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Starting a thread on comments and reactions in the Hasidic media to the @nytimes piece by @elizashapiro and @brianmrosenthal. "The two main writers were unfortunately of Jewish descent, a Schapiro - their education writer who for years hasn't been hiding her venom against yeshivas - and a Rosenthal."

--Satmar newspaper "Der Yid"

The word is in the Hasidic community that the tests that the @nytimes based the scores on, were deliberately done wrong by the Hasidic yeshivas, to enable the yeshivas to be designated as low-performing, and thus benefit from additional programs.
1/4 (This theory might be true in the sense that the yeshivah leaders didn't care that the tests score so badly, and didn't have the test-answers handed out to the students. But let's work with the theory that's going around in the community as a response to the 0% test scores.)
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As a Hasidic father, it’s time for an honest assessment of the @nytimes article by @elizashapiro. What did it get right, and what not perfectly.
While the sorry state of education in our yeshivas was understated, the prevalence of physical abuse is not as bad as it seems.
1/8 Let’s start with ed. While the article was clear that Hasidic yeshivas deny their students a secular education, one might come away with the impression that students do get education in Yiddish or Hebrew writing or Jewish history. The sad fact is that none of this happens. 2/8

Got into an argument here on Twitter, after I was accused of understating the severity of someone's crimes. I have no problem accepting that my choice of words was bad. My point might have been wrong altogether; and even if right, it wasn't said clearly enough. But a Twitter "comrade" wrote to me privately, "I got DM’s from women 'I thought he was a normal one.'"

I'd say, If hundreds and hundreds of tweets I wrote made you think I'm "a normal one," and suddenly one tweet you don't like changes your mind, you've got an issue.