YAFFED

Committed to improving education in Haredi & Hasidic schools & yeshivas — because every child has a right to learn.

Media inquiries: [email protected]

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

The grievances outlined in this complaint have already been dismissed repeatedly in state court. This isn't about protecting civil rights — it’s about shielding institutions from accountability while tens of thousands of kids are denied a basic education.

https://t.co/bVUqTRcuP3

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

The stakes couldn’t be higher for YAFFED’s work in 2025. We’re going to need all hands on deck this year!

We're holding an informational session to share our upcoming action and how you can get involved.

Tuesday, December 17, 6pm on Zoom

RSVP here: https://t.co/r8KdpBXmMR

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

Your support of YAFFED powers our advocacy for those deprived of their fundamental right to a sound, basic education.

Today, your support goes twice as far: in honor of #givingtuesday, each donation to YAFFED before midnight tonight will be matched!

https://t.co/95l9PfXNRe

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

This Wednesday, November 20th:

Join @beawebwriter and leading legal scholars in a webinar hosted by @NYCBarAssn as they discuss the changing legal landscape over the future of substantially equivalent education in private schools.

Register here:
https://t.co/pt2KraKr4x

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

We hope that elected officials like @SenSchumer, @RepJeffries, and candidates like @MondaireJones recognize that no political deal jeopardizing the future of New York's children will ever be worth making.

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

Every child in New York has a constitutional right to an education. This should be non-negotiable.

Rhetoric like this threatens to put kids at risk by undermining the work state lawmakers have done in recent years to protect the right to a substantially equivalent education.
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[KolHaolam @KolHaolam]

NEW YORK: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and former Rep. Mondaire Jones, currently running for Congress in Monsey, visited the Skvere Rebbe in New Square to seek support from the Kehilla for the Democrats in the upcoming elections.

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

When Senator Schumer asks, “It works, so why try to change it?”, he misses the 64.2% poverty rate in New Square, the highest poverty rate in the entire New York State.

https://t.co/FdxAL72uDH

The only thing a lack of basic education "works" to do is put people into poverty.

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

Statewide private education reforms are likely being discussed here. This happened just a few days ago with the Trump campaign, too.

It doesn't matter which side of the aisle they're on, politicians should never use children's educational rights as a bargaining chip for votes.

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

House Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Pat Ryan met today with the Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Joel.

The Hasidic sect there — a large voting bloc — is in Ryan’s district,

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

Family court judges have long prioritized continuity over educational quality in custody disputes, @lauren_hakimi writes in @Shtetlnews. A bill introduced by @bradhoylman in the State Senate seeks to change that.

https://t.co/eBjolyMhOc

[JBS @JBSTVORG]

In case you missed it: @apogrebin sits down with former rebbetzin and mother of 10 @beawebwriter who shares her story of leaving her Hasidic community and now leading @yaffedorg that works to improve secular education in Hasidic and Haredi schools.
https://t.co/P39zg0hnI5

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

For @uriltzedek, @beawebwriter spoke with @RavShmuly about the principle of כל ישראל ערבים זה בזה ("every Jew is responsible for one another"), and our obligation to advocate for all children to receive a sound basic education.

Watch the interview here:
https://t.co/Z4acnbfZN9

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

Join us at After Orthodoxy Conference on Sept 15-16!

The first conference and festival organized by formerly Orthodox Jewish academics, featuring a panel discussion on ex-Orthodox activism with @beawebwriter & @nmoster

Register for free admission here:
https://t.co/3lYpGTpeNw

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

Statewide regulations on substantial equivalency by @NYSEDNews ensure that every student receives the education they're legally entitled to. The court upheld these regulations. Undoing them now would undermine the educational rights of thousands of kids in New York.

[New York Daily News @NYDailyNews]

Yeshiva group goes back to court in bid to derail tougher NY state regulation

Reformers say too many yeshiva graduates are leaving school without basic math and reading skills.
https://t.co/2LPrDDbtr7

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

The Appellate Court got it right when they upheld the education regulations: a school that doesn't provide substantially equivalent instruction is breaking the law.

If we want to see improvement, there must be consequences for schools that don't comply with the law.

[Shtetl @Shtetlnews]

PEARLS requests permission to appeal yeshiva education case to NY’s highest court
Can the state withhold aid to a private school found to offer inadequate secular education?

https://t.co/I4O4pFWg7r

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

The Haredi schools in Israel that joined the public education system prove that educational programming is a choice made by community leaders, not parents.

We hope this decision will influence Haredi and Hasidic schools in New York to undergo a similar transformation.

[Shtetl @Shtetlnews]

‘Earthquake in the Haredi education system’ Some yeshivas in Israel will start offering more secular education
The Mamach curriculum comes with government funding, but avoids subjects that are considered taboo.

https://t.co/1irVrfk0Zt

[JBS @JBSTVORG]

TONIGHT at 8 ET on JBS: @apogrebin sits with speaker, activist, former Hasidic rebbetzin, mother of 10 & @yaffedorg exec dir @beawebwriter to discuss her org’s mission of improving secular education in Hasidic & Haredi schools.
https://t.co/nhezcXSXRw
https://t.co/VZ6fgOWbQ9

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

Yet another disturbing instance of children's educational rights being reduced to a bargaining chip for votes.

As @lauren_hakimi reports, Jewish kids are being treated as pawns in a culture war by fundamentalist Christians shamelessly exploiting antisemitism for political gain.

[Shtetl @Shtetlnews]

Speaker Johnson to New Square: We’ll fight for religious education ‘with every ounce of energy we have’
Johnson visited New Square alongside Congressman Mike Lawler ahead of the upcoming general election.

https://t.co/DwCMGOnIJj

[Madina Touré @madinatoure]

A state appellate court on Thursday ruled that top education officials can enforce a directive requiring private schools to meet learning standards in core subjects like English, math, science and history. https://t.co/aUTyK1gIoT

[YAFFED @yaffedorg]

New York State law is clear: every child has the right to an education.

No school is exempt from the law. Today's ruling is a signal to the yeshivas who have been willfully ignoring the law that the time has come for them to accept reality and deliver a sound, basic education.

[Shtetl @Shtetlnews]

New York State court rules that government can withdraw aid from failing yeshivas
Appellate division overrules Supreme Court to empower the state to stop serving private schools that won’t improve secular education.

https://t.co/TjT1gELKEC