7:38 PM
Gil Student
New issue of The Commentator:
- University to Take Step Back, Ease Spending
- CJF Obtains Major Grant to Fund Student Programming
- Honors Program Aims to Replenish Funds
- YC Looking to Hire New Assistant Dean
- Students Need to Reexamine Priorities, Survey Indicates
- English Department Considers the Issue of Adjuncts Teaching Freshman Composition
- Wilf Campus Travels to Connecticut for Third YUnite Shabbaton
- New Target for ORA: Rabbis
- Letters to the Editor (correctly bemoaning the implied insult to the Economics faculty in the previous issue)
- Healthy Stealthy Dating: A Modest Guide to Dating in YU
- The YU Cynic
- Yeshivatising YU One Curriculum Review at a Time
This article asks why Yeshiva College offers courses that are contrary to Jewish law. This is not an issue that will ever be under my discretion, but let me state anyway that I agree 100%. The courses taught at YU should be guided by and conform entirely with halakhah. However, and this is a big however, Jewish law must be implemented in a very broad-minded and inclusive way. For example, there are times when knowledge of the Christian Bible is important and the courses must be structured to incorporate that. Yeshiva College is not the place for being overly strict on these issues but nor should it be the place for ignoring them. YC should offer a top-notch secular education but that can and must be done within the confines of halakhah. It is not the latter that must be sacrificed for the former but, rather, vice versa.
