I attended Chabad #dayschool as a child. I have my issues with them, for sure, but one of them is not the quality of my secular #education. When I moved to public school in 10th grade I was well-prepared, and I went on to attend the college of my choice.

These NY #yeshivot, however, are a different story. They're attempting to create here what they've successfully created in #Israel: an entire generation of adults unable to make any contribution to society whatsoever; unable to make a living anywhere outside the #haredi community; unable to speak the language of their country; unable to act as informed citizens of a #democracy; and ultimately, unable to raise children of their own who are not similarly handicapped.

Torah-observant #Jews needn't be so isolated from the greater community.

Good for #NewYork for insisting that NY children be given the opportunity to become educated, fully-participating members of society.

#JTA #yeshiva #Jewish #education

https://www.jta.org/2025/03/20/united-states/three-more-new-york-city-yeshivas-lose-status-and-funding-over-secular-education-standards

"One cannot underestimate the importance of the #historical documents in this volume of the first #letters written by #Holocaust survivors after their liberation, titled Dew Of Revival: First letters of people of faith after the Holocaust (Jerusalem: Michlalah Jerusalem College and Mossad Harav Kook, 2024). . Painstakingly collected by Hebrew University-trained Rebbetzin Esther Farbstein, the leading #Haredi #scholar of the #religious response to the #Shoah, they preserve the intense feelings that ranged from grief, despair, hope and calls for revenge, while recognizing the need to reconstruct their lives, even as they felt adrift."

https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/first-letters-of-people-of-faith-after-the-holocaust/2025/02/23/

Rabbi Dov Landau’s words expose deepening haredi-Israel rift https://www.byteseu.com/?p=761362 #Antizionism #Haredi #HarediDraft #IDF #Israel #IsraeliSociety

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood in Jerusalem [File: Atef Safadi/EPA-EFE]

@palestine
#Israel
#Haredi

Halevi says that more short draft to IDF during situational assessment – Israel News https://www.byteseu.com/?p=524502 #Golani #Haredi #HerziHalevi #Israel #NorthernArrows

Alessio Mamo for the Guardian | International Daily Press | I will never join the army

#Haredi families confront members of the Israel Defense Forces in Mea Shearim, an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood in Jerusalem, during the festival of Purim.

Photograph: Alessio Mamo for the Guardian

@photography
#Israel

#palestine
#haredi
@palestine

"The largest anti-draft rally in a decade united several Haredi factions, whose adherents carried signs that read
“We will not enlist in an enemy army,”
“We would rather live as Jews than die as Zionists,”
“To jail and not to the army,” “Zionism uses Jews as human shields,”

I'm starting to like them ...

https://www.972mag.com/haredi-protest-army-conscription-ruling/

"After court ruling, AG tells IDF to immediately start drafting 3,000 #Haredi students"

#EU #War #NATO #NAFO #News #Democrats #GOP #Republicans #MAGA #Russia #Israel #USA #Hamas #Hezbollah #Israel #Syria #Palestine #Lebanon #WarCrimes #UN #Ceasefire #Gaza #IDF

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-court-ruling-ag-tells-idf-to-immediately-start-drafting-3000-haredi-students/

#palestine
#haredi
@palestine

"Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the government must recruit ultra-Orthodox Jewish institute students into the army, a decision likely to shock Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition...his government includes two religious parties whose withdrawal from the coalition could lead to new elections that opinion polls indicate that Netanyahu will lose"

https://alquds.com/en/posts/126031

The #Haredi have been exempt from the draft since 1948 in #Israel. The Israeli dictatorship is so bent on genocide in #Gaza that certain members of their coalition want to end it. This could mean the end of Netanyahu's coalition government. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/17/2229932/-Will-The-End-of-Military-Draft-Exemption-For-Haredi-Spell-The-End-To-Netanyahu-s-Government?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web

"Since #Israel was founded in 1948, it has fielded a citizens’ army with mandatory #Jewish conscription—and one very notable exception: Ultra-Orthodox, or #Haredi, yeshiva students do not serve."

#IDF #Gaza #Netanyahu

https://shorturl.at/quBLZ

Yiddish, chant, peinture, cinéma, violence politique (en Ukraine et en Palestine) indicible :
#Regardez une discussion autour du film "SHTTL" avec l'auteur : https://akadem.org/shttl:-filmer-l'immontrable @histoire@chirp.social @histoire@a.gup.pe

Working on #Haredi material often means encounters like the one I had earlier this week. After performing #Yiddish Bais Yaakov songs from interwar Poland as part of a conference on Bais Yaakov, I was approached by a member of the community who had been at the performance. She told me that our choir was cultural appropriation. When I reminded her that, as we had said in our introduction, all of us had attended BY schools, she said "but you left it, so it's cultural appropriation."
#Jewishstudies

It's really wild that I'm presenting a paper on this topic on Monday. Wish I could go tell 12th grade me how 35-year-old me would use her high school materials and experiences.
#academia #tznius #modesty #baisyaakov #girlschool #Jewish #frum #haredi #religion #religiousstudies #JewishStudies @academicchatter

A long time ago, I subscribed to Lehovin because I wanted to see what it was. It's not easy to unsubscribe, so when I was done with my research (lol), I just filtered the emails to spam. Going through spam now, I idly opened this one up, and saw this article, "Have We Become Modern Orthodox?" and just... well, this is interesting... I mean, it's essentially about #YeshivaGate but what a fascinating way to talk about this, what fascinating rhetoric...