admin | December 11, 2022
There must be hundreds of New York City detectives across the last century of film and television from Dan Muldoon in Naked City to Jake Peralta in Brooklyn Nine-Nine but few are as unusual as Avraham Avraham. It goes beyond the quirky name: Avraham, the protagonist of David E. Kelleys new Peacock series, The Calling, has become more religious as hes aged, but hes not specifically Orthodox or even kosher.
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admin | December 7, 2022
For years, the largest private Hasidic Jewish school in New York State illegally diverted millions of dollars from a variety of government programs, paid teachers off the books and requested reimbursements for meals for students that it never actually provided, the yeshivas operators admitted in federal court on Monday.
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admin | December 7, 2022
A developer has sued the Crawford Town Board for denying a zoning change he needed to build apartments, claiming the board turned against his project in 2020 after residents raised objections based on anti-Hasidic sentiment.
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admin | December 7, 2022
The groups all emphatically said Hasidic schools operate independently of each other, not as a network. They denied some of The Timess findings, including that the schools do not provide an adequate education and that teachers regularly use corporal punishment. They also noted that the schools receive far less taxpayer money per pupil than public schools do, and they said Hasidic neighborhoods were not as impoverished as government data might suggest.
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admin | November 6, 2022
A Hasidic school in Brooklyn,New York, has agreed to pay$5 million in penalties to resolve aninvestigation into its allegedly fraudulent conduct, including the illegaluse of millions of dollars of government funding for entirely fictitious programs,according to the Department of Justice. The Central United Talmudical Academy in Brooklyn (CUTA),which serves more than4,600students in Williamsburg, agreed to pay $5 million in penalties, in addition to over $3 million in restitution it has already paid out, prosecutors announced on Oct. 24.
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admin | November 6, 2022
Earlier this month, New York Times reporter Eliza Shapiro told Here & Now about an investigation into New York's Hasidic yeshivas, or schools, that offer so little non-religious education that students get to high school without basic reading and math skills.
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admin | November 6, 2022
Jewish ceremony Upsherin, Upsheren,[1] Opsherin or Upsherinish (Yiddish: , lit. "shear off", Judaeo-Arabic: , alqah[2]) is a haircutting ceremony observed by a wide cross-section of Jews and is particularly popular in Haredi Jewish communities. It is typically held when a boy turns three years old.
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admin | October 17, 2022
The New York Times took the rare step of translating its investigation of Hasidic yeshivas into Yiddish by The New York Times By Rukhl SchaechterSeptember 12, 2022 Sundays groundbreaking New York Times article about the dismal state of secular education in the Hasidic yeshivas in Brooklyn and the lower Hudson Valley elicited much heated discussion on social media.
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admin | October 17, 2022
A Sukkot fair in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Oct.
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admin | October 17, 2022
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) The menu at Yalla is as Middle Eastern as it gets: hummus, falafel, shawarma in a pita, a bowl or on a plate. This food truck on a concrete patch beside a grassy lawn, a close walk from the Duke University dining hall, is the campuss latest interfaith venture
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