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YUL.Theyuobserver.1.2019-09.Pdf (7.459Mb) SINCE 1958 THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF STERN COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, SY SYMS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, AND YESHIVA UNIVERSITY WWW.YUOBSERVER.ORG SEPTEMBER 2019 TISHREI 5780 53.6% OF STUDENTS FEEL RELIGIOUSLY REPRESENTED BY YU, 74.8% ARE RELIGIOUSLY CONTENT ON CAMPUS AUGUST 2019 ELUL 5779 Glueck Beis Midrash, Wilf’s main hub of learning. NEWS the two campuses. 64.7% of Beren additional links to the survey were not wish to identify with any of students self-identify as Modern BY MOLLY MEISELS posted on Facebook. Students had the given groups. Each religious Orthodox compared to 55.5% of & TALYA HYMAN until Wednesday, September 4 at category was left open-ended and Wilf students. “Orthodox” tallied 11:59 p.m. to complete the online undefined, and the editors did not in as the second highest category, On Monday, September 2, the questionnaire. The following data request explanations of students’ with 26% of the student population YU Observer Editor in Chief and was gathered from the 412 re- interpretations. The survey sam- identifying as such. 5% more men Managing Editor invited students spondents, 58% of them from the ple indicated that a total of 61% on the Wilf Campus self-identify from the Beren and Wilf campuses Beren Campus and 42% from the of survey participants from both as Orthodox than women on the to participate in a survey about their Wilf Campus. Beren and Wilf religiously iden- Beren Campus. individual religious identities, and Students were provided tify as “Modern Orthodox,” the From both Beren and Wilf, how that translates to their overall with a list of 11 religious identi- highest total identification from religious contentment at Yeshiva fication categories from which to all of the given categories. There University. The survey was dis- self-identify, as well as with an is a 9.2% difference in Modern tributed via sstuds and ystuds, and “other” category if students did Orthodox identification between SEE RELIGIOUS CONTENT- MENT ON CAMPUS, PAGE 7 NEWS NEWS “THE FUTURE OF STERN COLLEGE” NEO-NAZI FORUM POSTS PHOTOS OF New Judaic Studies Dean to Rethink Core HUNDREDS OF YU STUDENTS AND ous Jewish studies at the same BY SARA SCHATZ time, in the same place.” This is FACULTY why students were astonished BY YU OBSERVER STAFF S ince its foundation in when a new job description for 1954, Stern College for Wom- a Beren Campus “Associate All names have been ex- en’s mission has been to create Dean, Torah and Spiritual Life” cluded from the article to protect an “unprecedented oppor- was published on the Yeshiva individuals and their safety. tunity [for women] to earn University Human Resourc- On August 29th, the YU Brandeis University, which was their bachelor’s degree...and Observer received a message from also affected by the forum. immerse themselves in rigor- SEE NEW JUDAICS a senior staff writer at the Brandeis DEAN, PAGE 4 SEE NEO-NAZI FO- INSIDE RUM, PAGE 5 שנה טובה! -SCWSC is a dicta- Remembering 9/11: Coffee is actu torship? A personal perspec- ally GOOD for FROM THE tive. you? YU OBSERVER OPINION, FEATURES, SCI-TECH, page 10 page 15 page 20 TISHREI 5780 ~ SEPTEMBER 2019 EDITORIALS PAGE 2 EDITORIAL NEWS EDITORIAL TEAM 2019-2020 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Molly Meisels MANAGING EDITOR Talya Hyman In its beginning, YU started out as a Yeshiva. This has vastly changed over the years. NEWS EDITORS Rachel Jacobi FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK: Fruma Landa OPINIONS EDITORS YESHIVA V. UNIVERSITY Shayna Herszage YU’s Institutional Identity Crisis Phillip Nagler Elka Wiesenberg of religious life. While yeshivas they would lose a large chunk FEATURES EDITORS BY MOLLY MEISELS focus on making a profit, they are of their applicant pool. To avoid Ellie Parker selective in how they do so, as their this, and to gain as much profit Hadassah Penn ast week, a main goal is to foster their version as possible (as all universities L Mikki Treitel high-ranking YU faculty mem- of religiosity. do), they accept those from ber referred to me as an outsid- Universities are vastly diverse Jewish backgrounds. SCI-TECH EDITOR er. In describing my position as different. Universities are never But when students who do not Sarah Brill Editor in Chief of the Observer, homogenous, as they are focused identify as Modern Orthodox he characterized me as a strang- on profit, and capitalism does not get to YU, they are forced to ac- LAYOUT EDITOR er to the system that YU is built foster homogeneity. When you run climate to a Modern Orthodox Sara Schatz on. He said that compared to my a university, your goal is to sell mold or be deemed an outsider. predecessors on the Commenta- degrees. Universities may focus That is the Yeshiva taking root. SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER tor and Observer boards, I am on community-building, but that YU is not one thing Shifra Lindenberg an outlier -- I did not attend a comes second anymore. It has evolved from Modern Orthodox day school, I to grow- the small yeshiva it was over a did not attend seminary in Israel, ing a student century ago, to become a Jewish and I am not a YU institution for higher learn- legacy student. He YU...has evolved from the small yeshiva ing. Yet the Yeshiva is stated that since I still a dominant factor grew up Chasidic, it was over a century ago, to become a in the decision making. attended YU soon Jewish institution for higher learning. So while the University Founded by the women of after graduating is accepting applicants Yeshiva University’s Stern from high school, from all religious back- College in 1958, The Observer and am a first generation stu- body and growing financially. grounds, the Yeshiva fights is the independent newspaper dent, I do not understand how YU is attempting a balanc- back, and the atmosphere at YU of Stern College for Women, YU works, as I am not part of ing act between these two institu- becomes one of hostility to- Sy Syms School of Business, the YU community. tions. The Yeshiva side represents wards those who did not attend and Yeshiva University. I beg to differ. I am very the roshei yeshiva and the religious a classic Modern Orthodox high much part of the YU community. figures who exert way too much school and whose parents are The Observer is an independent While YU may have once influence over a Jewish school with not in the YU world. student publication, self-funded been a homogenous institution, declining homogeneity -- a Jewish This cannot sustain itself and published on a that is no longer the case. People school that should acquire religious for long. YU needs to decide. monthly basis throughout tend to debate Torah u’Madda, figures from across the Jewish Will it become the University the academic year. Views focusing on the controversy of spectrum, instead of a narrow with a yeshiva theme, evolving expressed in The Observer the possibility of combining the portion of it. The current roshei to meet the advancements and are those of the writers and religious and the secular. But a yeshiva have a vision of what YU diversification of its student do not necessarily reflect more pertinent debate for YU is is -- a Modern Orthodox, Religious body? Or will it become a Ye- those of the editorial board the Yeshiva vs the University. Zionist institution, which is ho- shiva, with a university theme, or the student body, faculty, These two versions of an edu- mogenous in student population, beginning to reject students who and administration of Yeshiva cational institution do not work religious life, and social values. But do not suit their ideal version of University. All Observer towards the same goals. the University represents something Modern Orthodoxy? Whatev- content is copyrighted and What the roshei yeshi- else. er the decision, it will need to may not be reprinted without va, administrators, donors, and The University advertises it- be made soon. YU is not what permission. trustees believe and/or masquer- self as a “premier Jewish institution it was in the 70s, 80s, or 90s. ade YU to be, is not what YU for higher education.” Nowhere YU is is not the institution of Please visit us at www.yuobserver. is. Yeshivas tend to be homog- in its mission statement does YU its founders anymore. Modern org. enous. They tend to focus on state itself to be Modern Orthodox Orthodoxy may have built YU, very specific religious commu- and there is a reason for this. If but it is no longer defining all of nity-building and many of the YU advertised itself as a Modern the YU population. individuals who attend belong to Orthodox institution, tipping the similar, if not the same, groups YU balance to the Yeshiva side, PAGE 3 EDITORIALS TISHREI 5780 ~ SEPTEMBER 2019 NEWS TAC AND SCWSC INVITE STERN COLLEGE WOMEN TO “SWEAT4TZEDAKAH” Adler (MIDDLE, holding flyer) believes that “as student leaders on campus we are responsible to faciliate [the inspiring] experiences for you.” to perform a mitzvah along BY TALYA HYMAN p.m. at 305 Fitness, a dance cardio workout the way. “We will dress in studio pink clothes, blast music, In a new effort to offer located dance our hearts meaningful Jewish experiences at 33 “You are an integral part of Yeshi- out, and have to Yeshiva University students of East va University’s Jewish community on a blast for a varying interests and passions, 33rd special cause the Torah Activities Council campus, and I am here to cheer you that is making (TAC) has partnered up with on as we create those Jewish experi-the world a the Stern College for Women better place,” ences together.” as part of TAC’s larger mission for Student Council (SCWSC) for Adler said.
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