Iran’s New President Earned His Post with Bloodshed
The U.S. shouldn’t remove sanctions on Ebrahim Raisi.
June 21, 2021
The Government Should Keep Its Involvement in Religious Schools to a Minimum
Why Andrew Yang is right about ḥasidic education.
In February, the New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said in an interview that the municipal government “shouldn’t interfere with [ḥasidic] religious and parental choice” regarding schooling, “as long as the outcomes are good.” After the increased governmental scrutiny of ḥaredi schools in recent years over concerns that they provide inadequate secular educations, such statements have won Yang the support of some prominent Orthodox rabbis and communal leaders. Michael Broyde and Moshe Krakowski argue that his position is fundamentally correct:
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What Benjamin Netanyahu Achieved, and What His Successors Can Learn from Him
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The Government Should Keep Its Involvement in Religious Schools to a Minimum
Why Andrew Yang is right about ḥasidic education.