Yeshiva University in New York is famous for many things — its stature as the world's "premier Jewish institution for higher education," as the university puts it, its excellent academic rankings and its men's basketball team, which ended a 50-game winning streak last year.
And now, the university is in the news for less felicitous reasons: Last week, it suspended all student club activity because it has temporarily lost a court fight to ban an LGBTQ club from campus.
The news was reminiscent of the plot of the campy musical "The Prom." In that fictional story, an Indiana high school PTA cancels prom because a lesbian student wants to bring her girlfriend to the dance. Likewise, Yeshiva is suspending dozens of clubs because it refuses to accommodate its LGBTQ students. My mom used to call this "cutting off your nose to spite your face."
