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Policy Paper 163 | Torah Learning and Secular Studiesiv In recent years, however, there has been a major effort by the State of New York, where most American Hassidim live, to upgrade secular studies in Hassidic schools . The differences between the schools of the Yeshivish sectors in the two countries are greater : those in the United States devote more hours to teaching secular studies than their counterparts in Israel do, and for more years . We discovered, though, that there has been a decrease in the number of pupils from this group who have broad exposure to secular subjects, especially as a result of the Ultra - Orthodox “emigration” from New York to Lakewood, New Jersey, where the curriculum of the schools affiliated with the flagship Beth Medrash Govoha ( the second - largest in the world ) devotes less time to secular studies . Still, in New York itself, and in other Yeshivish communities in the United States, there has not been an appreciable decline in secular studies in re...
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