Sentences with word «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.

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.

And let's not forget East Ramapo, where the elected school board has been accused of diverting resources to the 24,000 students in private Yeshivas at the expense of the 9,000 predominantly low - income students of color who remain in the district schools.

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.

Under it, he said, educational officials trying to evaluate standards at yeshivas would be asked to consider the number of hours spent studying all topics, including religious studies, in determining whether such an education was «substantially equivalent» to secular public schools.

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.

Rabbi David Zweibel, of the aforementioned Agudath Israel, said, «The majority of yeshiva graduates are happy with the education they receive.»

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

Well that might happen but Stewart - Cousins isn't the friendliest person out there either and she certainly doesn't care about yeshivas, unless she can extract increases in other welfare benefits from it.

Mr. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate and one of the «three men in a room» that control decision - making in Albany, received this high praise for adding yeshiva tuition tax credits into the state budget and his recent work to fund bus service to those same private religious schools.

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

Senator Simcha Felder wanted religious yeshiva schools to be exempt from some curriculum rules imposed by the state education department.

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.

Critics contend New York City is failing to follow through with a pledge to investigate Yeshivas for meeting basic education requirements and standards equivalent to public schools.

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.

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.

Even if it passes, though, exempting yeshivas from educational guidelines could spark a legal challenge, noted Michael Rebell, a Columbia University professor and lawyer who has pursued school funding - equity cases.

A small group of former yeshiva graduates have alleged that religious schools in Orthodox Jewish communities are failing to provide adequate education to students.

The men spend their lives studying the Torah at various Yeshivas and Temples.

Over the next four decades, the two jointly built and sustained the most influential Hesder yeshiva.

Others, like yeshivas and private schools, have also opposed Markey's bill.

(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.)

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.

Some 27,000 of the district's students attend private schools, mainly yeshivas.

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.

The battle over yeshivas appeared to be caught in political tug of war between the GOP - controlled Senate and Democratic - led Assembly.

«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.»

«The intent was not to go ahead and let yeshivas off the hook,» Mr. Felder said, but rather to «consider the number of hours of education a child is getting of any sort.»

The FBI yesterday swooped down on several vendors connected to an on - going fraud probe involving Yeshivas in Rockland County, serving numerous search warrants to obtain records on equipment purchases from religious schools, law enforcement sources said.

Black and Hispanic members argued the East Ramapo school board has mismanaged the district's finances to favor yeshiva students, robbing academic opportunities from the poor minority children who attend public schools.

Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.

Clinical Associates for Rehabilitation & Evaluations, Inc Brooklyn • NY 9/1999 — 6/2000 Psychologist for Group Home Performed psychological evaluations and provided individual counseling for elementary yeshiva students.

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.

It would be convenient to blame these incidents on Islamists, but the perpetrators typically turn out to be students from ultraconservative yeshivas.

Some of the most prestigious academies operating in Israel today, including the successors to the Brisk yeshiva, teach exclusively the tradition of Temple worship.

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.

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.

But the Felder push for Yeshivas represented a significant set back for the progress of the talks.

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.

Attention has also been focused on how a vacate order was lifted on a violation - riddled yeshiva run by Indig on Chrismas Eve 2014, the same day the building was cited.

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

Without Mr. Felder, who recently held up the state budget for concessions on how yeshivas are overseen by the state, the new Democratic coalition would still be one vote short of a majority.