Yeshiva University

When a Zoroastrian and a Jew Walked into a Mikvah

It is like clockwork. You can expect someone to raise the following argument every single time anything new is being ...

How I Ended Up Delivering the Sermon on Rosh Hashanah

Over the summer, Larry, the organizer of the minyan that I attend for Rosh Hashanah, sent out an email asking ...

Yeshiva University Dean Wants to Reverse Gains in Women’s Torah Learning

My social media has been abuzz this past week with the commentary on a recent article published by Rabbi Mordechai ...

The Quiet Greatness of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein: One Woman Remembers

Tucked away, among a pile of folders and spiral notebooks that contain the photocopied sources and notes of classes gone ...

One Student’s Ordination Affects Us All

Yeshiva University’s recent decision to withhold semicha (rabbinic ordination) from one of its about-to-graduate rabbis because of his participation in ...

Joy Ladin’s Door of Life

Talking to Joy Ladin is like speaking with your favorite professor from college — the one who wove words in ...