At the crux of the legal dispute was whether Yeshiva is a “religious corporation” under New York law. The state’s appellate ...

A settlement between Yeshiva University and its LGBTQ club has sparked backlash from revered Orthodox Judaism authorities.

In an email to students, Rabbi Ari Berman rejected the idea that Y.U. had reversed its prohibition on the club.

YU fought in court to avoid giving official recognition to the YU Pride Alliance, a student LGBTQ group. In 2022, the school announced its own group to support LGBTQ students, which Pride Alliance ...

For years, in keeping with Orthodoxy’s prohibition against homosexual relations, Y.U. fought in court to avoid giving official recognition to the YU Pride Alliance, a student LGBTQ group.

Less than a week after Yeshiva University agreed to recognize an LGBTQ+ student club as part of a legal settlement, university president Ari Berman apologized for the way the university conveyed the ...

My position, then as now, emphatically rejects the ideology, lifestyle and behaviors which the LGBTQ term represents,” wrote one of the university’s most senior rabbis.The post ‘Regret,’ ‘deep’ apolog ...

The club was formerly known as the YU Pride Alliance and was long the subject of litigation over whether the university had to recognize it. The school contended that such recognition would ...

Yeshiva University has never before recognized an official club of this sort, according to Katherine Rosenfeld, a partner at ...