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Fast Forward 2 students at LA Orthodox school accuse staff member of “inappropriate relationship”
YULA did not identify the faculty member, but said it was a female working at the boys campus
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Fast Forward New survey of Orthodox Jews shows vast differences in attitudes toward Zionism
'Has your approach to Zionism changed since Oct. 7?' surveyers asked
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Culture In a universe of rigid rules and unsanctioned passions, everyone’s a heretic
Jay Michaelson rewrote his debut short story collection — multiple times — before deciding it was ready to enter the world
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Fast Forward Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean who led Yeshiva U seminary through period of growth, dies at 94
Charlop once said that his ideal YU would be “a yeshiva like Volozhin,” a legendary seminary in what is now Belarus, and a university like Columbia
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News Orthodox Judaism has its first openly gay congregational rabbi. This is his story.
When a therapist proposed integrating his rabbinical and queer selves a few years ago, Rabbi Shua Brick just laughed
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Forverts in English VIDEO: What Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik said about Jews who become observant
The beloved Orthodox rabbi explains why a "baal teshuvah" stands on a higher spiritual level than a completely righteous Jew
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News Girls wore pants. Prayer was optional. Was this modern Orthodox school too open-minded for its own good?
The Idea School attracted queer students and others who appreciated its belief that students should pilot their own religious journeys
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Opinion What’s really at stake in the legal struggle between Yeshiva University and its LGBTQ+ students
YU claims to be fighting for religious liberty, despite considerable internal opposition to its legal offensive
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