Mosdos Chasidei Square on Heyward Street, Mosdos Chasidei Square Boro Park on 43rd Street, and Yeshiva Torah V'Yirah Bais Rochel, also known as the United Talmudical Academy of Boro Park, on 36th Street are three yeshivas in New York City.
The state government recently toughened its stance against ultra-Orthodox schools that do not include secular education in their curriculum. With this new regulation, these three schools were informed that they will lose their secular status, and with it, their access to public funding.
The decision means they will no longer receive funding for transportation, food, textbooks, or other state-subsidized educational programs.
The measure is part of an initiative by the New York State Education Department to ensure that all students, including the 65.000 who attend yeshivas in the state, receive a minimum secular education, including basic skills in English, math, science, and social studies.
This idea of creating a different school alongside a country's education system doesn't leave a good impression. Incredibly, orthodoxy thinks that everything it uses and allows it to live was not invented by the very people it rejects. Speechless.
Go to Gaza, build a democracy there and bring the hostages!