Yeshiva University recognizes LGBTQ+ student group in landmark settlement
The settlement with the YU Pride Alliance — now called 'Hareni' under the settlement — ends litigation that lasted nearly four years
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Opinion A Deadly Plague of Shabbat Fires
The Sabbath fire that killed seven children in an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn on Saturday was at least the fourth deadly blaze in the borough resulting from Sabbath and holiday observance in the past 15 years. In all 11 people have been killed in the four fires, all but one of them children. At…
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News Yeshiva Alumni Angry Over Award for Jimmy Carter — Not Hershel Schachter
Yeshiva University finds itself immersed this spring in a tale of two honorees. One, a former president of the United States, is accused of anti-Israel bias. The other, a leading Y.U. rabbi, is accused of racism and a disregard for victims of child sex abuse. Hershel Schachter, the Y.U. rabbi in question, has also been…
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Opinion Cries From Within
Horace Mann. Poly Prep. Deerfield Academy. The scourge of sexual abuse has not bypassed some of the nation’s most exclusive names in education, as each of these schools now must confront charges of inappropriate, perhaps illegal, certainly immoral behavior by some of their teachers. Each case is different, of course, but the stories contain a…
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News Are New York Hospitals Hiding Herpes From Metzitzah B’Peh Circumcision Rite?
Are some New York City hospitals and the city’s Department of Health suppressing disclosure of cases in which a dangerous herpes virus is being transmitted by mohels to newborns? Representatives from New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center refused to respond to this allegation — made specifically about their own hospital — by a senior…
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Opinion As Yeshiva Child Sex Abuse Scandal Grows, Why Are We Afraid To Speak Out?
We in the Orthodox Jewish community claim to value children deeply. We want to have children, and we pressure our own children to get married and have children, and yet, when it comes to really ensuring those children’s utmost protection from harm, somehow the silence is deafening. As a Yeshiva University alumnus and a psychotherapist…
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News Yeshiva Rabbi Hershel Schachter Stirs Hornet’s Nest With Remarks ? Again
One of Yeshiva University?s leading rabbinic scholars is in trouble ? again ? after using a derogatory term to refer to African Americans and questioning whether child sex abuse allegations should be brought directly to police. Rabbi Hershel Schachter, regarded as one of America?s most influential Modern Orthodox rabbis, previously provoked ire for appearing to…
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Opinion ‘Shvartze’ and Why We Should Know Better
One day, as I was writing at my desk, the phone rang. From Washington, it was the leader of a Muslim civil-rights organization on the line. “Rabbi, one of the big airlines just threw a number of imams off the plane because some passengers thought they looked suspicious,” he told me. “We would like to…
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