math, and found some crazies to follow him and give him money and food.

There're plenty of catholic schools, Yeshivas, etc in the greater NY area.

For the record; and I do realize this has nothing to do w / the article, I LOVE my Jewish food; and I have even been told by a male friend of mine who attended yeshiva and was raised in a kosher home, that I am more Jewish than his sister (I don't think it was said in a complimentary way; but I found it funny!).

The enthusiastic advocacy by the Lubavitch Hassidim of menorahs on public property and public funds for yeshivas has shattered the once monolithic «Jewish» position on church - state issues.

While it is fine, indeed healthy, for Judaic scholars to engage in a heated exchange about the best way to approach interfaith dialogue, nothing can justify Prof. Novak's truly repugnant accusation that, in not ascribing to Dabru Emet, Prof. Levenson is somehow guilty of fostering «self - hatred» among Christians, or his insulting suggestion that Levenson would be better off teaching in an Orthodox yeshiva than at Harvard.

This time it is Rabbi Mordechai Elon, one of the foremost rabbinic leaders of the Israeli Orthodox movement and former rosh yeshiva at the flagship Yeshivat HaRav, where last year a Palestinian mounted an assault which left several students dead.

(This in contrast to Jews living within the encapsulated yeshiva world of Monsey, New York, the Borough Park neighborhood in Brooklyn, and Lakewood, New Jersey.)

(Of the 20 or so kids who graduate every year, all but two or three go to Israel and study in a yeshiva for at least a year before starting college in the U.S.) On Tuesday morning the rabbis tell Katz they want the home game against Capital Christian, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. that day, to be moved up an hour, before school lets out, to keep the crowds smaller.

The endorsement announced was made in the heavily Jewish Five Towns community, which comes as McGrath has released mailers highlighting his support for Yeshivas and day schools.

(In Felder's case, he's concerned about the Yeshivas that serve the large Orthodox community in his district).

The 9th Senate district in Nassau County includes the predominantly Jewish Five Towns community and Republicans have sought to bolster support among those voters, with McGrath pledging to aid Yeshivas and day schools if elected.

Also at 1 p.m., members of Yaffed, former yeshiva students and elected officials hold a press conference in fight to protect the rights of Orthodox children, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

As for the deal for loosening state Education Department regulations for yeshivas (Jewish religious schools) that he got by holding up the state budget agreement last week, Felder said he is semi-satisfied.

Those same Orthodox board members tend to send their children to private schools and Yeshivas.

There's a difference of opinion on what the budget measure intended to placate Sen. Simcha Felder regarding the oversight of yeshivas actually will do.

Senator Simcha Felder wanted religious yeshiva schools to be exempt from some curriculum rules imposed by the state education department.

Even if it passes, though, exempting yeshivas from educational guidelines could spark a legal challenge, noted Michael Rebell, a Columbia University professor and lawyer who has pursued school funding - equity cases.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind was the first elected official to realize how important TAP is to needy yeshiva gedola students.

According to Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz, Agudath Israel of America vice president for community services, who worked assiduously to promote the idea that New York should follow the federal government's lead in this area, the new policy will bring many millions of dollars to yeshivos gedolos and seminaries, and represents the most helpful new benefit program the yeshiva community has seen in years.

The news came as a huge shock to yeshiva leaders who only last week were celebrating TAP's passage, «It's really sad that the Governor, who introduced this proposal for our yeshivas when he was running for re-election, was the one who ended up killing it after he decided not to run anymore,» said one yeshiva administrator who suspects that politics may have been to blame.

Governor David Paterson first included the TAP yeshiva - eligibility in his proposed January budget, encouraged to do so by a number of community askonim working closely with Assemblyman Hikind.

Fights over a new fee on opioid sales, school safety issues, education requirements for yeshivas and the amount of taxes that should be extracted from a major health insurance sale remained some of the sticking points late Thursday in efforts to finalize a $ 168 billion 2018 - 19 state budget.

Rabbi Weinberger, who visited Albany numerous times as part of delegations of askonim, praised Speaker Silver for putting the TAP yeshiva - inclusion into the Assembly version of the budget and thanked him for his leadership in not only this matter but many others of importance to the Orthodox Jewish community.

In a fight between Bill de Blasio's Department of Education and the yeshivas that teach the children of Haredi or Ultra-Orthodox Jews, it might seem like the Department of Education is the 800 - pound - giant.

Sen. Simcha Felder wanted religious yeshiva schools to be exempt from some curriculum rules imposed by the state education department.

Even worse, the much celebrated TAP program for Yeshivas, that was slated to bring in millions of dollars, was vetoed as well.

Some 27,000 of the district's students attend private schools, mainly yeshivas.

Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder was holding out for an exemption or moratorium from from upcoming state guidelines that will ensure subjects like math and science are taught in Yeshivas in a way that is «substantially equivalent» to the public schools.

Assembly opposition may have been a reason that a pay raise commission was floated as a potential trade for a yeshiva deal.

The prospect of another attempt at raising their pay may have been seen as a way to get Assembly members to relent on the yeshiva issue.

after reading this fine article from yeshiva world, i have come to the conclusion, that when it comes to money everything is kosher.

The battle over yeshivas appeared to be caught in political tug of war between the GOP - controlled Senate and Democratic - led Assembly.

It was announced on Wednesday that Felder secured some $ 200,000 in discretionary funds for «education access» programs for Agudath Israel, the lobbying force that helped fight state efforts to impose instructional standards on yeshivas... What secular education young boys receive typically ends at the equivalent of about seventh grade, with only minimal English and reading studied after that.

In April, state Senator Simcha Felder (D — Brooklyn) refused to sign off on the state budget unless yeshivas, which accept millions of dollars in government funding, were given more autonomy over curricula.

Of these, some 24,000 attend private schools, mainly yeshivas.

And though they stopped the passage of the Cuomo - backed Education Investment Tax Credit, which would have subsidized private education, they had to accept $ 64.6 million being given to parochial schools and yeshivas.

Democrats started saying on Thursday that Felder's demand for less stringent standards for yeshivas was holding up the process

It's a district where the majority of children attend private Yeshivas.

A letter from the group will be going to every legislator in Albany — but the only man who matters is state Sen. Simcha Felder, who just happens to represent the students at Hecht's yeshiva.

«The intent was not to go ahead and let yeshivas off the hook,» Felder told The New York Times on Friday, but rather to «consider the number of hours of education a child is getting of any sort.»

Others, like yeshivas and private schools, have also opposed Markey's bill.

He wants religious yeshiva schools to be exempt from state curriculum rules.

Advocates claim some yeshivas teach little English.

Some of the last issues to be decided had to do with education, including a push by state Sen. Simcha Felder — a Democrat from Brooklyn who conferences with Republicans to give them a critical 32nd vote — to protect ultra-Orthodox yeshivas from official reviews that might find they do not provide substantially equivalent instruction to public schools.

They discuss how that provision has faced loud protests from the Catholic Church, and quieter protests from groups like the Boy Scouts and various yeshivas.