Yeshiva Students Speak Out
No Longer Silenced
For years, educational neglect in Haredi Jewish yeshivas has been ignored. The victims of the neglect, the students, have been silenced. No longer.
Learn more about the students themselves below, and read our report about the poor educational standards these students have to endure by clicking the button below.
By the numbers
99%
Failure rate on standardized tests in Hasidic yeshivas
50,000+
Students affected per year
$375 million
In government funding given to failing schools every year
What the students are saying
Ari Hershkowitz
“I left school when I was 18. After I was 18, and I do not have a high school diploma or even the knowledge that a high school diploma comes with.”
“The attitude was constantly that you could get hit. We were constantly under threat of that.”
Chaim Levin
“You have kids right now who are not learning a word of English, not math, not science, not history, not geography. It’s a catastrophe.”
Chaim Fishman
“Most of my teachers barely knew the subjects they were supposed to teach because they had had the same education offered to us.”
Learn more about their stories and join us in the fight:
In their own words
The Disastrous Reality
In the news
In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush With Public Money
— The New York Times
The Fight to Make Sure Yeshiva Schools Provide a Secular Education, Too
— New York Magazine
My early yeshiva education was an institutional betrayal
— Times of Israel
