September 15, 2026
The schools appear to have been careful not to refer to the event as a “protest,” describing it in their communications as a “communal prayer” and a “student-led communal Shacharit.” Their messaging about the reason for the demonstration, too, has been vague. The emails viewed by Jewish Currents do not mention Mamdani’s criticism of Israel or his condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two major points of tension between the mayor and the Jewish establishment.
Despite the cautious tone, it is hard to read this mustering of day-school students outside Gracie Mansion as anything other than an act of protest against Mamdani, and an implicit charge that he poses a particular threat to observant Jews in the city. “It is time for us to stand up and be heard,” the email to Ramaz parents read. “It is time to show up proudly as Jews, as New Yorkers, and as Zionists.”
There was a wave of stories and reports a few years ago that many kids coming out of the yeshivas couldn’t read or write English., didn’t know BASIC science and math, or really anything necessary for life. This was in NYC and the metro area
Oh, they also get public funding. Although in 2025 NY pulled their funding for being so far behind the average (already behind) American public school student.
this us a huge problem with most private schools in the south too, the exist to indoctrinate and everything else falls by the wayside, if not viewed as counter productive.