More than 63,000 have already arrived, with another 20,000 on the way
That is a significant number for a state regulation. In comparison, a bitterly contested rule by the Cuomo administration to allow hydraulic fracking in 2011 garnered 66,000 signatures and convinced the governor to abandon the effort.
Aron Weider, a legislator in Rockland County, plans to drive to Albany on Tuesday to personally deliver his letter to the education department — along with 20,000 others.
Weider has taken a keen personal interest in the fate of yeshivah education in New York and the state’s proposal to add several more hours of secular education per day. Last week, he crashed the press conference of YAFFED, the anti-yeshivah organization led by Naftali Moster. Though Moster has claimed that a “silent majority” supports his work, over the last five years, only five or six supporters have regularly attended his public events, which the media has regularly covered.
On Friday morning, Wieder, who was once a classmate of Moster’s at Boro Park’s Belzer yeshivah, showed up at the latter’s Rockland County press conference to demonstrate that there are two sides to this very volatile issue.
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