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A billboard by YAFFED in front of a yeshiva, asking parents to think about their sons secular education. Schools in the ultra-Orthodox community are virtually all segregated by sex. (Courtesy)
JTA Advocates for improving secular studies in Hasidic yeshivas are getting an assist from an unlikely place: the federal case of a Hasidic man who has pleaded guilty to laundering drug money.
Zalman Zirkind of Montreal, but currently on house arrest in Brooklyn, is due to be sentenced Friday in US District Court in New York. Last summer he pleaded guilty to charges that carry a possible sentence of 11 to 14 years in prison.