89. How Yeshiva Schools Avoid Secular Education (with Matty Lichtenstein)

Dec 8, 2022 · 51m 45s
89. How Yeshiva Schools Avoid Secular Education (with Matty Lichtenstein)
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This week: It’s time to revisit the story of hasidic yeshiva schools in New York City having poor secular education. After all, it’s important not just to understand what is...

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This week: It’s time to revisit the story of hasidic yeshiva schools in New York City having poor secular education. After all, it’s important not just to understand what is happening, but why and how things came to be this way. So I talk to sociologist Matty Lichtenstein about her research on hasidic yeshiva advocacy.

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Lichtenstein's work: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~mlicht/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Lichtenstein-Legitimizing-Tactics-2022.pdf

https://www.jta.org/2022/09/14/opinion/i-studied-how-new-york-citys-hasidic-yeshivas-gained-legitimacy-heres-what-i-learned

https://watson.brown.edu/people/poctdocs/lichtenstein

Yaffed: https://yaffed.org/

The NYT story: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/nyregion/hasidic-yeshivas-schools-new-york.html

Update on NYS education rules: https://www.jta.org/2022/09/12/ny/new-york-finalizes-rules-requiring-private-schools-including-yeshivas-to-prove-they-meet-standards

Orthodox economy: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-orthodox-jews

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/nyregion/hasidic-jews-amazon.html

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hpQpXfCzcaL5PscDzKXXFLJ6UFHaPe7Qv6eS51Axedc/edit?usp=sharing
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