NYC’s Hasidic Schools Deny Students Basic Education, Despite Being Flush With Gov Money - Report

Also-called “ultra-Orthodox” Jews, about 200,000 Hasidim live in New York, cloistered away in tightly-knit communities that effectively govern themselves. Their strict, religion-centered lifestyle is maintained by social isolation in an attempt to keep alive a way of life that was all but annihilated by the Nazi’s mass Judeocide.