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NEW YORK (VINnews) — In response to the vicious NY Times article attacking Chassidic yeshivas, multiple people have spoken out on social media in defense of the community. Some of the defenders are not even members of the Charedi world, yet they recognize the existential threat posed by the government being allowed to invade yeshivas and dictate their curriculums.

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Jay
Jay
1 year ago

Instead of all the “Askanim” tweeting and going on the offensive. Go on the DEFENSIVE and endorse out loud Lee Zeldin for governor. I’m not interested in anyone’s tweet and press releases. Tomorrow’s front page of any orthodox paper should be an endorsement for Lee Zeldin. We Yidden have the ability to elect Zeldin if we are united as one. Chasidish, Litvish, Yeshuvash, we can all do it together…

Conservative Carl
Conservative Carl
1 year ago

We’re doing everyone a disservice by lumping the yeshivas that provide an excellent education together with the ones that provide none at all.

Triumpinwhitehouse
Triumpinwhitehouse
1 year ago

Chaskel bennett is both fjcc and aguda board member BOTH groups are actively helping hochul and in fact FJCC endorsed her can’t have it both ways

Brian Benjamin
Brian Benjamin
1 year ago

Thank you privileged white female Kathy Hochul. You and your crooked husband are responsible for this smear on an entire race.

Naftali Rabinovich
Naftali Rabinovich
1 year ago

On September 11!!! A day of the greatest 21st century and NY tragedy!!! But no! Alas! The NYT has more important business to discuss on the front page. Tragic and . . . desperate.

Nekama
Nekama
1 year ago

Satmar needs to respond to this article by endorsing Lee zeldin for governor, and not endorse hochul/ NY times as they are One and the same.

It takes no brains to vote Democrat
It takes no brains to vote Democrat
1 year ago

If anyone is upset at this, they need to look internally. They need to look at themselves! If you keep voting for the left, Democrats for the uneducated, eventually they’re going to turn around and bite you. The Democrats do to us what they do to the blacks. They come to us every two or four years when they need our votes. When they need votes they’re there for us. When they don’t need votes, they’ll do this to us.

It’s about time the Jews in New York and elsewhere, wake up and realize that their almighty salvation is not going to be from the left. It may not be from the Republican/conservative side but their chances are far better.

Rush Limbaugh was right, it takes no brains to vote Democrat.

triumphinwhitehouse
triumphinwhitehouse
1 year ago

the government goal is to teach “alnernative lifestyles” they know that Satmar/Aguda/ and most of all FJCC will ALWAYS support Democrats so they know they can control these court Jews with a few boxes of matza etc. and a picture at a breakfast but the goal is to prevent an entire generation growing up believing that toeiva is bad and they cant do it with the current regulations. Too bad we dont have Rav Avigdor Miller to say it like it is and call out Aguda/FJCC for cuddling these Democrats for $$$$$.

StaunchLiberal
StaunchLiberal
1 year ago

hmmm, so where did that billion dollars go? Why is tuition double then it was ten years ago?

elyeh
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elyeh
1 year ago

There are at least 2 different issues regarding legal and financial fraud and abuse in this article –

1. the English/secular education of Chasidishe kinder and 2. the funds that come from the government in different forms to support the Yeshivas and as welfare payments for children, food, housing and more.

Add to that the other issues of bloc voting and political support.

If you read the NY Times comment sections you will see that this article has many, many comments.

NeveAliza
NeveAliza
1 year ago

My impression from reading the article and the comments is that the people who are upset believe that the NYT had no right to expose something that everyone in the religious Jewish community already knew about.
This YIN article that copies all the anti-NYT comments and responses makes it look like the general public has come down hard on the NYT. But take a look at the responses to the article on the NYT site, and you get an idea of the Chilul Hashem this has caused.
And don’t blame the messenger…

sisi
sisi
1 year ago

IMAGINE such a hit piece from nyt against any other group what a outcry it would bring we are in galus WAKE UP its elul we had in the generations such enemies and god didnt let us fall may we be zoche to moshiach soon

Dr. Alex Morales
Dr. Alex Morales
1 year ago

let’s look at one and only one metric in comparing Hasidic schools with NYC Public Schools. CRIME STATISTICS.

End of story.

Educated Archy
Educated Archy
1 year ago

Satmar needs to respond to the disturbing potching accusations which we all know are true. And I mean smacking kids violently for stupid things and not your here and there one patch for chutzpah

Phineas
Phineas
1 year ago

Oh please. The New York Times doesn’t hate or like chasidim. The reporters followed the story which received attention when former yeshiva boys went public with their lack of education.

If the samar schools feel the were maligned, they can sue for libel but that would mean exposing their curriculum to public scrutiny.

My daughter goes to bais yaakov and the teachers are terrified because they’ve been told that this sorry will effect them. It won’t, they get an excellent secular education. This is about exclusively Yiddish speaking schools that provide no secular education beyond some arithmetic.

Even yeshivish places like chaim Berlin will be fine. The government isn’t looking for prep school level standards, just basic instruction.

Also, for the people pointing put that many chasidim succeed, that’s like saying all kids should focus on basketball in lieu of studies because a few make the nba.

Paul Near Philadelphia
Paul Near Philadelphia
1 year ago

Is anyone saying the Times story was wrong in any important way?