Tuesday, September 13, 2022

“It is entirely possible for yeshivas to offer enriching English, math, and science education at the same time as a strong grounding in religious texts and Jewish tradition – indeed, many do. I know it personally, because many of my friends and colleagues are smart, well-educated yeshiva graduates".

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  Statement from Comptroller Lander on Board of Regents Vote on Academic Standards at Private Schools Receiving Public Funds   Sep...
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The purpose of the ḥasidic education system, beginning at age three and ending with marriage, is, quite simply, cultivating Ḥasidim. Lessons in the Pentateuch or Talmud are not primarily, often not at all, about developing academic skills—they are about molding a particular type of religious personality, one that will be comfortable in, satisfied by, and loyal to the ḥasidic community and way of life.

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  New York State vs. the (Hasidic) Yeshivas     Those who defend ḥasidic yeshivas against increasing state regulation have...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Rav Shraga Feivel believed this type of yeshiva was necessary in order to save Yiddishkeit in America and produce true bnei Torah. But was it permissible, was it Torahdig, to create a mesivta with a full range of secular studies according to this model?

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  Rav Shraga Feivel ztvk"l at his beloved Bais Medrash Elyon   The idea of post-elementary Torah education might have been new in Amer...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

The investigation found that in a state-level test of math and reading within a Satmar Hasidic school, 100% of students failed the tests. A Cessspool of Ignorance From Top to Bottom!

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  New York Times publishes Hasidic school investigation in Yiddish, too   Likely the 1st time newspaper has published in Yiddish; art...
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Friday, September 09, 2022

"We don't know exactly how it happened, but the baby is suffering from an almost complete amputation of his genitals," Asadi told N12. "This is a shocking case and the injury is very serious."

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  יענקל המוהל עיניים צולבות Israeli baby requires complex surgery after circumcision gone wrong   The baby required long and complex sur...
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Thursday, September 08, 2022

"They knowingly put hundreds of kids in potential danger" - A Jewish day school in New York secretly continued to employ a staff member whose resignation it had previously announced in the fallout of a child sex abuse scandal that rocked the community a year ago.

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  New York Jewish school secretly kept on staffer who ‘resigned’ over abuse scandal   Schechter principal, deputy d...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

When Herzl encountered the rise of modern anti-Semitism, rearing up out of an ostensibly liberal and enlightened world, he did not do what almost everyone else did, which was to pretend it wasn’t happening. He refused to lie to himself. He understood its terrible implications for the Jewish people and decided that he would resist it.

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  In Der Judenstaat he writes: "The Jewish question persists wherever Jews live in appreciable numbers. Wherever it does not exist,...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Chabad Is Running Out Of Jews To Convert To Their ManGod!

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  Chabad At Church of the Resurrection (Manhattan) https://jewishphilosophyplace.com/2022/09/02...
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Friday, September 02, 2022

When they write the history of Torah Jewry in America, honest historians will record the dereliction of duty of parents, rabbis, and irresponsible and destructive Jewish organizations who promote "minimal if any" secular education for the chidren of Klal Yisroel!

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  Outraged, Pleading, Defiant New York Yeshivas Brace for Vote on Education Regulations   NEW YORK — Yeshivas statewide a...
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Thursday, September 01, 2022

The research may have identified the victims of a massacre documented by 12th-century chronicler Ralph de Diceto, describing how a group of crusaders en route to Jerusalem made a fateful stop in Norwich on February 6, 1190, in which they butchered “all the Jews who were found in their own houses”.

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  Medieval bodies in Norwich well victims of anti-Semitism - DNA from human remains found in a medieval well in Norwich suggests they belon...