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February 6, 2025

Hasidic Schools Go to Bat for the First Amendment

The yeshivas take their case to New York’s highest court.

For the past few years, the New York State government has been in an ongoing dispute with hasidic yeshivas, which it is trying to force to spend more time teaching secular subjects. Real as the problems of inadequate secular education are at some of these schools, the state’s attempt to impose its will has been heavy-handed and even punitive. The New York Court of Appeals is now about to hear the ensuing lawsuit. The editors of the New York Sun comment:

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