Leading Hasidic Rabbi Defies New York Regulations On Yeshiva Curriculum

As previously reported, last month the New York State Education Department issued new guidelines for review of the curriculum of non-public religious and independent schools, under statutory provisions that primarily impact Hasidic Jewish yeshivas. The Forward reported last week that a leading Hasidic rabbi, Satmar Rebbe Aron Teitelbaum, is defying the New York City and New York State Education Departments, telling his followers in a speech:

We will not comply and we will not follow the state education commissioner under any circumstances. These are our words for the state education commissioner.