Monday, September 19, 2022

R. Aaron Teitelbaum, one of the two Satmar rebbes, is quoted as having said back in 2018: “The truth is, we either had very little secular studies or none at all. We will not comply, and we will not follow the state education commissioner under any circumstances.”

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  Critics of Hasidic Schools Exposé Missed the Point: It Wasn’t Antisemitic or the Product of Secular Bias — It’s a S...
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Sunday, September 18, 2022

Biden signs bill eliminating civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims --- No federal statute of limitations was in place for criminal claims regarding child sex abuse.

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ונקה ינקה   President Biden on Friday signed a bill that will eliminate the statute of limitations for people who were sexually abused as ...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Under current law, minors who experience sexual abuse are able to file federal civil claims until they turn 28 years old, or until 10 years after the violation or injury is discovered. The bill Congress passed seeks to eliminate those time restraints. There is no statute of limitations in place for criminal offenses involving child sex abuse.

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  Bill eliminating statute of limitations for child sex abuse civil suits heads to Biden’s desk The House on Tuesday passed a bill e...
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“It is dangerous. It is a risk. There is nothing that we or the Ukrainians can do to help protect you,” said Michael Brodsky, Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine.

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  Michael Brodsky the anti-Semite ---- NaNaNaNaNaNa Defying Ukraine’s wartime warnings, thousands of Hasidic pilgrims have made it to Uman f...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Everyone Of The Member Rabbis of These 2 Groups Had A Minimum of a High School Education, Some are College Graduates! (Except Malkiel Kotler).

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ALWAYS A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT ON EVERY IMPORTANT ISSUE!   Do religious Jews have a right to reject basic secular education?   Chassid...
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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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