The New York Times took the rare step of translating its investigation of Hasidic yeshivas into Yiddish by The New York Times By Rukhl Schaechter September 12, 2022 Sunday’s groundbreaking New York Times article about the dismal state of secular education in the Hasidic yeshivas in Brooklyn and the lower Hudson Valley elicited much heated discussion on social media. But it also drew interest for a very different reason: the investigation was published online in Yiddish as well. Yiddish is the everyday language of around 700,000 Hasidic Jews globally, including large communities in New York, London, Antwerp, Jerusalem and Bnei...