How a Precedent Won for the Amish Could Protect Chasidic Jews

New York has launched a campaign intended to regulate the religious free exercise of chasidic yeshivas and establish that state education mandates outrank America’s Bill of Rights.

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Amish children, accompanied by an adult, on their way to school at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, in 2007. AP/Matt Rourke

The chasidic community in New York is weighing its options in the wake of the decision of the state Regents to try to enforce in even the most fundamentalist of the state’s yeshivas rules requiring them to teach profane subjects. That’s the word from Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein, who scooped the New York  Times on its own investigation of the yeshivas. The Regents just voted unanimously to move against the schools.

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