This is the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Wins Credit Upgrade With New President
Yeshiva University received some positive financial news as the school prepares for new president Ari Berman to take the helm, with the Moody’s credit agency upgrading the institution’s financial outlook from “negative” to “stable.” The university will “execute its plans and reach financially sustainable operations,” wrote the company, according to a report in the Commentator,…
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Fast Forward Anti-Gay Westboro Baptist To Protest ‘Perverse’ Yeshiva University
After a demonstration at Shalhevet High School outside of Los Angeles this week, the infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that it will hold a protest at Yeshiva University at the end of March. The group says Y.U. “encapsulates the perverse state” of American Jewry. Shalhevet High School was a wonderful success —…
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Fast Forward YU Student Facebook Page Exposes Misogynist, Bigoted Comments At Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University men beware: What’s said on your campus might not stay there. Since November, a student at the university, one of Orthodoxy’s flagship institutions, has been using a Facebook page to document incidents of racism, misogyny and homophobia on the New York City campus. Or, as the page puts it: “real things said by…
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Fast Forward New YU Feminism Club’s First Billboard Torn Down After Just Hours
The newly formed Yeshiva University Feminism Club’s first bulletin board display was ripped down about an hour after it was put up. “It didn’t take very long. We’re disappointed, but unfortunately, not surprised,” the club wrote on Facebook on February 16. The display in consisted of quotes taken from the Facebook page “A YU Bochur…
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Community Soon by Me? No Thanks.
It happened slowly. First I was cutting my black hair into short punk-esque styles and rocking out at secular concerts. Then I was wearing more revealing clothing when costumes were the theme of the day. Every so often I would post short clips of me belting songs at karaoke or drinking with friends. It felt…
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Fast Forward Is Yeshiva University Criticizing Trump’s Immigration Ban?
Yeshiva University, the flagship educational institution of Modern Orthodox Judaism, issued a statement Monday that appeared to criticize President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. “There is continuing turmoil regarding US immigration policy,” said YU president Richard Joel in the statement. “Yeshiva University is unwavering in its support of religious…
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News Yeshiva U. Students Demand Transparency from Secretive Trustees
Yeshiva University’s student newspaper issued a challenge to the school’s board of trustees in an editorial this week, demanding transparency and accountability from the powerful body. In a measured but firm editorial, The Commentator’s editor-in-chief, Doron Levine, called on the Yeshiva University trustees to lift the veil of secrecy around its bylaws, and to be…
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Fast Forward Ben Shapiro: Yeshiva University Just Using Me To Look Righteous
Ben Shapiro hit back at the faculty of Yeshiva University, blasting them after more than two dozen professors — including University President Richard Joel — criticized the rightwing pundit’s comments about transgender people at a speech on campus hosted last week. “The real reason that Y.U. condemned me is that it’s very rare that a Modern Orthodox…
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