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New York City-based Yeshiva University filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 29 asking the court to stay a lower court order forcing it to recognize an LGBTQ student club. The application comes as the high court has become increasingly protective of constitutionally protected religious rights in recent years. Last year […]
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Yeshiva University Asks Supreme Court to Block Order Forcing It to Recognize LGBTQ Club on Campus
August 30th, 2022 
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April 29th, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source Views: 0
Karlie Kloss’ baby’s name leaked by Josh Kushner’s former Israeli yeshiva
April 20th, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda It’s common practice in Jewish circles to wait until eight days after a baby boy is born before publicly sharing the baby’s name at the time of circumcision. Josh Kushner and Karlie Kloss, the brother and sister-in-law of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, wanted to wait even longer than that to make the baby’s name, […]
Yeshiva U. plans to eliminate in-person Hebrew courses indefinitely
April 16th, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Yeshiva University is planning to eliminate its in-person Hebrew courses indefinitely, making what was at first a pandemic-induced measure a permanent one. The change was first reported by the YU Commentator, one of the university’s student newspapers. The new Hebrew courses will be asynchronous, meaning students will not interact in real time with a teacher, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: courses, eliminate, hebrew, indefinitely, person, plans, Yeshiva No Comments »Seventeen-Year-Old Yeshiva Student Wins Israel’s Annual International Bible Quiz on Independence Day
April 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Contestants in Israel’s annual International Bible Quiz for Youth, April 15, 2021. Photo: YouTube screenshot. Israel held its annual International Bible Quiz for Youth on Thursday, as the country marked its 73rd Independence Day. N12 reported that the winner was Gilad Avrahamoff, a 17-year-old yeshiva student from Netanya. Second place went to another yeshiva student, […]
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu Tags: annual, bible, international, israel, seventeen, student, Yeshiva No Comments »Yeshiva University men’s basketball is on a 35-game winning streak
March 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Yeshiva University’s men’s basketball team is riding a 35-game winning streak, picking up from last season when the Maccabees reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA’s Division III national tournament before the pandemic shut down the rest of the event. The unbeaten streak is the third longest in Division III men’s basketball history, and the […]
Ari Gold, yeshiva student-turned-pop star and LGBTQ icon, dies of cancer at 47
February 17th, 2021 Awake Goy News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source Views: 0
Flagship New Jersey yeshiva cancels Purim celebrations
February 17th, 2021 Awake Goy Haredi Orthodox Jews in Lakewood, New Jersey, are curtailing Purim festivities because of COVID-19. For the first time in 80 years, Beth Medrash Govoha, the yeshiva at the center of the township’s 70,000-strong Orthodox community, won’t host festivities surrounding the holiday, the Asbury Park Press reports. Ocean County health authorities have reported 11,369 COVID-19 cases […]
Ari Gold, yeshiva student-turned-pop star and LGBTQ icon, dies at 47
February 17th, 2021 Awake Goy He was 47, and the cause was leukemia. Gold was born and raised in an Orthodox family in the Bronx, New York. NPR once reported that his musical talent was discovered while singing at his brother Steven’s bar mitzvah at age 5. He attended Ramaz, a prominent Modern Orthodox Jewish day school in New York, […]
Yang Hints at Hands-Off Approach to Yeshiva Education
February 13th, 2021 Awake Goy (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang waded into the debate over the push for secular education at yeshivas, affirming “parental choice” and saying there is a “complete lack of trust” between the haredi Orthodox community and city government. Organizations that oppose government scrutiny of secular education at the […]
Yang hints at hands-off approach to yeshiva education, NYC campaign
February 12th, 2021 Awake Goy New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang waded into the debate over the push for secular education at yeshivas, affirming “parental choice” and saying there is a “complete lack of trust” between the haredi Orthodox community and city government. Organizations that oppose government scrutiny of secular education at the Jewish private schools were quick to praise […]
