Sentences with phrase «jewish yeshivas»

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know of Lakewood's sordid history of shortchanging poor students of color trapped in dysfunctional schools run by a Board that privileges Orthodox children who attend private and unaccountable Jewish yeshivas.

The new BHA website will contain testimonies from former pupils at private Muslim schools, illegal Jewish Yeshivas, and fundamentalist Christian schools.

He said: «Let me be clear: there is nothing wrong with children learning about their faith, whether it's at madrasas, Sunday schools or Jewish yeshivas.

A politically charged battle over whether some Jewish yeshivas provide an adequate secular education heats up.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

East Ramapo schools have suffered deep cuts to programs and staffing from the school board, which is controlled by the area's Orthodox Jewish community whose members send their children to private yeshivas.

An Orthodox Jewish blog reports that Assemblyman Dov Hikind met with Gov. David Paterson this morning and was told there will be a post-Election Day special session and a TAP program for yeshivas that the governor vetoed last summer will be on the agenda.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

Orthodox families, however, send their children to yeshivas, or Jewish private schools.

She toured the Chasan Sofer yeshiva in Borough Park and apologized for joining the» anti-yeshiva protest,» the Jewish publication Hamodia reported.

Bailey also said she was visiting The Manhattan High School for Girls — the first Orthodox school she's visited as secretary — in response to an invitation she accepted in March from Agudath Israel of America, a Jewish - American organization that promotes yeshiva education.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out a federally funded program on Sept. 6, promising free meals for all NYC students, but Jewish advocates say 30,000 students in yeshivas aren't getting the free meals because none of the food is certified kosher.

The first mailer from Republican Chris McGrath's Senate campaign is aimed directly at the 9th district's Jewish voters, with a pledge to bolster yeshivas and religious schools.

Mr. Felder — an Orthodox Jew who represents a large Orthodox Jewish constituency in Brooklyn — has expressed support in the past for allowing yeshivas leeway in complying with state law, which requires that private schools must offer students instruction that is «at least substantially equivalent» to that offered in public schools.

The school board is predominately made up of Hasidic Jews who send their children to private Jewish schools, also known as yeshiva's.

After hours of negotiations that saw the New York State budget held up by a Brooklyn state senator seeking to exempt yeshivas (Orthodox Jewish schools) from state Department of Education requirements for non-religious instruction, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers finally passed the $ 168 billion budget for fiscal year 2019 on Friday night — just as the Passover and Easter holidays were kicking off.

Braff plays Aidan (a strange name choice, perhaps, considering the film's focus on his Jewish roots), an out - of - work actor whose wife, Sarah (Kate Hudson), is barely supporting the whole family with her dreary dead - end job, and whose children, Grace (Joey King) and Tucker (Pierce Gagnon), are about to be booted from their yeshiva for non-payment.

Daniel Balint (Ryan Gosling) is a yeshiva - educated young Jewish man in New York who rejects his heritage and chooses to become a neo-Nazi skinhead.

Born in Chicago, Illinois as the only son of Jewish immigrants, Dr. Lee Shulman fondly recalls his early years spent in a yeshiva high school and at his parent's delicatessen.

His father had had a tough time growing up: His mother died when he was 5, and he was sent away to a yeshiva in Poland, where he became a ward of the Jewish community.