Tag: State

South Carolina Kicks Disney Right in the Teeth, Pulls Its State Funds

Walt Disney Studios marked its centennial anniversary this year. But instead of a celebration worthy of a century of bringing joy to children, the past 12 months have brought multiple box-office flops and disappointments. South Carolina State Treasurer Curtis Loftis believes the company is dealing with “structural rot,” which is causing it to turn away […]

State Treasurers Push Back on SEC’s Rushed Pro-ESG Policy

A letter from 21 state financial officials is urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to postpone a rule creating a new type of company designed for climate activists.  The state financial officers asked SEC Chairman Gary Gensler to extend the comment period from what they considered an unusually short 21 days to 60 days.  If […]

A British community under threat from the State – Part 5

Britain’s ultra Orthodox Haredi community is facing an existential crisis and threat. TCW writer Karen Harradine reached this conclusion following her visit to one of their schools and after interviewing its headmaster and Asher Gratt, the senior Rabbi in the community who first drew TCW’s attention to the impact of proposed schools legislation on the community. The previous parts, Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part […]

A British community under threat from the State – Part 4

Britain’s ultra Orthodox Haredi community is facing an existential crisis and threat. TCW writer Karen Harradine believes it to be serious and urgent, and one that cannot be overstated. In this series she explains the damaging impact that proposed government schools legislation would have on their independent faith-based yeshiva schools, destroying the ancient tradition of Torah education in this country. Part 1 is here, […]

A British community under threat from the State – Part 3

Britain’s ultra Orthodox Haredi community is facing an existential crisis and threat. TCW writer Karen Harradine believes it to be serious and urgent, and one that cannot be overstated. In Parts I (here) and 2 (here) of this series she explains the damaging impact that proposed government schools legislation would have on their independent faith-based yeshiva schools, destroying the ancient tradition of Torah education in […]

A British community under threat from the State – Part 2

In yesterday’s Part 1 of this series Karen Harradine explained why she has come to write about Britain’s ultra Orthodox Haredi community which she believes is facing an existential crisis and threat so serious and urgent it cannot be overstated.  Rabbi Asher Gratt: ‘We live for our children. Our whole life is dedicated for our children.’ THERE are an estimated 271,000 […]

A British community under threat from the State – Part 1

BRITAIN’S 80,000 ultra-orthodox Haredi Jewish community are facing an existential crisis and threat which cannot be overstated.  In March, the Times ran a damning ‘investigation’ into ‘Hasidic’ boys’ schools, more correctly known as yeshivas, claiming these schools left ‘Jewish pupils barely able to read or write English’.  It gave such a distorted and biased account that, according to Rabbi […]