By: charliehall

charliehall — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:26:37 +0000

Eric Schneiderman is my state senator. He is running for Attorney General. This may just have won him my vote!

By: askan

askan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:32:42 +0000

Akuperma apparently has the magical powers to interpret why our long suffering Rabbinical colleges and students have finally been given- equal status under the law. Your conjecture is way off base and totally inaccurate. Your unwillingness and inability to look at a box and see it as a box and not something more devious is tiresome.
The facts do not seem to count with you as long as your agenda is served.Clearly your not interested in reading the truth and accepting the facts behind the creation of this very important legislation for our community.That Albany is a mess is not our doing. That spending is out of control is not our doing. That there is a need to cut out all wasteful spending is also not being blocked by us. I am a tax payer. I pay home , personel, business and corp tax to the state of NY. My children DO NOT take any scholarships from the state or fed. ZERO. My children are not in Bais Medrash but my friends and community have every right and expectation to receive the same opportinities that city college offers to any college student if they choose to send their children to chaim berlin , mir, tv, etc for their higher education. I dont say so, the Federal government says so.
This bill while helping our students, also serves all New Yorkers of all ethnicity’s in Religiously accredited colleges for the first time. What must be recognized in this conversation is that while society’s commitment to the pursuit of higher education has always been a funding priority, our Rabbinical colleges were not given equal recognition when it came to scholarship opportunities like TAP. Rabbinical colleges under the federal law had received that proper recognition “PELL grants” but the state did not accept this- until this bill. Because of lawful, responsible, and sensible advocacy by Agudath Israel and several dedicated askonim and leaders mentioned above, the state has now corrected this glaring inequality. To define is at anything less than legitimate school tuition assistance, available to all qualifying college students is ignorant and im afraid to say prejudiced. This is a groundbreaking initiative and one that should be recognized for the historic nature that it is. Even by you Akuperma.

By: yosse

yosse — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:58:32 +0000

mabey dov with his integrity can get the state to pay for the english depatments in our yeshiva’s

By: akuperma

akuperma — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:59:41 +0000

It would be nice if this represented a realization that talmudic studies deserve the same degree of support as those studying philsophy or literature in the universities.
Actually, it is a payoff to reward the frum community for raising no more than token objections to a variety of ill advised, if not totally perverse, as well as fiscally irresponsible policies.

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