Yeshiva University Student Club Loses Official Status After LGBTQ Advocacy

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Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library (Wikimedia Commons)

NEW YORK (JTA) — A student organization at Yeshiva University lost its official status after organizing a protest march calling for the establishment of a Gay-Straight Alliance Club and permission to host LGBTQ events on campus.

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The College Democrats’ request to renew its status for the coming semester was rejected over last week’s march, which attracted about 100 people, and the group will be “barred from running events, hanging up fliers on campus and receiving funding from student activity fees,” according to the Commentator, the student newspaper at Modern Orthodoxy’s flagship institution.

The club had been warned of the move if it went ahead with the march, the Commentator reported.

“There are certain perks that come with being a YU-approved club on campus,” Student Union President Ariel Sacknovitz told the paper. “But those come with rules of having to be approved by the Student Council and needing Office of Student Life approval for speakers and events as well. By breaking those rules — even after being warned, and by opting out of [the rules] — then realistically, you don’t get the perks that come with it, such as the Student Council funding and the club approval.”

“It seems like nothing less than retaliation for the LGBTQ march that was hosted,” march organizer Molly Meisels said. “YU receives funding from Democratic politicians. I don’t think they would be too pleased to hear that Democratic voices are being suppressed at Yeshiva University.”

Meisels said there are two Republican groups on campus.

A Yeshiva University spokesperson declined to comment on the matter, the Commentator reported.

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Mark
Mark
4 years ago

Good for YU – finally someone standing up for what they believe in and not getting
pushed into their beliefs by tge Radical Left

Jenny
Jenny
4 years ago

WHat is this world coming to

Joseph
Joseph
4 years ago

see college is bad… it makes you weird and left leaning

Kudos
Kudos
4 years ago

Wow, great, bravo to YU on this one.

As the old saying goes, if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.

ananymous
ananymous
4 years ago

YU did NOTHING! Read the last line. “YU refused to comment” It is the Student Council who gives approval to campus clubs. As a supposedly an orthodox Torah institution of higher learning and one who gives smicha, YU should firmly be in support of the Torah prohibition of homosexuality. Nor should they confer smicha to openly gay rabbinical candidates. The reason Yiddishkeit has survived for close to 6000 years is our strict adherence to Torah law & Hashems will. GET WITH IT YU or join the JTS, for when you approve of homosexuality you are no different than the Reform or conservative movements. I’m sure the Rav is turning over in his grave hearing about this.

lazy-boy
lazy-boy
4 years ago

that poople in a yeshiva would want to be friends with perverts is in itself disgusting.

something is smelling bad at YU and it is not the plumbing….

Hesh
Hesh
4 years ago

It’s time to wake up. It’s not only in America where yeshivas will be facing these radical lefty perverts but also in Israel. Every year they make these filthy gay parades in over a dozen Israeli cities. No chareidim or religious Zionist stop them. Only protesters are the kahanist group. Why would YU be worse than chareidim who are silent about this evil.

Cricket
Cricket
4 years ago

Oh the Irony -molly isn’t being democratic violating democraticly formed student club.

Alan
Alan
4 years ago

Paul says: “Yes, if Hashen [sic] says to ostracize them. Same as if he gives someone a disease that requires quarantine. Follow His directions and you will do just fine.”

His attitude explains the high rates of depression and suicide among our Orthodox Jewish gay children siblings and friends.

Shlomo
Shlomo
4 years ago

We in the frum community must come up with a better response to the LGBTQ community.
To simply believe it’s “a choice” is not just simplistic, it’s wrong.
Avoiding the topic, ostracizing them, etc. only leads to them (1) leaving the community and/or (2) committing suicide.
We must draw a distinction between the orientation and the behavior.
Lastly, don’t delude yourselves: these kids are in all of our communities.
The numbers fall out at a fairly consistent ~5% of the population.
Have a large enough family? Somebody is LGBTQ.
Have a large enough yeshiva? Somebody is LBGTQ.