Haredi Schools

Who knows what F stands for?

Haredi school surprises students with firetruck exhibition and fire safety lecture.

Against school code:

Girl suspended from haredi school after celebrating Bat Mitzvah

The school claims the party went late, the songs at the event were not from the approved list, and several male relatives were present.

The New York Times’ unethical war on hassidic schools

The 18-part assault on yeshivas says more about the decline of journalistic ethics than it does about any alleged academic failings. Op-ed.

UTJ leader:

Liberman wants core curriculum? He can't even say my name right

Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of Agudat Yisrael party, speaks out on claims that he will demand Finance Ministry after elections.

Labor leader: Haredi party head is destroying haredim's future

Yitzhak Goldknopf, head of haredi UTJ party, says studying math hasn't advanced Israel's economy.

Report: Likud promised UTJ NIS 3 billion for haredi schools

Netanyahu rumored to have promised to restore funding to levels prescribed by law.

Yeshiva dean: 'Anyone who doesn't vaccinate shouldn't teach'

Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky, dean of Ponovezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, speaks out harshly against teachers who refuse to receive vaccination.

Special budget to adapt distance learning for haredi schools

Education Ministry announces budget of 9m shekel to adapt distance learning for haredi schools.

Gideon Sa'ar: 'I cut funding for haredi schools'

'I'm not dependent on the haredi parties - PM Netanyahu is,' New Hope chairman Sa'ar brags.

'Haredi education system gets the crumbs'

'A haredi child in a Talmud Torah receives around 20% of the budget a secular child receives,' MK Yisrael Eichler says.

Jerusalem's haredi schools return to nearly normal functioning

Haredi schools in Jerusalem reopen fully - but not for all grades.

Shas MK: 'I'm haredi, but not like him'

Shas' MK Margi says Draft Law is to 'poke fingers into haredim's eyes,' his party sees the 'whole nation,' not just the haredi sector.

'Don't cooperate with the Education Ministry visits'

Directors of haredi school system urge school principals not to cooperate with inspections. 'System should remain independent.'

Education Ministry interfering in haredi school system?

Education Min. 'interfering' by conducting thorough 'calculated' inspections of haredi schools, teaching staff and materials, paper says.

'My children weren't accepted to school because they're black'

Black rapper who converted to Judaism and moved to Israel says haredi school refused to accept his children due to the color of their skin.

Switzerland: Haredi high school won't operate next year

Principal promises to close Zurich Jewish school after failing to meet standards for secular subjects.

Haredi rabbis push to drop complaint against violent teacher

Haredi student calls police, files complaint against teacher who hit him, but parents drop complaint under pressure from local rabbis.

Betsy DeVos under fire for choice of schools to visit

US Sec of State Betsy visits 2 Orthodox schools and no public ones in New York City trip.

Haredi school exams to be recognized by universities?

Education Ministry tells colleges, universities, to recognize teachers who passed haredi tests as holding high school diplomas.

'Some aspects of haredi education are a model for other systems'

Haredi textbooks in Israel promote insularity and peaceful coexistence, study finds.

England: Most Jews in haredi institutions

UK Education Minstry reports nearly 60% of Jewish students learn in haredi schools.