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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.

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