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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 561

YAFFED - Young Advocates for Fair Education

Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox man crosses a street in a Jewish neighborhood in Williamsburg Brooklyn in New York City on April 24, 2019 (Johannes EISELE / AFP)
February 20, 2025, 12:42 am
2 NYC yeshivas are not meeting standards and must effectively close, state rules
Schools face most significant consequences to date in ongoing fight between Haredi institutions and education officials over minimum requirements for subjects like English and math
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Ari Goldman speaks at Yeshiva Stories in New York City, July 11, 2023. (Phylisa Wisdom via JTA)
July 17, 2023, 2:55 am
At NYC event inspired by The Moth, yeshiva grads roast their religious upbringings
Speakers at Yeshiva Stories decry the lack of secular education in religious institutions and tell some harrowing and humorous tales of life in the ultra-Orthodox world
By Gabe Friedman
Naftuli Moster, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Yaffed, speaks at a news conference, July 24, 2019. (Yaffed via JTA)
December 1, 2022, 5:13 am
New York activist for yeshiva education reform to launch Haredi news organization
Naftuli Moster hopes ‘Shtetl’ will launch in 2023 and fill a void in ultra-Orthodox media; he declines to reveal funding sources but says paper will produce independent journalism
By Jackie Hajdenberg
A man walks past an Orthodox yeshiva in Brooklyn, Sept. 29, 2020. (Daniel Moritz-Rabson/ via JTA)
August 11, 2021, 4:53 am
New documentary tackles debate over secular education in New York City yeshivas
Joe Kolman’s ‘An Unorthodox Education’ airs complaints by former students who claim they weren’t given the tools to succeed in non-Orthodox society
By Shira Hanau
A billboard by YAFFED in front of a yeshiva, asking parents to think about their sons' secular education. (Courtesy)
January 14, 2021, 4:47 pm
Hasidic man cites lack of schooling in US mercy plea for laundering drug money
Canadian citizen Zalman Zirkind faces up to 14 years in American federal prison on charges; says little secular education led to financial desperation in supporting large family
By Shira Hanau
Pedestrians walk past a yeshiva in the South Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, April 9, 2019. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)
August 14, 2019, 4:47 am
Why NY Jewish schools are joining fight against increasing secular education
Orthodox yeshivas, Catholic schools and elite private schools are coming together to oppose a government initiative that would more clearly define what they are required to teach
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: Young students at an ultra-Orthodox school. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 17, 2017, 4:40 am
Will they ever learn? US ultra-Orthodox still failing to teach math and science
A group of former yeshiva students works to change a system weighted towards religious studies that neglects to prepare graduates for work — or university
By Yaakov Schwartz
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