Out of the Closet

Homosexual Student and Alumni Speak to Standing-Room-Only Crowd on Wilf Campus

On Tuesday, December 22, four gay men, one an undergraduate student at Yeshiva and the other three YU alumni, spoke to a packed crowd in the Wilf Campus’ Weissberg Commons. For two hours, the four panelists presented their personal narratives dealing with being gay in Yeshiva and in the general Orthodox world. Full story

Future Fourth-Year Students: Accommodated!

Announced earlier this semester, the new setup of the Fourth Year on Campus Scholarship program threw many student plans askew.  A handful of students, who initially planned to apply for a subsidized fourth year on campus, were aggravated by the changes, having organized their courses of study on a four-year-on-campus basis at the beginning of their Yeshiva careers. Full story

Re-Ordering the Court: A Look at the New-Look Student Court

YSU’s Student Court, an organization likely unbeknownst to most Wilf Campus students, may soon play a significant role in the lives of the entire student body. Full story

The House of Isaac

Around this time last year, I was tapped to serve as an editor for Beis Yitzchak, YU's only consistently published Torah journal.  Though each year's editor brings with him a slightly different vision, for over forty years the journal has provided a creative outlet for our many Torah scholars – both budding and full-fledged – to publish the profound fruits of their studies. Full story