Sentences with phrase «about yeshivas»

Speaking at a Thursday afternoon press conference in Manhattan, de Blasio said he was hopeful about speed cameras and wasn't aware of the latest back - and - forth about yeshivas.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Rosenberg pulled down 27 % of the vote on a $ 1000 campaign budget (he was in my sons yeshiva this past sunday collecting some last little bit for his campaign, he raised about $ 95), running a campaign that was primarily a school project.

«It's about time that the communities wake up to understand that we are not trying to destroy Catholic schools or yeshivas,» said Mark Appel, founder of Voice of Justice, an advocacy group.

Roughly 9,000 students, the vast majority of them black or Latino, attend public schools in the district, while about 24,000 students who live there attend yeshivas.

(He has agreed to bankroll the grandkids» education as long as they're sent to yeshiva, a plot detail that occasions some rather splendid slapstick ancient - rabbi humor, including a gag about «the YouTubes.»)

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.

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.

Part 2: New NYC schools chancellor on investigation into yeshivas Part 3: New NYC schools chancellor talks about school discipline, San Francisco lawsuit