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Fast Forward After spurning Columbia, Robert Kraft gives $1M to Yeshiva U to support transfer students
In April, Kraft had announced a split with his alma mater, Columbia University, over the school’s handling of its pro-Palestinian protests
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Fast Forward While receiving an award at Yeshiva University commencement, John Fetterman disavows his alma mater, Harvard
The senator said he was 'profoundly disappointed' by 'Harvard’s inability to stand up for the Jewish community after Oct. 7'
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Fast Forward Jewish professor who quit MIT over its handling of antisemitism accepts post at Yeshiva University
Computer scientist Mauricio Karchmer announced last month that he was quitting the university over its 'open hostility' against Jews and Israel
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Fast Forward Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean who led Yeshiva U seminary through period of growth, dies at 94
Charlop once said that his ideal YU would be “a yeshiva like Volozhin,” a legendary seminary in what is now Belarus, and a university like Columbia
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News Orthodox Judaism has its first openly gay congregational rabbi. This is his story.
When a therapist proposed integrating his rabbinical and queer selves a few years ago, Rabbi Shua Brick just laughed
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Opinion What’s really at stake in the legal struggle between Yeshiva University and its LGBTQ+ students
YU claims to be fighting for religious liberty, despite considerable internal opposition to its legal offensive
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University, a pillar of Orthodox Judaism, launches master’s program for Christian students
'Can Christians and Orthodox Jews study together?' asks the head of the Christian partner in the program. 'Does it even work?'
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University is left in mourning after a beloved gay alum dies by suicide
Herschel Siegel had previously written on Instagram about being gay within the Orthodox community
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