Matty Lichtenstein, at The Blogs

Sep 16, 2022, 4:26 PM

How New York City’s Hasidic yeshivas gained legitimacy

In this Sept. 20, 2013 file photo, children and adults cross a street in front of a school bus in Borough Park, a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York that is home to many ultra-Orthodox Jewish families. Critics have charged for years that the rudimentary level of secular education at private yeshiva schools serving New York's Hasidic communities are deficient in teaching science, geography and math to grade school students. Now, for the first time, the city Department of Education is investigating more than three dozen of the schools to make sure their instruction is up to the most basic standards. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

The Hasidim avoiding state educational requirements argue that yeshiva students are doing just fine, but the maneuvers they need to make the case suggests otherwise

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Matty Lichtenstein is a research associate at Brown University. Her research focuses on social policy, family, health and gender, and her publications have appeared in journals including the American Journal of Sociology and Qualitative Sociology.