YU Degrees Dismissed Again
by Stewart Ain Staff Writer When Rabbi Jonathan Snowbell was taking undergraduate and graduate classes at Yeshiva University, he never dreamed the State of Israel would find his YU degrees...
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by Steve Lipman Staff Writer A few hundred Jewish schools are among more than a thousand area nonpublic schools disputing a decision by state authorities to withhold mandated payments because of a...
View ArticleYeshiva Fired, Then Paid, Rabbi Charged With Abuse
by Hella Winston/ Larry Cohler-Esses Special Report/Editor at Large. A Brooklyn rabbi charged with having sexually molested his students has collected almost $70,000 from Yeshiva Torah Temimah and...
View ArticleTables Turn On Arab School Critics
by Doug Chandler And Larry Cohler-Esses Jewish Week contributor and Editor at Large. A key leader of the group opposing a new, Arab-focused public school in Brooklyn is a virulent opponent of a...
View ArticleEx-Arab School Head Rapped For Rally Partners
by Larry Cohler-Esses Editor At Large In her first public appearance since departing under fire from the Khalil Gibran International Academy, Debbie Almontaser, its former head, stood by as a cast of...
View ArticleTables Turn On Arab School Critics
by Doug Chandler And Larry Cohler-Esses Jewish Week Contributor and Editor at Large. A key leader of the group opposing a new, Arab-focused public school in Brooklyn is a virulent opponent of a...
View ArticleSteinhardt Seeks Hebrew Charter School Here
by Larry Cohler-Esses and Carolyn Slutsky Editor-at-Large and Staff Writer There will be no kosher meals. No Jewish holiday observances. And many — perhaps even most — of the students won’t be Jewish....
View ArticleKiryas Joel Foes Holding Fire
by Lawrence Cohler-Esses Staff Writer Like Jesus' friend Lazarus, Sylvester Stallone's Rocky and the hope that springs eternal, Kiryas Joel, the upstate chasidic school district ruled thrice an...
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