Tag: YU
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Yeshivish
Yeshiva University grants semicha and loses its self respect
Like any scandal involving Torah Judaisms fight against the neo-cons (those liberal orthodox Jews refusing to call themselves conservadox) I followed the Yeshiva University…
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Yeshivish
Why Yeshiva University is more dangerous than YCT and open orthodoxy
We can hem and haw all day about Open Orthodoxy and it's threat to Judaism, but in reality, no truly frum person holds of…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Just another reason why YU (Yeshiva University) is assur
The following video has been going around and it makes it blatantly clear why YU will continue to be viewed as assur by a…
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Jewish Life
YU Responds
Dear donors and parents, The board of Yeshiva University assures you that we have taken clear and decisive action in the matter of the…
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Dating & Marriage
Tefillin date with a Stern girl
The Yeshiva University newspaper recently featured one girls story about her mistake in having pre-marital sex. There has been much debate over the piece…
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Jewish Life
YU revises history, shmistory.
Nothing restores my faith in the fine institution known as Yeshiva University when they act more like a Yeshiva and less like a University. This past…
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Dating & Marriage
The Heights and depths of dating
I love Washington Heights. It's where the urban grid of Manhattan hits reality, where streets are smacked into cliffs and valleys, with stepped streets,…
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Jewish Life
Frum Acronyms you should know
We frum folk are constantly using acronyms, on this here blog you may read terms like BT and FFB dozens of times before you…
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Jewish Life
The most annoying frum Jews
There are a lot of different sects and sub groups within orthodoxy and some of them are quite annoying, this post came out of…
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Chanukah
Who wants to marry a Maccabeat?
Truth be told, I didn't post the Macabeats viral video (I was sent it way before it went viral) because I thought it was…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
(Belated) Devar Torah Parshas Ki Savo
Guest post by Dale Rosenbach While Moses was preparing to give up leadership, the Israelites were preparing to enter the Promised Land and participate…
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Dating & Marriage
Making fun of YU guys and Stern girls
Hat Tip to Tevy Town The first video is YU boys making fun of Stern Girls, and the second video is the girls' response.…
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Jewish Life
Birth control ad in the YU observer
Someone sent this to me a while ago, and I could never figure out how to take a PDF file and throw it in…
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Yeshivish
Yeshiva University Transgender Professor Controversey
I just had to write about this because unlike the comments on Vos Iz Neias I happen to think this story is hilarious. The…