Hasidim
“Are these relatively drab-looking, strict people allowed to indulge in such colorful work?”
The state can mandate educational requirements, but parents retain a right to determine how they fulfil them.
Nissim Black’s Glory.
The rescue of the Lubavitcher rebbe, and the last stand of the Lublin yeshiva.
Golden ages.
Public education can be in any language, but private Jewish education must be in English.
Intrigues, tsuris, and Albanian gangsters.
Religious education offers more than job preparation.
A photo essay.
A Pulitzer for the New York Times?
A legal victory for ḥasidic education.
A far cry from the “bland exoticism” of the New York Times.
The Offering.
If outsiders listen to leaders of the community rather than reformers on the margins, they’ll be more likely to come to agreement. Just look to Israel, where a new precedent was set.