Are the Haredi Yeshivas Failing?
New documentary on the adequacy of secular education at New York’s yeshivas leaves little doubt where it stands on the contentious issue.
A new documentary on the adequacy of secular education at New York’s yeshivas is debuting just four months after what its director called the “disastrous defeat” of state efforts to exercise oversight on the religious schools that serve tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox children. Unorthodox Education begins a two-week run at Cinema Village in Manhattan on Sep. 19. The 40-minute film leaves little doubt where it stands on the contentious issue.
“It was outrageous to me that this was going on in America and nobody seemed to know about it,” director Joe Kolman told me.
Read the full story in The Forward: https://forward.com/culture/769996/hasidic-education-system-documentary-orthodox/
