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You flip open your laptop for the requisite Gmail check - which shouldn’t take more than a minute or two. But, alas, sorting through today’s emails proves annoying. The majority of your messages are mass undergraduate emails, most advertising ...

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There are certain distinguishing marks of finals time.  This period generally sees an increased awareness of and concern for cheating. The stress and difficulty of many assignments and final exams lead to an environment where some students either fee...

By: Rabbi Eli Bacon

Five years ago an exciting new initiative, the Sgan Mashgiach Program, was inaugurated at Yeshiva University.   Today, the program is still vibrant as we seek to find new ways to maximize each student’s experience at YU.  So, who are ...

By: Jon Korman

Obviously, the Sganei Mashgiach cannot begin helping students with personal needs immediately upon their arrival, because the Sganei Mashgiach do not, at that point, know anything about the new students.  In order for someone to be able to assist the...

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What Yeshiva students responded when asked about cheating and swine flu...

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Seven things we like and dislike...

By: Noah Jacobson

More facts.  More definitions.  More material. All of this for one reason.  One goal. One thing, the only thing that kept me going this late into the night: The A....

By: Harry Portman

The moment the last class ends Thursday night, (or Friday morning for those unlucky in scheduling or educationally ambitious) a mass exodus takes place on the Wilf Campus. The vast majority of the “in-town” members of the undergraduate student...

By: Julian Horowitz

Around this time last year, I was tapped to serve as an editor for Beis Yitzchak, YU's only consistently published Torah journal.  Though each year's editor brings with him a slightly different vision, for over forty years the journal has provided a ...

By: Mijal Bitton

The Westboro Baptist Church--the one that pickets the funerals of American soldiers, blames all the world’s problems on homosexuals, and essentially stands against anyone who isn’t them, recently came to my hometown of Great Neck....

By: Matthew Williams

One evening in November of 1840, a ruckus brewed on the University of Virginia's central lawn.  It was a truly southern temperature that night, balmy yet cold, a common inauguration of winter below the Mason-Dixon line.  Cries could be heard acr...

By: Anonymous

The second half of Eighth Grade.  Pizza with friends!  Bowling!  The sweet, easy life of one about to finish a school – a feeling that, thankfully, comes again at the end of twelfth grade and presumably at the end of college as well &...

By: Sammy Steiner

Dr Pelkovitz speaks out on homosexuality...

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What Yeshiva students think about the fifth year scholarship and the clash between homosexuality and Judaism...

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Letters to the Editor by Jo Jo Freundel and Sivan Kerem in response to the issue of homosexuality in Ortodox Judaism and a general letter by Akiva Fleischmann....

By: Julian Horowitz

The question of how to approach homosexuality in our community is particularly vexing for those of us who try to walk the thin tightropes of centrism and moderation....

By: Harry Portman

As clichéd as the title of this opinions piece is, I find it to be entirely appropriate. The location of the Yeshiva University campus in New York City creates a drastically different environment when compared to the various colleges across the cou...

By: Noah Jacobson

I know it is my avowed duty as a constituent of the Yeshiva College student body to remain loyal to its age-old tradition of negativity.  YU is supposed to suck.  Everyone knows that! ...

By: Unknown

The scientific mentality and socially liberal outlook of our times has tried the viability of many ancient religious doctrines.  In our Modern Orthodox community, we proudly (and hopefully modestly) maintain that our religious beliefs don't run count...

By: Jonathan Schwab

What we think about housing and internet...