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Friday, January 12th 2024
Maya Pontone Hyperallergic, Jan. 10, 2024 “… if you don’t know 770 Eastern Parkway, then you’re going to walk by the building or drive by it, and you’ll never see it … But to the Lubavitcher, it’s very exciting to them and it means only one thing.” A historic synagogue in New York […]
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Gilgal: YHWH’s Footprints in the Land of Israel: Zvi Koenigsberg, The Torah.com, Sept. 4, 2020 — In Deuteronomy 11, Moses tells the Israelites that when they cross over into the Cisjordan, they should head to the area of Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. New York State vs. the Yeshivas: Eli Spitzer, Mosaic Magazine, Oct. 25, […]
Eliza Shapiro and Brian M. Rosenthal NY Times, Sept. 12, 2022 “For many Hasidic people, their schools are succeeding — just not according to the standards set by the outside world. In a community that places religion at the center of daily life, secular education is often viewed as unnecessary, or even distracting.” […]
Rabbi Avi Shafran Religion News Service, Sept. 13, 2022 “The critical thinking, textual analysis, reading comprehension, argumentation skills; the historical knowledge, the foreign language acquisition, the legal concepts; indeed, the Jewish culture, tradition, and ethical behavior … embedded in these schools’ religious study are genuinely remarkable.” The flyers in the synagogues in my […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Sept. 12, 2022 “As much as it would be easy to dismiss the story, if test scores and reports from other sources, including from Jews who are deeply worried about the failure of this system to prepare its students for any sort of a productive life other than Torah scholarship—are to be […]
Jay Greene and Jason Bedrick The Daily Signal, Sept. 9, 2022 “Given rising rates of depression, aimlessness, drug abuse, self-mutilation, and suicide among young people in modern society, it’s easy to understand why so many Americans hew much closer to the yeshiva view of education than that of the ruling elites.” The New […]
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