The city has blown its deadline for completing a politically explosive investigation into whether yeshivas are breaking the law by cutting out secular studies in favor of religious instruction.
Albany, NY – A Republican Assemblyman is pushing for passage of legislation which would require private school administrators to report allegations of sexual abuse.
MONSEY – The FBI returned to the Town of Ramapo Friday to serve more search warrants in connection with an ongoing fraud probe in the county.
RAMAPO – The Highview Road yeshiva raided during the FBI’s computer technology fraud investigation has long frustrated residents who now fear a potential proliferation of more yeshivas and some dormitories in the surrounding neighborhood.
There was no science, no geography and no math beyond multiplication at the ultra-Orthodox Jewish school Chaim Weber attended. And the only time he ever heard of the American Revolution was when a seventh-grade teacher introduced it during “story time.”