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Opinion This Transgender Rabbi Is Standing Up to Ben Shapiro’s Hateful Rhetoric
Right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro, speaking at Yeshiva University on Monday night, declared that “transgender people are unfortunately suffering from a significant mental illness” and that “Torah Judaism does not support social justice.” In the same breath, he delivered his views on how to be a mensch. As a transgender rabbi, a Jewish educator and an…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva U. Students Slam Ben Shapiro for Calling Transgender People ‘Mentally Ill’
Ben Shapiro’s speech at Yeshiva University in which he called transgender people mentally ill and mocked the political left drew strong criticism from some students. While many in the crowd at Monday night’s event cheered the right-wing pundit’s barbs, others said that his remarks left a bad taste in their mouth — and reflected poorly…
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Fast Forward Ben Shapiro Tells Yeshiva U. Students Being Transgender Is ‘Mental Illness’
Ben Shapiro, the 32-year-old right-wing pundit and leading target of online anti-Semites, won over a crowd of mostly Orthodox students at Yeshiva University with jabs at transgender people, liberals and non-Orthodox Jews. Shapiro spoke of the importance of being a mensch, but was less kind when it came to describing his televised encounter with a…
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Opinion Don’t Let Islamophobia Into Yeshiva University Along With New President
As an alumnus of Yeshiva University, I am concerned by the news that the school’s search committee has now chosen a new president to lead Modern Orthodoxy’s flagship institution. The committee’s choice is Rabbi Ari Berman, an Orthodox rabbi who until recently has been living in Israel. Particularly worrisome to me are a couple of…
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News Can New President Ari Berman Save Yeshiva University?
Yeshiva University is holding its breath. Next week, the 130-year-old institution will meet the rabbi chosen to try to drag it out of its deepening financial morass. The encounter comes as the future of the troubled university remains very much uncertain. A board committee has picked Rabbi Ari Berman, 47, a former Upper West Side…
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Opinion Money Smarts Isn’t the Most Important Quality for Yeshiva U.’s Next President
The Jewish community has been abuzz this past week with news that Yeshiva University’s search committee selected Rabbi Ari Berman as its top choice to become Y.U.’s next president. As the committee’s press release noted, Berman has the Modern Orthodox and Y.U. pedigree you would expect of the university’s next leader; he was rabbi of…
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Opinion Yeshiva U.’s Likely New President Will Keep School on Track — Toward Financial Ruin
If you’re about to apply for college starting in the fall, will your school of choice still be around to confer a diploma in four years’ time? Students considering applying to Yeshiva University for admission next year may want to think long and hard about that question. Here are a few sample headlines about the…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva U. To Create New Professional School After $25 Million Gift
Yeshiva University is establishing a new graduate program, the Katz School of Graduate and Professional Studies, with a $25 million gift. The donation from Mordecai and Monique Katz was announced by Yeshiva on Monday. The Katz School will offer degrees in fields such as marketing, allied health, community education, data science and cyber security. Programs…
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