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An advocate for secular education among Haredi Jews discovers journalism

By Yonat Shimron — August 14, 2023
(RNS) — Naftuli Moster became convinced there needs to be an independent news outlet that holds Haredi leaders and institutions — and especially the rabbinic establishments — accountable.

The case for secular education in Hasidic schools

By Naftuli Moster — April 7, 2022
(RNS) — The Jewish community is not served by depriving people of the right to their own history.

Questioning real-world learning at ultra-Orthodox schools

By Karen Matthews — July 22, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Complaints that some schools run by the city's strictly observant Hasidic Jews barely teach English, math, science or social studies have fueled a movement to demand stricter oversight by state and local educational authorities.
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