This is the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
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News States Move to Extend Window on Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits; Was AIPAC Boring?
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward reporter Paul Berger to discuss New York may ease restrictions on lawsuits stemming from decades-old cases of child sex abuse and, if the law passes, how it might bring justice for victims at Yeshiva University. Then, Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman reports…
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News Y.U. Launches Probe, Israel’s Elections
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward staff writer Paul Berger to discuss his ongoing investigation into allegations of sex abuse at Yeshiva University’s high school for boys in New York and the recent announcement that YU will launch its own internal investigation. Then, opinion editor Gal Beckerman discusses…
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News Investigating YU, Reporting on Newtown
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward staff writer Paul Berger to discuss his ongoing investigation into allegations of sex abuse at Yeshiva University’s high school for boys in New York. Then, deputy culture editor Naomi Zeveloff discusses her recent story about the family of Noah Pozner, the youngest…
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News A Year After Leiby, Natalie’s Nuptials
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by the Forward’s Deputy Culture Editor, Naomi Zeveloff to discuss how the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Boro Park is coping, one year after the tragic abduction and murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky. Then Forward intern Simi Lampert explains why she feels like she is bragging when she…
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Life Changing My Mind About Marrying Young
Before I came to Yeshiva University’s Stern College, for Women, my mother told me about what the college was like back when she was an undergraduate there. One thing that stood out as something truly mockable was the marriage stats she gave me about her graduating class: “One third of the class was engaged and…
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Culture A Transsexual at Yeshiva University
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders By Joy Ladin University of Wisconsin Press, 270 pages, $26.95 Probably one of the best-known Jewish stories in the world is a transgender tale. A young educator realizes that they really belong with the opposite gender. And, although it overturns social convention and throws families…
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News Skip the Ads, Watch Torah at Halftime
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow thrust religion into the consciousness of football fans everywhere this year by famously taking a knee and bowing his head in prayer on the field. And while his prayers caused their fair share of controversy, not everyone thinks mixing football and religion is such a bad thing. Ahead of Super…
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Life In YU Sex Column, a Missed Opportunity
As a Stern College alumna, I feel the need to explain why the recent Beacon sex essay that described a premarital sexual encounter was received negatively by many Yeshiva University students and alumni. Despite what the media seems to believe, YU students and alums are not afraid to discuss important and uncomfortable topics; we know…
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