Former NBA Star Amare Stoudemire Talks to Yeshiva University Students About Judaism and Playing in Israel
February 10th, 2021 Awake Goy Amare Stoudemire talking to Yeshiva University students in a virtual event on Feb. 3, 2021. Photo: Screenshot. Veteran NBA player Amare Stoudemire talked to students of Yeshiva University in New York about his career, his life as an observant Jew, and maintaining a close connection to God. Stoudemire, who is the assistant player development coach […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: amare, former, stoudemire, students, talks, university, Yeshiva No Comments »Police, residents clash in Haredi neighbourhoods over yeshiva shutdowns
January 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Browse > Home / News / Police, residents clash in Haredi neighbourhoods over yeshiva shutdowns January 25, 2021 by JNS Read on for article Clashes continued on Sunday in several Haredi neighbourhoods between residents and the police attempting to enforce Israel’s lockdown regulations. Religious students in Ashdod clash with police as they protest after authorities […]
Posted in News Tags: clash, haredi, neighbourhoods, police, Residents, shutdowns, Yeshiva No Comments »Haredim Clash With Police At Ashdod Yeshiva Open In Violation Of Lockdown
January 12th, 2021 Awake Goy Rioting broke out in Ashdod on Monday after police were dispatched to the southern town to shutter an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva that had opened in violation of the state-wide lockdown. Hundreds of Haredi youth clashed with police, who used riot-dispersal measures to break up the demonstration. Eleven demonstrators were arrested on charges of assaulting police officers. […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Ashdod, clash, haredim, lockdown, police, violation, Yeshiva No Comments »Two men spray swastika onto Brooklyn yeshiva
December 21st, 2020 Awake Goy Two men spray painted a swastika onto a Brooklyn yeshiva last weekend in an apparent hate crime, authorities said Saturday as they released surveillance video of the incident. The antisemitic image, along with the men’s tags, or graffiti signatures, were found on the side of Mesilas Bias Yaakov in the South Slope neighborhood last Sunday. […]
Yeshiva University students to again hold an LGBTQ event on campus
December 19th, 2020 Awake Goy Ten years after an event featuring gay students and graduates divided Yeshiva University, students at the Modern Orthodox school are planning another event on LGBTQ issues — with trepidation. The students who helped plan the event set for Sunday say they do not want their names associated with the panel out of concern that it […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: again, campus, event, lgbtq, students, university, Yeshiva No Comments »How Yeshiva Prepared Me To Excel in Secular Education
November 28th, 2020 Awake Goy As a former yeshiva student, it’s challenging balancing higher education, a high-tech career and a significant emphasis on Torah study. But it can be done. There’s a common idea in secular society that religious studies and academic life are mutually exclusive. This perception may stem from the idea that religious beliefs and critical thinking are at odds […]
Another ‘Nazi Atrocity’ Bites The Dust — The Burning Of The Yeshiva Library In Lublin, Poland
November 24th, 2020 Awake Goy Despite the fact that Jewish ‘scholars’ themselves have thoroughly discredited the long-held “historical fact” that “Nazis” burned the entire yeshiva Library in Lublin, Poland, in 1939, many Jewish “historians” still insist that it happened — and then they wonder how any “sane” and “honest” person could question any aspect of their sacred so-called “Holocaust”: In […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: another, atrocity, bites, burning, library, lublin, Yeshiva No Comments »Coronavirus Israel live: 1,100 yeshiva students test positive after Jerusalem prayer service
October 4th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Views: 0
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, coronavirus, israel, Jerusalem, positive, students, Yeshiva No Comments »Yeshiva University rejects LGBTQ club, saying it will support students in other ways
September 5th, 2020 Awake Goy (JTA) — Yeshiva University rejected the formation of a campus group for queer students but said it was putting in place new policies to help LGBTQ students feel safe. The flagship Modern Orthodox college in New York sent a statement to students Thursday addressing a yearlong battle over whether the school would allow a queer […]
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