The Sacred and the Secular: Ultra-Orthodox Boys’ Education in the U.S. | Policy Paper E14 | The Israel Democrary Institute

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The Sacred and the Secular: Ultra-Orthodox Boys’ Education in the U.S. | Policy Paper E14 | The Israel Democrary Institute

26 Jun 2022

This is the first comprehensive study of the ultra-Orthodox education system in the United States It describes the characteristics of the American Haredi Gilad Malach | Yair Ettinger community, the development of its educational institutions, and the changes Policy that have taken place over the years. [...] These steps led to the marginalization of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, which had been the dominant force in American Orthodoxy between the World Wars, and the final consolidation of two totally different branches of Orthodoxy: on one side, the ultra- Orthodox Agudath Israel; and on the other, the OU and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), which represented Jewish day schools and Modern Ortho. [...] The most important of the former is between the Hasidim and the Ashkenazi non-Hasidim (known as “Lithuanians” in Israel and “Yeshivish” in the United States). [...] The Yeshivish in the United States and the Lithuanians in Israel The differences between the “Lithuanians” in Israel and the “Yeshivish” in the United States far transcend the name, and include differences in language and culture, as well as a vast disparity in their involvement with society at large. [...] In the other direction, the “Torah of the Land of Israel” is influencing the ultra-Orthodox in America by injecting the ethos of protracted Torah study and the partial adoption of the model of the “society of scholars.” E14_F.indd 40 26/06/2022 13:36:04 41 Orthodox Jewish Education in the United States 1.

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