Sentences with phrase «for yeshiva»

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

The Regents on Monday also heard a report from Dennis M. Walcott, the former New York City schools chancellor, whom the state appointed in August to lead monitors overseeing the East Ramapo school district in Rockland County, which has been accused of diverting money from its public schools to provide services for yeshiva students.

ALBANY — Language tucked into the tentative state budget could mean a more convenient bus ride home for yeshiva students, but leave taxpayers with a hefty bill.

Alcantara, who represents Washington Heights, first took aim at Felder during an April 5 news conference with advocates pushing for yeshiva reforms.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Felder previously said that he would align with the party that focused on his legislative priorities, including securing funding for yeshivas and placing armed guards in New York City schools.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie blamed Sen. Simcha Felder on Friday for the impasse in the state budget negotiations, telling reporters his conference would not move forward on the Brooklyn lawmaker's push to change oversight measures for Yeshivas.

- Curriculum oversight issues for Yeshivas continues to be pursued by Sen. Simcha Felder, a key lawmaker for Senate Republicans.

But his push to change curriculum oversight regulations for yeshivas and other religious schools — while seemingly esoteric — largely held up the finalization of a deal on Friday, the drop - dead day to get the budget done before a holiday week.

The agreement also resolves a last - minute issue that arose when Sen. Simcha Felder sought further autonomy for curriculum standards for yeshivas from the State Education Department.

Nevertheless, a range of issues remain outstanding, including support for Yeshivas as backed by Sen. Simcha Felder.

Not exact matches

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!).

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The day turned sour late Friday morning, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie lashed out at Senate Republicans for what he called their holding up a final deal in order to push an item by Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who has an alliance with Senate Republicans, to relax certain education curriculum requirements by yeshivas.

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.

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.

He had been seeking relief for private yeshivas from curriculum standards, and was refusing to support various priorities sought by New York City, including design - build authority for the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and increasing the number of speed cameras in school zones.

Nolan said she was «very concerned» by the idea of a moratorium, and noted that she was open — and has previously supported — other items that have been directed to yeshivas in the past, including more funds for student busing.

And so, nothing is improving for the students at those yeshivas.

«If anything, we should be fighting in the other direction — for more oversight given that these yeshivas are getting millions of dollars of public money,» Moster said.

He was criticized for holding up agreement on the $ 168 billion budget last month in a dispute over state regulation of yeshivas.

The sign was paid for by the Young Advocates for Fair Education, which has pushed city education officials to investigate yeshivas for allegedly failing to educate their students in nonsecular subjects like science, math and English.

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.

Manhattan state Sen. Marisol Alcantara got the message loud and clear after she blasted Felder last month for pushing to exclude yeshivas from academic standards required of other schools.

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.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

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 senator, Simcha Felder, had asked for leeway in state oversight of yeshivas.

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.

It was a particularly strong issue in the East Ramapo Central School District, where the school board has faced criticism for budgetary cutbacks, allegations of improper placement of special education students, and providing school materials to private yeshivas, among other complaints.

The Republican - led state Senate, for its part, maintained the holdup was not over state Sen. Simcha Felder — a Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans — or yeshivas as the governor and the Democratic - led state Assembly said but over the Assembly's push for a pay raise.

This is how state Sen. Simcha Felder justified his call for the city to pay for security at yeshivas:

State Sen. Martin Golden (R - Brooklyn) defended the measure, saying it's intended to ensure safe transportation for all students — not just those in yeshivas.

Thirty schools took advantage — 29 yeshivas and one charter school — for a total cost increase that was capped at $ 3 million.

Life takes a nasty swerve when his dad (Mandy Patinkin) announces he can no longer pay for the kids» yeshiva fees because he's dying of cancer and needs the money for an experimental New Age treatment.