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Life Under Pressure, YU Site Pulls Sex Column
UPDATE: December 8, 12 p.m.: Following a meeting with school administrators, YU Beacon has restored the column to its site. A Beacon editor is telling New Voices that the publication will no longer be subsidized by the university. Sure, sex columns are staples in college newspapers — spaces where student scribes describe, often in lascivious…
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The Schmooze After Ten Years, a Jewish Poetry Journal Bids Farewell
Those of us who have participated in the Jewish poetry scene in New York City over the last decade might argue that the journal Mima’amakim invented it. Though Jewish women and men have been performing and publishing poetry for many decades as part of a thriving New York poetry scene, Mima’amakim established the first readings…
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The Schmooze The Yeshiva University Professor Who Secured U.S. Residency for John Lennon
All you need is love, but sometimes a good immigration lawyer is also helpful. That’s what the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is reminding people today, the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. Like countless Jews before him, the former Beatle faced resistance to his efforts to gain U.S. residency — though in his case the…
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The Schmooze Dreidel Record Shattered With 618 Spinning Tops
The dreidel will rock! Students at Yeshiva University crowded a gymnasium last night to break the world record for the largest number of people spinning dreidels at one time. An astounding 618 to be exact, easily top-pling the previous record of 541 set by Temple Emanuel at Cherry Hill, N.J., in 2005. The event was…
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The Schmooze Making Home Movies in Interwar Poland
When the anti-immigration laws of the early 1920s effectively sealed the gates of the United States to would-be immigrants, the Jews of Eastern Europe who had arrived en masse between 1880 and 1920 could no longer hope to see their loved ones join them in America. Instead, those who could afford to traveled abroad, visiting…
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The Schmooze Yeshiva University Linguist Honored by Basque Academy
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. Translated by Ezra Glinter. On October 3, Yeshiva University socio-linguist and longtime Forverts contributor Dr. Joshua A. Fishman was honored by the Euskaltzaindia, or Royal Academy of the Basque Language, for his contribution to the struggle on behalf of “minoritized” languages. At a ceremony at the…
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Life Joy Ladin and Her Transmigration Poems
“The author is dead!” has been a consistent postmodernist refrain discouraging readers from reducing meanings of literary works to mere biographical outlines of their authors. Joy Ladin’s “Transmigration Poems,” published this summer, goes against such a worldview, as the poems of the collection are intensely personal, confessional. The poems bring autobiography to the heart of…
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Life Big Donor Gone Bad?
Wall Street trader Bernard L. Madoff, who stands accused of defrauding investors of an estimated $50 billion, is a major donor to Jewish causes. Until this morning, Madoff is had been listed as the treasurer of Yeshiva University’s board of trustees. He also had been the chairman of the university’s Sy Syms School of Business….
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