Haredi Schools

Haredi parties threaten not to support budget

The Knesset's haredi parties will not support the budget brought for a vote on Monday until the matter of haredi schools' funding is solved, the parties announce.

UTJ to boycott budget votes until school budgets resolved

United Torah Judaism party promises to boycott voting on budget unless haredi schools receive funding, promised reform.

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 true scope of secularism in Israeli religious school alumni

The widely cited figures of graduates of the religious education system who become secular are inflated, and stand at less than 20%.

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.

Haredi integration in higher education - the key to national stability

'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.

Court abolishes gender-separated course for haredim

Court rules that gender-separated Tourism Ministry courses are discriminatory.

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.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's daughter's college to close

Council for Higher Education cuts funding to haredi college founded by the daughter of Rabbi Yosef, citing low enrollment and budget issues.

‘Yeshiva Heads: You Hold Lives in Your Hands’

Call for extreme caution in yeshivas as Bnei Brak slaying is linked to expulsion.

Lapid Triumphant: Hareidi Schools to Teach ‘Core Curriculum’

Finance Minister says Shas schools will teach science, math, and English. ‘This is the key to a better life.’

Report: Hareidi-Religious Sector Establishes Own Student Union

Text messages sent to hundreds of students indicate formation of a hareidi Student Union; actual establishment unconfirmed.

Piron on Deri: A Simple Conversation Turned into a Storm

Education Minister stresses that the cut in funding of Shas's schools will happen when his public hareidi schools are established.

‘Forcing a Core Curriculum is Dangerous’

Senior educator warns that forcing a ‘core curriculum’ into hareidi-religious schools would threaten integration.

Rabbi Melamed: Don't Force Hareidim into Military

Dean of Beit El Yeshiva: financial sanctions and coerced enlistment will contribute nothing.

Hareidi Academicians Make Less than Secular Ones

Study shows that 47% of hareidi academicians make up to NIS 7,200 per month.

Israel Funding Islamic Movement Schools

An argument over core subjects in independent schools reveals that Israel is funding radical Islamic movement.

Rabbi Elyashiv Tells Hareidim: No to College, Army Programs

Renowned hareidi sage, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv reiterates traditional dictum against college and army programs for hareidi Jews.

Homegrown Enemies of Jewish Life

Amsalem Backs Work Force Plea

Rabbi Amsalem Backs Peres' Call on Haredim to Join Labor Force

Rabbi Haim Amsalem claimed that forcing the majority of students into a mold that did not fit was resulting in a major drop out rate.