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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Eliminated From NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament
(JTA) — Yeshiva University was eliminated from the NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament with an 81-67 opening-round loss to host York College of Pennsylvania. The Maccabees, who were making their first appearance in the national tournament, finished their season with a record of 18-11. Gabriel Leifer, a 6-5 forward from Lawrence, New York, led…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Basketball Team Won’t Play On Shabbat At March Madness
(JTA) — The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team won’t have to worry about playing on Shabbat in the opening round of the NCAA Division III tournament. The team announced Tuesday in a post on its Facebook page that its game against York College in Pennsylvania will take place at 1 p.m. Friday. The original schedule…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva U Basketball Team Will Play In March Madness For The First Time Ever
(JTA) — The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team has earned its first berth in the NCAA Division III basketball tournament in program history. The Maccabees on Sunday defeated Purchase College, 87-81, to win the Skyline Conference championship and earned automatic qualification into the tournament. “There is nothing much to say. We are champs,” Yeshiva University…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Professor Denounced For Criticizing Trump’s Jerusalem Decision
A professor at Yeshiva University is being denounced for signing a statement criticizing President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Jess Olson was one of more than 170 Jewish Studies professors across the country who signed a petition earlier this month expressing dismay at Trump’s move. The petition states that the announcement that…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Students To Be Fined $150 For Skipping Prayers
(JTA) — Male students who violate the rules of a coed shabbaton at Yeshiva University will now be fined $150. The Office of Student Life at the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy instituted the fine for violations of the rules that the male students sign in an agreement before the start of the shabbaton, a…
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Life Yeshiva University Democrats Find Their Voice — On Conservative Campus
Until Donald Trump’s election one year ago, less than eight students at Yeshiva University would attend the events organized by the school’s Democrats club. Little did they know that just a couple of months after November 8, the club would grow significantly, reaching its peak of 50 active members this year. Matthew Haller, 20, and…
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Fast Forward Founding Rabbi Retires From Yeshiva That Trains Female Religious Judges
A prominent Modern Orthodox rabbi is retiring from the Israeli religious school network he founded that broke new ground in the religious education of Jewish women. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is stepping down as chancellor of the Ohr Torah Stone network, which he founded when he moved to Israel in 1983. Riskin, 77, will be replaced…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University To Provide Free Tampons And Pads To Students
Over 85% of women have started their period unexpectedly while in public without any feminine hygiene products on hand — and thanks to recent student activism, students at Yeshiva University will no longer have to worry about dealing with such a dilemma on campus. YU student Yardena Katz wrote in February for the campus newspaper…
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