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All schools must teach the basics: N.Y. top court helps yeshiva students, even after Legislature and governor betray them
New York’s highest court made mostly the right decision in upholding the state and city’s ability to regulate religious ...
US attack on Iran creates dividing line in final days of New York mayoral race
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani condemned the United States’ bombing campaign in Iran Saturday, while rival Andrew Cuomo raised red flags about the Middle-Eastern country. The ...
The New York Sun1d
New York’s Orthodox Jewish Community Celebrates High Court Ruling on Yeshivas
It brings an end a years-long legal battle over the state’s authority to govern the curriculum of religious schools.
COLlive2dOpinion
Why I’m Voting for Cuomo in the June 24 Primary
More than three decades after the Crown Heights riots of '91, many fear history could repeat itself under the leadership of a ...
Courthouse News Service3d
New York’s high court greenlights provision to regulate Jewish schools
The yeshivas scrutinized by these rules are schools that focus solely on religious studies, giving students little to no ...
Cleveland Jewish News3d
For these New York Jews, neither Cuomo nor Mamdani are on the ballot
Matt Seinuk, a Jewish civil engineer who lives in the East Village, has been paying very close attention to the Democratic mayoral race.
The Forward3d
Once the poster child of the yeshiva reform movement, he now has regrets
He considers the confrontational tactics he once embraced misguided and says he has developed a deep appreciation for the ...
NY yeshiva advocates react to top court's ruling on 'substantially equivalent' education
The Court of Appeals' June 18 ruling asserts that state education law doesn't force parents to take their kids out of a ...
NY’s highest court upholds educational standards for yeshivas
The Court of Appeals’ unanimous ruling is a win for yeshiva reformers who say ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools are failing to ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4d
Once the poster child of the yeshiva reform movement, Naftuli Moster now has regrets
He considers the confrontational tactics he once embraced misguided and says he has developed a deep appreciation for the ...
City & State New York4d
Mamdani on threatening messages: ‘It takes a toll’
The mayoral candidate choked up Wednesday as he described how he’s dealt with Islamophobia and accusations of antisemitism.
NY can regulate yeshivas but can't close them, Court of Appeals rules
The agency does not have that power and can’t require children to be enrolled elsewhere, the Court of Appeals ruled.