fbpx

Blog

Blog

YAFFED Executive Director Beatrice Weber Testifies at NY State Legislative Budget Hearing on Education

YAFFED Executive Director Beatrice Weber testified at the New York State Legislature Joint Budget Hearing on Education, on Thursday, February 1, 2024. Watch her remarks below: The testimony detailed YAFFED’s advocacy for funding of mandated services aid for schools to be expanded to include administrative costs of demonstrating compliance with substantial equivalency law, as well

Read More »
Blog

WATCH: Beatrice Weber on CUNY TV – Keeping Relevant

Beatrice Weber describes the inadequate secular education being provided to thousands of children in New York City. As executive director of YAFFED, Ms Weber talks about her own experiences: her desire for an education, her case against a New York City school for failure to provide a secular education – which she won – and

Read More »
Blog

WATCH: “Yeshiva Stories” Event Recording

Recorded at City Lore on July 11, 2023, “Yeshiva Stories” is a storytelling event hosted by YAFFED, featuring yeshiva grads sharing their educational experiences. Click here to share your own story with us or visit https://yeshivastudents.com/

Read More »
Blog

It’s June 30th: DOE, Your Homework Is Due

Today is a monumental day in the fight for a sound basic education in all Yeshivas. Per orders from State Commissioner of Education Betty Rosa, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) must submit by June 30th, 2023 the completed report of its investigation into the quality of secular education offered at 28 NYC

Read More »
Blog

Mayor’s Category Conflation is dangerous for all of NYC’s students

Last week, at a fundraiser for the TeachNYS Coalition, a project of the Orthodox Union, New York City Mayor Eric Adams offered praise of yeshiva education system telling the assembled crowd: “We need to be duplicating what you are achieving”.  In making this comment, the Mayor once again reduced the horrific issue of educational neglect

Read More »

Stay Informed.

Sign Up For Our News & Alerts
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

WordPress Image Lightbox Plugin

Send a Letter

It is imperative that the people who hold the power to affect change, do. And your voice can help inspire education officials and political players to take action. Click below to submit a letter to NYC Council Education Committee Chair Rita Joseph. 

Invite Us to Speak

Awareness is the first step to achieving change. Please invite us to speak at your synagogue, club, community, center, etc.

Join a Network

You’re invited to band together with a community of individuals from your own area of expertise or personal interest to help advance Yaffed’s mission drawing on your personal experience or professional interests. 

Follow Us

You’re not going to want to miss our content! We’ll keep you posted on everything from media headlines and political players’ stance on this issue, to the real-life stories of individuals who have attended Hasidic Yeshivas.

Donate

A gift to Yaffed goes a long way in instilling meaningful change. With your financial support we can: amp up our advocacy efforts, launch strategic new initiatives, expand our reach, and place extra pressure on the people who hold the power to move this issue forward. 

Subscribe

We’d love to send you the latest news and information coming from Yaffed. Enter the following information below to be added to our mailing list of regular updates:

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

join a network of lawyers, educators, communal leaders, and others

  • Please let us know your availability to appear in person or virtually at events in which we need members of the public to speak out.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.