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A Letter to the Students from Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm
Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm
I am addressing you through the medium of your school newspaper in order to reach as many of you as possible.
Divided We Stand
Joshua Goldman
Shmuli Singer takes care to admonish our university community, because “we blithely ignore the growing reality that two very distinct cultures flourish side-by-side on campus.” One would conclude that based on this approach, it would be appropriate for a speaker providing practical advice to students to recognize what type of student he is addressing, and focus his remarks appropriately. And yet when a speaker did just this, addressing his words to “those that learn in the main bais midrash,” Mr. Singer doesn’t praise him for “dealing with different cultures of students using substantially different and appropriate means....”
Truth, Justice, and No Student Advocates
Judah Moskowitz
I’d like to start off by stating that I am very pleased that the Student Advocacy Council has been formed. It is time for students to rise up against the injustice that goes on in the administrative department that is dealing with accused students, their crimes, and their punishments....
Criticize, Don’t Sympathize
Lavie Largolin
Your recent article, “Student Services Expels Ten Students,” was quite sad. To try and paint these students in a sympathetic light is really troublesome. Your article tells it as if they are all innocents....
Who Will Save Our Souls?
Moshe A. Solomon
I find the current state of the yeshiva/university very troubling. How many yeshivot have to deal with the public relations problems of ten talmidim being thrown out due to violations involving the police....
A Modern Dilemma
Rabbi Dr. Tzvee Zahavy
The Zakheim debacle has damaged Yeshiva University’s reputation. But the outcome ultimately could be positive. A Zakheim-like choice does not serve the school or the Modern Orthodox community. The school could benefit from the selection of a visionary educational leader, something that Rabbi Lamm never matured into....
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Dr. Miriam Bloom
Without commenting on whether Dov Zakheim was the best choice for president, I ask this question: Have women been seriously considered for the position?
Print the Dirty Truth
Eric Creizman
I read with great interest your articles and editorials regarding the expulsion of ten students for “the incident” that occurred in an off-campus apartment. As an Orthodox Jew under the age of thirty-five, it would be impossible not to have a general idea of what this “incident” was....
Unworthy Praise
Marc Tuchman
I’d like to comment on Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm’s letter to the students regarding their behavior at the Washington D.C. rally. Although it’s very nice and perhaps even inspiring that Yeshiva University students created a Kiddush Hashem with their ‘behavior’ at the rally, why is it noteworthy?...
Show Me the Money
Shimon Klayman
Unless one has been in a coma the last two years it’s been kind of hard to not notice the “LouShap-a-Rama” that’s been going on. Now, I’m no Economics major, but these “fun” events that Lou has been organizing for two years cost actual money....
Strike This
Zalman Abramchik
As a student of Yeshiva University, what concerns me is not the issues of the strike. I do not care who is right and who is wrong. I do not know if the workers deserve more money, or if Yeshiva is doing the right thing by holding out. What is relevant to me is the fact that I am being affected because of this strike....