This is the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
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News Gay Conversion Therapy Provider Spoke At Parent Meeting At Prominent Orthodox School
Yeshiva University’s high school hosted a gay conversion therapist at a recent Parent Education Night, the Forward has learned. Dr. Gavriel Fagin, who runs a Brooklyn-based counseling service, spoke to parents of students at the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, stylized as MTA, at a mandatory event Monday. The website for Fagin’s practice, Tikun Counseling, advertises…
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News New Law Opens Door To Sex Abuse Lawsuits, Starting With Alleged Victims At Y.U.
Three years ago, Mordechai Twersky seemed to have run out of options in his fight to hold Yeshiva University accountable for the abuse he says he suffered decades ago as a student at its high school. Two separate federal judges had decided that the lawsuits he and other former students had filed, claiming that the…
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Life Think Orthodox Students Don’t Want To Talk LGBTQ Issues? Not Anymore At YU
In a rare, student-led effort to address LGBTQ issues, dozens of Yeshiva University students crowded a classroom in the university’s Midtown campus on Tuesday evening for an event on topics such as coming out as gay on campus, creating social change and becoming allies to queer peers. Guest speaker Ben Katz, a Yeshiva University graduate…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Eliminated From NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament
(JTA) — Yeshiva University was eliminated from the NCAA Division III men’s basketball tournament with an 81-67 opening-round loss to host York College of Pennsylvania. The Maccabees, who were making their first appearance in the national tournament, finished their season with a record of 18-11. Gabriel Leifer, a 6-5 forward from Lawrence, New York, led…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Basketball Team Won’t Play On Shabbat At March Madness
(JTA) — The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team won’t have to worry about playing on Shabbat in the opening round of the NCAA Division III tournament. The team announced Tuesday in a post on its Facebook page that its game against York College in Pennsylvania will take place at 1 p.m. Friday. The original schedule…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva U Basketball Team Will Play In March Madness For The First Time Ever
(JTA) — The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team has earned its first berth in the NCAA Division III basketball tournament in program history. The Maccabees on Sunday defeated Purchase College, 87-81, to win the Skyline Conference championship and earned automatic qualification into the tournament. “There is nothing much to say. We are champs,” Yeshiva University…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Professor Denounced For Criticizing Trump’s Jerusalem Decision
A professor at Yeshiva University is being denounced for signing a statement criticizing President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Jess Olson was one of more than 170 Jewish Studies professors across the country who signed a petition earlier this month expressing dismay at Trump’s move. The petition states that the announcement that…
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University Students To Be Fined $150 For Skipping Prayers
(JTA) — Male students who violate the rules of a coed shabbaton at Yeshiva University will now be fined $150. The Office of Student Life at the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy instituted the fine for violations of the rules that the male students sign in an agreement before the start of the shabbaton, a…
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