People walk by the campus of Yeshiva University in New York City on August 30, 2022, in New York City. Yeshiva University on Monday filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court asking it to block a judge’s order that requires the university to recognize an LGBTQ+ student group. The religious and Jewish university stated in court papers that “Yeshiva cannot comply with that order because doing so would violate its sincere religious beliefs about how to form its undergraduate students in Torah values.” SPENCER PLATT/JNS
Three New York state senators sent a letter on Wednesday to the president of Yeshiva University suggesting that the administration misrepresented the institution as being secular when it secured government funding of some $230 million, even as the school engages in a legal battle over its unwillingness to recognize an LGBTQ student body on grounds that doing so would infringe upon its rights as a “religious corporation.”
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