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Eric Adams, one of the leading candidates running to be mayor of New York City toured a Brooklyn yeshiva on Monday that had been on a list of schools subject to investigation over adequate secular education standards and came away with a positive impression. ”I was really impressed by what I saw,” Adams told the Forward on Monday night. “Watching those children understand grammar, understand English, saying they like writing and reading, it was amazing.” Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, declined to identify the yeshiva, which was in the Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park. ...

(Lucas Jackson/Reuters) New polling suggests that beleaguered New York governor Andrew Cuomo could be a drag on New York Democrats in 2022 if he remains in office. Cuomo, whose administration is in the midst of at least three federal probes into its handling of nursing homes during COVID-19 and who is himself facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment, has so far refused to leave office. Advertisement “No, there is no way I resign,” Cuomo said Monday, even after New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Democrat, called for him to leave office. On Monday, New ...

Community By Reuvain Borchardt Updated Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 9:30 pm NEW YORK - Updated Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 9:30 pm An executive at a voter- and government-reform organization who referred to the Orthodox Jewish community in New York City as “an extremist bloc” due to its support for yeshiva independence, has apologized and said her comments were taken out of context, more than a week after doubling down on remarks for which she received sharp criticism. “I apologize for causing anyone offense when words I used imprecisely were taken out of context,” Susan Lerner, exe...

Harsh words exchanged over issues involving yeshiva education.