Rabbis revolt over LGBTQ+ club, exposing fight over queer acceptance at Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University’s approval of a campus LGBTQ+ club in a landmark settlement seemed to herald a new era of acceptance for queer students at the flagship Orthodox Jewish university. But amid uproar in the wider Orthodox community, the school’s rabbinic leaders have tried to make clear in the days since that nothing could be further from the truth. ... Were the school forced to recognize a club that espoused pride in queer identity, one RIETS rosh yeshiva (head rabbi) indicated he would quit. “It would be akin to the Yeshiva being asked to teach the New Testament,” said Rabbi Aryeh...