Miriam Moster

Miriam Moster is the executive director of YAFFED: Young Advocates for Fair Education, which works to improve general education curricula in ultra-Orthodox schools. She is also a writer and expects to receive her MFA in June from Hunter College, where she currently teaches creative writing.

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

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Eyes on Jewish Education, Beyond East Ramapo — Why We Need More than Oversight as Schools Under Hasidic Control Fail NY Children

When Cosmos debuted, my husband was in awe. He had taken a biology course as an undergraduate, but that had been his first and only encounter with science. Newton, physics, history of science, evolution — none of those had existed for him before the age of 21. He had attended Belz Yeshiva — first in Brooklyn’s Borough Park, then in Israel. Read More

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