.@liamstack has a very interesting look at how Andrew Yang locked up the support of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn (and mainly the ultra-Orthodox or Haredi community).
nytimes.com/2021/05/21/nyr…
nytimes.com/2021/05/21/nyr…
It was mainly his promise to take a hands-off approach to yeshivas.
Advocates comprised of people schooled in Haredi/Hasidic yeshivas, but often no longer in the fold, got the city to investigate the adequacy of the secular education.
Advocates comprised of people schooled in Haredi/Hasidic yeshivas, but often no longer in the fold, got the city to investigate the adequacy of the secular education.
The city has found a lack of adequate secular education at 26 out of 28 schools investigated.
Haredi leaders point out that that's a tiny fraction of all yeshivas and argue that failing public schools don't get the same scrutiny.
Haredi leaders point out that that's a tiny fraction of all yeshivas and argue that failing public schools don't get the same scrutiny.
But even that city inquiry was slow-walked because of de Blasio's concerns about maintaining relationships in the Orthodox world: nytimes.com/2019/12/18/nyr…
One of the challenges is that the families most willing to speak up about improving the schools have often left the ultra Orthodox community ...
... That means they have less political power.
There are a number of modern Orthodox rabbis though on this @yaffedorg letter calling for the city and state to comply with its obligation to educate every child: yaffed.org/letter-from-je…
There are a number of modern Orthodox rabbis though on this @yaffedorg letter calling for the city and state to comply with its obligation to educate every child: yaffed.org/letter-from-je…
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