Sentences with phrase «of yeshiva»

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

Richardson said she was tired and sleep - deprived because Felder briefly held up passage of the state budget last week in a spat over the regulation of yeshivas.

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

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

When state auditors tried to visit some of these yeshivas that were receiving money for special education students and, therefore, obliged to adhere to the state course content standards, they were turned away.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.»

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.

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.

Yesterday, new Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan released a list of his end - of - session priorities, while Gov. Andrew Cuomo did a whirlwind tour of four Brooklyn churches and a yeshiva to tout his latest version of the Education Investment Tax Credit, now known (with some additions and changes) as the Parental Choice in Education Act.

A group representing parents and former students at ultra-Orthodox yeshivas accused the de Blasio administration of dragging its feet in investigating their schools, out of fear of alienating a constituency that the mayor has assiduously courted.

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.

Of that, 24,000 attend private 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.

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.

Activists have long complained that some ultra-Orthodox yeshivas, a small fraction of the larger yeshiva community, are barely teaching English in their schools and are producing graduates who are not ready to enter the workforce.

While they worked to resolve the impasse over the yeshiva issue, Cuomo and legislative leaders appeared to reach agreements on most other issues, including the crucial issue of education spending.

Naftuli Moster, executive director of Yaffed, which has pushed the New York City Department of Education to investigate yeshivas, said Felder's push was «outrageous.»

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.

«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.

It's the latest iteration of a push by Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who provides the chamber's ruling Republicans with a crucial 32nd vote, to prevent investigations into yeshivas serving Orthodox Jews, mostly in Brooklyn.

-- The visits come as the New York City Department of Education is investigating whether 39 ultra-orthodox all - boys yeshivas in Brooklyn failed to provide their students with adequate levels of non-secular education.

In 2015, the New York City Department of Education said it would investigate allegations that 39 Orthodox yeshivas failed to meet state law requiring them to provide an education equivalent to their public school counterparts.

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.