Like any scandal involving Torah Judaisms fight against the neo-cons (those liberal orthodox Jews refusing to call themselves conservadox) I followed the Yeshiva University Semicha Scandal (or debacle) with a very open mind. I watched as the Modern Orthodox Gedolei…
Tag: YU
Why Yeshiva University is more dangerous than YCT and open orthodoxy
We can hem and haw all day about Open Orthodoxy and it’s threat to Judaism, but in reality, no truly frum person holds of YCT, Maharat, Avi Weiss, or any of the other shenanigans that cling to the open orthodoxy…
Just another reason why YU (Yeshiva University) is assur
The following video has been going around and it makes it blatantly clear why YU will continue to be viewed as assur by a majority of the frum world. Yeshiva University and its brand of supposed “orthodoxy” is very damaging…
YU Beacon whores itself out by writing another raunchy sex article
Now that the YU Beacon is free to do what they want, they’ve decided the only way to change the perception that almost everyone who didn’t go to YU has of YU is to write about sex. Like the Chassidic…
YU Responds
Dear donors and parents, The board of Yeshiva University assures you that we have taken clear and decisive action in the matter of the YU Beacon article that has brought much shame to our community. As you know, this article…
Tefillin date with a Stern girl
The Yeshiva University newspaper recently featured one girls story about her mistake in having pre-marital sex. There has been much debate over the piece and whether or not it was appropriate for YU to post something so graphic. What the…
YU revises history, shmistory.
Nothing restores my faith in the fine institution known as Yeshiva University when they act more like a Yeshiva and less like a University. This past Rosh Hashanna I had the pleasure to read their latest YU To-Go. This publication shows me…
Frum Acronyms you should know
We frum folk are constantly using acronyms, on this here blog you may read terms like BT and FFB dozens of times before you actually figure out what they are (lots of non-religious Jews ask me. Even after you figure…
The most annoying frum Jews
There are a lot of different sects and sub groups within orthodoxy and some of them are quite annoying, this post came out of the idea I had to write about whether Messianic (Yechi) chabadnicks or Nannach Bresslovers were more…
Who wants to marry a Maccabeat?
Truth be told, I didn’t post the Macabeats viral video (I was sent it way before it went viral) because I thought it was really gay (yes I know that term is offensive to the gay readers – too bad…
Making fun of YU guys and Stern girls
Hat Tip to Tevy Town The first video is YU boys making fun of Stern Girls, and the second video is the girls’ response. I think the second video is better. My thoughts may be clouded by the simple fact…
Shabbos in Washington Heights
When the clock struck 4:45 pm I knew I was in trouble and silently cursed my computer for being stuck in central time from Dallas. I was running an hour late and there was no way in hell that I…
Birth control ad in the YU observer
Someone sent this to me a while ago, and I could never figure out how to take a PDF file and throw it in here. I hope this works. It was a file containing the Yeshiva University newspaper which had…
Yeshiva University Transgender Professor Controversey
I just had to write about this because unlike the comments on Vos Iz Neias I happen to think this story is hilarious. The news headlines say a Yeshiva University literature professor left two years ago as a man and…