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At least 6 Americans, including 3 teenagers, among victims in Israeli stampede April 30, 2021 8:01 pm A photo of Nachman Doniel Morris, a student who died in the stampede at Mount Meron in Israel on Lag b’Omer, was shared on social media. (Twitter)
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(New York Jewish Week via JTA) Among the 45 people killed in the crush of bodies at a Lag b’Omer celebration in northern Israel were at least six Americans with ties to the New York area.
They included 19-year-old yeshiva students from northern New Jersey and Monsey, New York, as well as a 13-year-old boy who had moved to Israel with his family.
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Twenty-five years ago, my colleagues and I founded
Yesodot – Center for Torah and Democracy to advance democracy education in the state religious school system. One of the pedagogical tools we developed was the “Rawls Game.” This pedagogical game was based upon the moral philosophy of the Harvard philosopher John Rawls, as he formulated it in his book,
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A billboard by YAFFED in front of a yeshiva, asking parents to think about their sons secular education. Schools in the ultra-Orthodox community are virtually all segregated by sex. (Courtesy)
JTA Advocates for improving secular studies in Hasidic yeshivas are getting an assist from an unlikely place: the federal case of a Hasidic man who has pleaded guilty to laundering drug money.
Zalman Zirkind of Montreal, but currently on house arrest in Brooklyn, is due to be sentenced Friday in US District Court in New York. Last summer he pleaded guilty to charges that carry a possible sentence of 11 to 14 years in prison.