NEW YORK (RNS) — Three weeks ago, the board of regents of the New York State Education Department released new regulations for nonpublic schools to make sure the education they offer, per state law, ...

Recently the quality of secular education in chassidic yeshivas has become a topic of discussion and contention. Some claim the quality of such instruction is, at best, poor and does not meet New York ...

A lawsuit brought by a Canadian ex-Hasidic couple who testified in court that they suffered years of underemployment after receiving a substandard secular education in suburban Montreal Hasidic ...

Gracie Mansion hopeful Andrew Yang on Thursday mounted an extraordinary defense of the Big Apple’s embattled yeshiva schools, telling a Jewish mayoral forum that the city has little business ...

The films follows the aftermath of a 2015 complaint by graduates of haredi schools who felt ill-equipped for jobs and higher learning. (JTA) — Are yeshiva students being denied the solid secular ...

A theology of the body lecture by a Dominican priest. A seminar on St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Rules for the Discernment of Spirits. While these kinds of offerings can certainly be found at distinctly ...

City officials are dragging their heels on a politically-sensitive probe of whether Hasidic schools provide their students with a secular education, advocates charge. The Department of Education ...

There are certain values that undergird Jewish life, spanning observance and denominational affiliation. One is the concept that if a person saves one life, it is as if the entire world was saved ...

Since seizing power, the Taliban has appointed its foot soldiers, commanders, and leaders as ministers and the heads of state-run institutions in Afghanistan, including universities and hospitals. The ...

(JTA) — Are yeshiva students being denied the solid secular education guaranteed them under the law, or should New York City yeshivas have the freedom to set their own religious curricula free from ...

The films follows the aftermath of a 2015 complaint by yeshiva graduates who claimed they received an inadequate secular education. (JTA) — Are yeshiva students being denied the solid secular ...