Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yeshiva University, a Modern Orthodox university in New York City.
A Yeshiva University student is the son of a man infected with coronavirus, the school reported Tuesday afternoon. The student, who has not been on campus since February 27, is in self-quarantine and is showing symptoms, which are being monitored. The student is the son of a Westchester man who was hospitalized in “serious condition”…
(JTA) — Yeshiva University’s men’s basketball team won the Skyline Conference championship game on Sunday to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament for the second time in three seasons. The top-seeded Maccabees defeated third-seeded Purchase College, State University of New York, 86-74, at home in the title game to run its…
A man accused of lighting fires in a Yeshiva University dormitory while students were asleep may be the grandson of Edward Teller, the famous nuclear physicist who played a central role in inventing the hydrogen bomb. Peter Weyand was arrested over the weekend after he was allegedly caught on camera using matches from a Hanukkah…
The student councils for the undergraduate colleges at Yeshiva University announced on Thursday the reinstatement of the school’s Democratic club, after disciplining the group earlier this week after the College Democrats sponsored a march in support of LGBTQ students. The march was not officially sanctioned by the school’s administration, and this week the student councils…
The student councils of Yeshiva University declined to renew its recognition of the school’s Democratic club after it organized a march in support of LGBTQ students, the YU Commentator reported. The denial of the Democratic club comes amid a year of escalating unease for LGBTQ individuals in the YU community. Last week, more than 100…
(JTA) — The photos of thousands of students and faculty of Yeshiva University appear on a white nationalist and anti-Semitic website. The photos were posted on the Vanguard News Network Forum, in a thread that mocked Jews’ for their appearance. The thread first appeared on June 3rd, 2018, and on June 27th, 2018, the first Yeshiva…
A major suit has been filed against Yeshiva University by 38 men alleging that they suffered sexual abuse at the hands of school teachers and officials, which was subsequently covered up by the school’s administration. The suit, filed Thursday in a Manhattan civil court, resurrects a previous civil case against Yeshiva University, brought by many…
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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