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War Spurs Anger Over Israel Military Exemption For Ultra-Orthodox

As Israelis are called up to join the war effort in Gaza, anger is mounting at the ultra-Orthodox community which has long been spared the compulsory military service required of most citizens.

International Business Times

‘We came to thank him and say goodbye’: mourners bury young Briton in quiet, jittery Jerusalem

As Nathanel Young, 20, was buried, the streets of the divided city remained uneasily empty with both sides fearing reprisals

The Guardian - UK

‘We came to thank him and say goodbye’: mourners bury young Briton in quiet, jittery Jerusalem

As Nathanel Young, 20, was buried, the streets of the divided city remained uneasily empty with both sides fearing reprisals

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NYC school officials say yeshivas run by Hasidic community fail to teach students in core subjects

Eighteen private Jewish schools run by New York City’s politically powerful Hasidic community deprived thousands of students the required secular education in English, math, science and social studies

The Independent UK

NYC schools investigation finds several yeshivas fail to offer quality secular education

NEW YORK — Several ultra-Orthodox religious schools fail to provide students with a basic education in subjects such as reading and math, city officials found in a highly anticipated report released Friday.

Tribune News Service

School bus bursts into flames with quick-thinking driver saving lives of six kids

The driver rescued six kids aged 5 to 11 from the school bus before it got immersed in a menacing blaze. They were on their way home from a private Yeshiva in Queens, New York

Daily Mirror

Taxpayer-funded vouchers in Florida go mostly to religious schools. ‘Pay for it yourself,’ rabbi says

ORLANDO, Fla. — Most Florida students using state vouchers to pay for private school spend their scholarships at religious schools, as their parents select campuses where lessons from the Bible, the Torah and the Quran are taught alongside traditional academics.

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NY Officials: Yeshiva Must Account For Public Funds Amid Legal Row Over LGBTQ Group

Three state senators sent a letter to the president of Yeshiva U suggesting that the administration misrepresented the institution

Zenger

Some LGBTQ believers stick with faiths that repudiate them

In churches, synagogues and mosques across the United States, religious teaching and texts are often cited in disapproving of LGBTQ people

The Independent UK

Religious freedom and LGBTQ rights are clashing in schools and on campuses – and courts are deciding

Disputes over religious freedom and LGBTQ rights in the United States have led to some of the most high-profile judicial controversies – and 2022 is no exception. For example, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 5, 2022, about whether a designer can refuse to create wedding websites for same-sex…

The Conversation

Yeshiva University Loses On The Shadow Docket, Wins On The Penumbra Docket

SCOTUS nudges the lower courts and parties into compliance.

Reason

LGBT student club agrees to delay forcing Yeshiva University to recognize it

An LGBT student group has agreed to hold off on forcing Yeshiva University to formally recognize it while the Jewish school in New York City appeals a judge's order requiring it to do so - an action the institution said would violate its religious values.

Reuters

Robin Abcarian: Yeshiva University says it loves its LGBTQ students. They just can't have their own club

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.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Yeshiva University should let an LGBT club form on campus

Yeshiva University is an Orthodox Jewish institution of higher education in New York — a city with a human rights law intended to ensure that in all but truly private settings, people are protected from discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, national origin and sexual orientation.

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Yeshiva University suspends activities after SCOTUS ruling on LGBTQ club

"We are confident that YU students will see through this shameful tactic," an attorney for the LGBTQ group said.

WEKU

Yeshiva University cancels all clubs after it was ordered to allow an LGBTQ group

The Supreme Court said Yeshiva University would have to go back to New York state courts in its legal battle with the YU Pride Alliance, an LGBTQ student group asking to be officially recognized.

WEKU

Yeshiva University cancels all student clubs after Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ group

The Supreme Court said Yeshiva University would have to go back to New York state courts in its legal battle with the YU Pride Alliance, an LGBTQ student group asking to be officially recognized.

The Independent UK

Yeshiva University halts clubs amid High Court LGBTQ ruling

Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize for now an LGBTQ student group

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Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court refuses for now to shield Yeshiva University in battle with LGBTQ club

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote said Wednesday that it will not shield Yeshiva University from a state court order that requires it to recognize an LGBTQ student group on campus.

Reason

S. Ct. (5-4) Won't Temporarily Stop N.Y. Ruling that Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva U. Recognize "LGBTQ Student Group"

From Yeshiva Univ. v. YU Pride Alliance, decided today by the Supreme Court: Applicants Yeshiva University and its president seek emergency relief from a non-final order of the New York trial court requiring the University to treat an LGBTQ student group similarly to other student groups in its student club…

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court says Yeshiva University may exclude — for now — LGBTQ student group

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday issued an order by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that allows Yeshiva University in New York to refuse to recognize an LGBTQ club for students.

The Independent UK

High court blocks recognition of LGBTQ campus at Yeshiva U

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order that would have forced Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBTQ group as an official campus club

AAP

Jewish school 'put child safety at risk'

Yeshiva College Bondi has had its registration cancelled by NSW education authorities after routinely failing basic standards for child protection.

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