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The article reports on the students of the Yeshiva University High School for Boys in New York. It states the Lions' Den gymnasium of the school which serves as home to the high school's floor hockey team Lions. Also emphasized is the competition among Orthodox Jewish private schools in the floor hockey championships.

The article reports on the top lawmakers who accused Senator Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, of holding the $168 billion budget hostage, hoping that the state will agree not to interfere with the curriculum at the private Jewish schools known as yeshivas. It states that critics are accusing the school of not teaching students the basic command of English, math, history or science and rather focused on the study of traditional Jewish texts.

The article reports on the demonstration by activists from the Young Advocates for Fair Education accusing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his schools chancellor Carmen Fariña of educational neglect for failing to investigate yeshivas attended by tens of thousands of Hassidic children.

The article reports on the interfaith walk for peace organized in collaboration with Jewish Lance Laver and retired priest Reverend Frank Toia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania following the tradition of spiritual learning lead by rabbi Yael Levy.

The article reports that Governor Andrew M. Cuomo of New York state has accused the president of the East Ramapo school board, Yehuda Weissmandl for sending the children to private yeshivas wherein they were starving the public schools in Rockland County, New York state.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Members of Jewish Student Group Test Permissible Discussion on Israel" in the December 30, 2013 issue, "Cull of the Wild" in the December 31, 2013 issues and "New Victories for Marriage Equality" in the December 27, 2013 issue.

The state budget plan that moved toward enactment on Wednesday calls for 10 percent cuts in aid to public colleges and universities, but it would add about $18 million a year in tuition assistance for students attending some private religious schools. The added money would be available to any theological student who met a new set of criteria for the state's so-called Tuition Assistance Program grants. The major potential beneficiaries would be an estimated 5,000 men who attend dozens of Orthodox rabbinical schools in New York, state officials and religious leaders said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The nation's top high school mock trial competition has become an actual legal battleground. Earlier this spring, the Maimonides School, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Brookline, Mass., won the state mock trial championship -- and with it a coveted spot in the prestigious national competition in Atlanta this weekend. But the finals of the tournament fall on Saturday, and the students do not compete on the Sabbath. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THERE have been few odder matchups in Westchester than the dude ranch here that for two decades has been the home of an Orthodox yeshiva. Teenage boys and young men spending dawn to midnight plumbing the labyrinthine arguments of the Talmud have spent nights sleeping in Western-style low-slung buildings called Dodge City and Dallas. It seems like a scene Mel Brooks might have cut out of ''Blazing Saddles.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the Ben Gamla Charter School in Hollywood, Florida, which was temporarily stopped on concerns over instilling Jewish faith in students, has been allowed to resume teaching in Hebrew. It is noted that the school district will work with the school to create training programs to ensure that the church and the state stay separate.

The article offers information on the Jewish Theological Seminar (JTS) in the U.S. declaring that they will openly accept the entry of gay and lesbian candidates into its rabbinical and cantorial schools. According to Eytan Hammerman, a heterosexual rabbinical student at the JTS and a member a campus gar right group, the decision taken by JTS will strengthen the conservative movement. It has been stated that the decision has spread immense happiness among the gay and lesbian communities.

Focuses on Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a small rabbinical school within an Upper West Side Jewish high school in New York City. Background on the school, which will ordain its first class of Orthodox rabbis in June 2004; Comments of the new yeshiva's founder, Rabbi Avi Weiss; Doubts of officials at Yeshiva University about the quality of rabbis who will come out of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah; Discussion of Jewish Orthodoxy; Reasons for the conservatism of many modern Orthodox rabbis; Employment prospects; Background on the school, which plans to build a new building.

Reports on the visitation of a delegation of Roman Catholic cardinals at Yeshiva University in Manhattan, New York City. Enhancement of the Jewish-Catholic ties; Discussion of writings on the relationship between corporal and capital punishment; Establishment of relationships and familiarity.

Reports on the efforts of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, a songwriter in contemporary Judaism, to spread Jewish awareness. Death on October 20, 1994; Congregation at his synagogue Kehilath Jacob.

Provides information on the efforts of Jewish women to pursue advanced Jewish studies. Study of areas hitherto limited to men; Reason for the trend; Reaction of women regarding religious study.