Sentences with phrase «yeshivas off»
«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.»
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«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.»
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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.
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.
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.
Children aboard a yeshiva school bus, which a new state budget measure would require to drop students off within 600 feet of their homes instead of the current quarter - mile.