![]() The Commentator Volume 62 Issue 8 |
![]() Second Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy
On February 15th and 16th, the Second International Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy graced the facilities of Manhattan’s Grand Hyatt Hotel on Park Avenue. The conference, hailed as "historic," aimed at "expanding religious life for women not in a revolutionary way but through education and the study of the possibilities within Jewish law," explained the planners. Observatory PurgatoryDavid MirskyThis year, looking up at the heavens was supposed to take on a new meaning at Yeshiva College. Unfortunately, the astronomical observatory that was slated for placement atop Belfer Hall by the fall of last year has been held up by numerous logistical and financial problems. Yeshiva Battles Cherokee for Parking Spot and HomeMembers of the YU administration say that Ed Rice is "dangerous" and a "psychiatric case," who ought to be "institutionalized." They want him forcibly removed from campus. Also in this Issue: |
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