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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

Yeshiva day schools

Talia Avrahami, a transgender woman who left her position at a Brooklyn yeshiva, after a controversy over her identity. (Courtesy)
September 19, 2022, 10:59 pm
New York yeshiva asks transgender teacher to leave amid uproar over her identity
Instructor agrees to resign after community controversy, widespread harassment; school says parting was in an ‘amicable and professional manner’
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk in Jerusalem on October 19, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 19, 2020, 12:27 pm
As Haredi schools rebellion goes on, health minister admits enforcement is weak
Edelstein vows to do what he can to crack down on ultra–Orthodox schools continuing to open illegally; Bnei Brak deputy mayor says city will not comply with rules
By ToI Staff
Ronni Gamzu at a meeting with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion at the Jerusalem City Hall, August 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
October 18, 2020, 10:58 pm
Report: 3 advisers to virus czar threaten to quit over opening of Haredi schools
Ronni Gamzu said to make great efforts to persuade experts to stay, while warning that illegal opening of Torah institutions could serve a crushing blow to public trust
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni, at the opening event of its election campaign, ahead of the Israeli elections, in Jerusalem, on February 12, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 18, 2020, 9:44 pm
Threatened with fines, top Haredi MK insists community won’t shut down schools
Moshe Gafni says he made issue ‘clear’ to Netanyahu during conversation; health minister warns schools breaching lockdown may be fined, lose licenses
By ToI Staff
Boys play in a yeshiva school in Beitar Illit that opened in violation of coronavirus regulations, October 18, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)
October 18, 2020, 11:46 am
Hundreds of Haredi schools in high-infection areas reopen in violation of rules
Widespread rebellion comes after top rabbi told boys’ classes to resume; 3 institutions fined; ministers call to defund defiant schools, while some ultra-Orthodox fume at Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Erica Brown
January 3, 2018, 12:49 pm
Erica Brown
At 16, I could barely write my name in Hebrew
Day schools graduate compassionate, spiritual kids, who use good judgment, advocate for justice… and get into good colleges
Susan Jacobs Jablow
November 10, 2017, 4:23 pm
Susan Jacobs Jablow
Day school education is worth it
I was 11 and embarrassed that I couldn’t recite the Grace after Meals easily, like my cousins
Haidy Wasef (left) with a student in her Arabic class at Gann Academy in Waltham, Massachusetts, 2016 (Courtesy)
February 3, 2017, 12:31 am
American Jewish day schools say ‘ahlan’ to Arabic
At request of pupils motivated by politics and peace, US high schools adding courses in Israel’s ‘other’ official language
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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