New York ultra-Orthodox groups’ secret fight for education
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After New York Times expose on violation of children’s right to education, Haredi activists say they have been fearing retribution while discreetly promoting inclusion of core subjects in religious schoolsFearing harm of being shunned, a discreet group of ultra-Orthodox and Hassidic activists in New York have began pushing against what has been described as
A report by the New York Times’s last September, found that students in some Hasidic schools were “being denied a basic education” and trapped in a “cycle of joblessness and dependency.”
The investigative report lasting over a year, included interviews with hundreds of parents, even testing some of the children to ascertain their knowledge of core subjects.
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Does religious freedom include the right to deny children access to core educational subjects?