Ivory Tower Weighs In on Jewish Study Halls

Court filings show a battle brewing between different departments at Columbia University with regard to new regulations on New York’s yeshivas.

AP/Mark Lennihan, file
The Young Israel of Flatbush yeshiva at Brooklyn, New York, in 2018. AP/Mark Lennihan, file

At Brooklyn, Albany, and Morningside Heights, a clash is brewing between opponents of and supporters of the rights of yeshivas to educate children in accordance with what many Orthodox Jews see as the dictates of their faith.

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