I’ve recently come to a shocking realization about American society. Over the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that it’s okay to hate Jews. I’m not talking about the abhorrent anti-Semitism of the “alt-right,” where wannabe politicians stoke the flames of bigotry just so that they can get the fleeting feeling of relevance….
A few weeks ago, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a lawsuit against the East Ramapo School District. It’s certainly not the first the embattled district has faced. The school board — made up of nine positions that residents of the district run for and vote for — has a significant quotient of…
State-appointed monitors assigned to the troubled East Ramapo School District in Rockland County, New York, issued a report today calling for $3 million in state aid to the district — and for continued on-the-ground monitoring next year. “The State has a duty not to turn its back on the children of East Ramapo and must…
An Orthodox-dominated public school board in Rockland County, New York, is facing a new round of protests this week after an elected non-Jewish board member’s term was sliced from two years to one. Nearly 100 protesters marched outside of an August 9 meeting of the East Ramapo School board, according to the Journal News, a…
A top official of a heavily Jewish New York City suburb was charged on Thursday with defrauding investors who helped finance a controversial minor league baseball stadium, in what authorities called the first criminal securities fraud prosecution involving municipal bonds. Christopher St. Lawrence, the elected supervisor of Ramapo, New York, was charged in an indictment…
A New York State panel recommended tighter control over an Orthodox-majority public school board in Rockland County whose budget cuts have provoked ire among public-school parents. The state-appointed monitors of the East Ramapo Central School District recommended in a report released Monday that the state authorize a monitor of the school board empowered veto board…
Parents and former students are suing four New York State yeshivas, the state and the local school district for not providing students with an adequate secular education. The class-action lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, The Journal News reported. The seven plaintiffs seek unspecified monetary damages and want the four all-boys…
The New York State Education Department appointed a panel to study the operations of the haredi Orthodox-controlled school board in the East Ramapo school district. The board in the school district, located in New York’s suburban Rockland County, has stirred controversy and local ire for its decisions over the years to significantly cut public school…
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