Lebanese Palestinians Are Rising Up against the Right of Return
They want the right to work freely in Lebanon, but Beirut and Ramallah don’t want them to have it.
July 19, 2019
The Current Fight over Orthodox Schooling in New York State, and Its Sordid Backstory
Anti-Catholic bigotry and “substantial equivalency.”
In 2015, complaints from a group of former students of ḥasidic schools claiming that they had been denied proper educations prompted official investigations into over a dozen of these institutions in New York City. Thereafter, both the state and city governments launched their own probes into the curricula and quality of instruction at Orthodox private schools. The issue also led to debate in the state legislature and a lawsuit in defense of these schools. At the heart of the matter is an 1894 statue requiring private schools to provide educations “substantially equivalent” to those offered in public schools. Menachem Wecker explains that the law originated with a New England brahmin named Joseph Hodges Choate, who once told a group of Irish Americans to go back to their country:
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For a Quarter-Century, the Argentinian Government Has Sought to Cover Up Iran’s Role in the Bombing of a Jewish Community Center
The bloodiest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
Anti-Semitism Hits the Pages of a Leading German Periodical, Along with Anti-Semites’ Usual Claim of Having Been Silenced by Jews
The Protocols of the Elders of Zionism.
The Current Fight over Orthodox Schooling in New York State, and Its Sordid Backstory
Anti-Catholic bigotry and “substantial equivalency.”
A Stone-Age City Provides a Glimpse at the Land of Israel before the Time of Abraham
“A game changer.”