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Fast Forward Y.U. To Issue Mass Layoff Warnings to Einstein Med School Staff
More than 2,500 employees at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine will soon get notices from the school warning that they could be laid off this summer. The notices are being prepared as YU gets set to transfer much of its control over the medical school to Montefiore Health System. It is unclear how…
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Opinion A Deadly Plague of Shabbat Fires
The Sabbath fire that killed seven children in an Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn on Saturday was at least the fourth deadly blaze in the borough resulting from Sabbath and holiday observance in the past 15 years. In all 11 people have been killed in the four fires, all but one of them children. At…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva Revives Deal To Offload Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University has revived a deal to offload its costly medical school. Students learned today that Montefiore Health System is close to finalizing the on-again off-gain agreement take over the operations and financial responsibility for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Einstein’s dean, Allen Spiegel, told 200 students a rally on Tuesday morning that the…
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Israel News Israel’s Lone Soldier Center Severs Ties With Rabbi George Finkelstein
The Lone Soldier Center, which looks after isolated young people serving in the Israel Defense Forces, has severed ties with a rabbi accused of inappropriate behavior with boys and young men. The center acted weeks after the Forward began making inquiries about Rabbi George Finkelstein’s involvement with the group. In an email to a Lone…
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News Yeshiva U. Reports First Sexual Assault On Campus in 12 Years — But Says Little Else
For the first time in 12 years, Yeshiva University has reported a sexual assault on campus. Reporting such a crime might seem a breakthrough for the university, which has been accused of covering up abuse in the past, but the school still refuses to say how it investigates student allegations of sexual assault. Nor will…
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Opinion Meet the Female Coach of Y.U. Men’s Volleyball Team
Jacqui Dauphinais / JTA (JTA) — Having been a standout player in high school and college, and an assistant coach, new Yeshiva University men’s volleyball coach Jacqui Dauphinais has plenty of knowledge about the sport. And in her one season as an assistant for the Maccabees, she showed she wasn’t afraid to speak up. The real…
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News Yeshiva University Victims Appeal Over Heads of Appeals Court Panel
A group of former students who say they were sexually abused at Yeshiva University High School for Boys have asked a full federal appeals court to reconsider a smaller judicial panel’s ruling that upheld the dismissal of their lawsuit. The students’ attorney, Kevin Mulhearn, submitted a petition September 8 calling for an en banc, or…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Students Lose Appeal in $680 Million Abuse Case
Thirty-four former students have lost their appeal of a judge’s decision to dismiss their $680 million lawsuit against Yeshiva University. A three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled today that the students waited decades too long to file claims that they were abused during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s at a Y.U.-run boys high school. Under…
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