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
