Agudath Israel of America

Advocacy effort has Jewish schools reaping hundreds of millions in gov’t money

Jewish day schools and yeshivas are organizing to become much more effective not only at accessing government money but in lobbying state government for more, corralling hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars. How much more can Jewish schools get?

By Uriel Heilman July 1, 2013 1:54 pm

House clears path for disaster funding for religious institutions

The U.S. House of Representatives easily passed legislation that makes clearer the eligibility of religious institutions for disaster relief.

February 13, 2013 9:25 pm

With poetry and scholarship, Daf Yomi Talmud study grows beyond Orthodox

The sold-out crowd of 90,000 at the Siyum HaShas celebration at MetLife Stadium was almost exclusively Orthodox, but Daf Yomi Talmud study is beginning to spread beyond the movement and in unorthodox ways.

August 2, 2012 3:54 pm