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Category Archives: YULA
Report: YULA Sued for Sexual Abuse of Student by Former Director of Academic Support, Julie Tichon, Who Pleaded No Contest to Sexual Abuse of Two Students in Criminal Case
Zaakah posts May 11, 2026: In May of 2024 YULA High School for Boys, a Los Angeles based Orthodox boys high school, sent a letter to its parent body informing them that a teacher had been fired for engaging in … Continue reading
Forward: LA Orthodox school’s former guidance counselor will avoid jail time in sex abuse case
Louis Keene writes: An Orthodox Jewish high school’s former director of academic support will avoid jail after pleading no contest Thursday to sexual abuse charges involving a student in her charge at the school’s boys’ division. Julie Tichon, 38, was … Continue reading
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Decoding YULA Girls High School
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, YULA Girls is best understood as a status-sensitive retention institution whose primary task is to keep Orthodox female identity intact while operating under unusually strong external prestige and moral pressure. The alliance problem YULA Girls … Continue reading
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Decoding YULA Boys High School
ChatGPT says: Through Alliance Theory, YULA Boys is best understood as a defensive consolidation institution whose primary task is to thicken Orthodox male identity in a social environment that constantly pulls toward dilution. YULA’s core problem is not exposure to … Continue reading
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YULA Boys Guidance Counselor Julie Tichon Slept With Boys Say Police
KTLA reports Sep. 24: Police are looking for possible other victims of a high school counselor in West Los Angeles who is accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy. Julie Tichon, 37, committed a “series of sexual assaults” against the … Continue reading
Yeshiva Of Los Angeles Girls High School Salaries
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2012, which listed salaries as follows: * Abraham Lieberman: $178,000 * Barbara Drebin: $150,106 Yeshiva of Los Angeles lists: * Susan Burden: $229,052 (23 hours a week) * Marvin … Continue reading
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Yeshiva University Of Los Angeles Boys High School Salaries
I went to Guidestar.org and found this 990 form filed for 2012, which listed salaries as follows: Sherrie Singer (General Studies): $135,000
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Janice Dickinson Supports YULA Student Council Hopeful!
Watch the TMZ video.
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YULA Fires Three Veteran Teachers
Here’s a Facebook group that has sprung up to protest this firing. Teacher Manny Katz writes: To my present and former students, You may have heard that I am leaving YULA. The truth is that I have been fired for … Continue reading
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YULA Firings
I hear: YULA has fired three teachers whose years of affiliation with the school total about a century: Mrs. Carol Bess Mr. Manny Katz (married the non-Jewish Spanish teacher about 15 years ago and she was forced to leave YULA) … Continue reading
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