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Dozens Of Hasidic Kids Not Enrolled In School Because Rabbis Are Blocking Yeshiva Placements To Hurt Parents, Activist Alleges
There are allegedly at least 40 hasidic kids between the ages of six and 12 living in Williamsburg and Borough Park, Brooklyn who don’t have a yeshiva to go to because rabbis are using yeshiva placement as a club to punish the kids’ families – sometimes allegedly because a family complained about child sexual abuse or reported abuse to police.
There are allegedly at least 40 hasidic kids between the ages of six and 12 living in Williamsburg and Borough Park, Brooklyn who don’t have a yeshiva to go to because rabbis are using yeshiva placement as a club to punish the kids’ families.
Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg told me tonight that he personally knows of 40 such kids and that there are likely many more.
According to what I’ve heard, the city knows this. (It may not know the exact numbers, but it knows it is happening.) And likely the state knows, as well. But they allegedly aren’t willing to cross the large hasidic bloc vote, and these kids are simply not being educated.
A parent I was told about enrolled her child in a public school after the yeshiva the child had previously attended would not take him back. The public school was shocked to see that an 8-year-old didn’t even know the letters of the alphabet because he hadn’t really been taught them in yeshiva. The child had no mental illness, no learning disabilities and doesn’t have ADHD. When the yeshivas realized how dangerous this situation could be for them, the child suddenly got a yeshiva placement.
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