This is the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
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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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News Meet the Jewish Transgender Reporter Ben Shapiro Mocked at Yeshiva U.
A Jewish transgender reporter who physically threatened conservative pundit Ben Shapiro on TV says Orthodox Jews are flirting with white nationalists. “The Jewish Orthodox community is playing footsie with the alt-right,” Zoey Tur told the Forward in an exclusive interview. Last July, Tur and Shapiro clashed on CNN’s Headline News over the rights of transgender…
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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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