Daily Podcasts Video Research

Hasidic boys like mine don't receive the education they deserve

JL;DR SUMMARY Beatrice Weber shares her compelling journey advocating for proper secular education for Hasidic boys, challenging the status quo within her community. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

JL;DR members get full summaries of all articles in the archive, including this one. Donate & start reading »

Tags

EducationNew YorkSecular StudiesHasidicEducational NeglectCultural ConflictCourt RulingCommunity PressureParental Advocacy

Places mentioned

Brooklyn, New York, United States
"A Hasidic man walks through a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images"

Support this source

This item was indexed and curated by Cairo, JL;DR's web crawler.
Cairo Item ID 61920
Cairo Source ID 35
Retrieved 2025-09-19 05:31:19 UTC
Curated 2025-09-19 08:32:39 UTC