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“Schechter Manhattan will be planning and working towards joining forces with Rodeph Sholom School as of July 1, 2024, thereby ceasing operations as an independent entity on June 30, 2024”

JTA Facing declining enrollment, Schechter Manhattan to shutter at end of school year Ben Sales October 3, 2023 Schechter Manhattan, a Conservative Jewish elementary and middle school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, will close at the end of the school … Continue reading

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“In Elul, our biggest concerns should be goiing back to school, menus and guest lists, not fear and hiding a Star of David necklace”

ARUTZ SHEVA I’m afraid to walk to shul in NYC Cindy Grosz September 5, 2022 I get some interesting requests. Several weeks ago, I received a phone call from a friend’s acquaintance who lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a … Continue reading

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Student subject of anti-Semitic bullying, forced to transfer from Manhattan public school

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS School bullying of another kind: Political correctness fuels nastiness at Beacon High School by Marco Greenberg September 8, 2016 “You say that in front of people of color,” a fellow student challenged my daughter in the … Continue reading

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Brooklyn: Muslim woman comes to defense of attacked Orthodox Jew

JP UPDATE NYPD: Jewish Student Assaulted in Apparent Hate Crime Inside A College by Mark Hirshberg December 23, 2015 A 24-year-old Jewish man a student at the Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn was assaulted Wednesday evening inside the college. The … Continue reading

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Should N.Y. Orthodox students hide their kippot on the way to school?

HAARETZ by Uriel Heilman September 2, 2014 After a Jewish couple was attacked by purported pro-Palestinian supporters, a controversy broke up when Manhattan’s premier Orthodox school suggested students wear baseball caps when walking around the neighborhood. JTA – When Rabbi … Continue reading

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