Sentences with phrase «tap yeshiva»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 Tuition Assistance Program, known as TAP would provide much needed assistance to financially strapped parents struggling to meet their yeshiva tuition obligations.