Jun 6, 2025 | Eshel in the News
“One hopes that both sides in the Yeshiva University dispute can model how intra-Jewish disputes should be carried on,” Jonathan Sarna told JNS. Emily Goldberg Rabbi Steve Greenberg, the founding director of Eshel, whose mission is “to build LGBTQ+ inclusive Orthodox Jewish communities,” holds rabbinic ordination and an undergraduate degree from Yeshiva. He told [more]
May 21, 2025 | Eshel in the News
(RNS) — It feels even scarier in 2025, not knowing if I will be targeted for the mezuzah on my door or the pride flag I have hanging. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1600"] A Star of David pride flag during a Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Ted Eytan (CC BY 4.0))[/caption] By Ely [more]
May 7, 2025 | Eshel in the News
by Rabbi Steve Greenberg Senior rabbis at Yeshiva University were ready to quit. The impetus for their drastic threat to leave was the administration’s recent settlement agreement to let a small group of LGBTQ students meet over pizza. It is the most recent chapter in a 2021 lawsuit brought against Yeshiva University by the YU [more]
Apr 2, 2025 | Eshel in the News
By Louis Keene 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 [more]
Mar 24, 2025 | Eshel in the News
By Jackie Hajdenberg Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, a prominent and empathetic voice on contemporary issues facing Jews in the Orthodox world, died early Friday morning in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. He was 43. Fink, a married father of three, was a lawyer and the former rabbi of the Pacific Jewish [more]
Mar 21, 2025 | Eshel in the News
By Yonat Shimron (RNS) — Yeshiva University in New York City has settled a long-running lawsuit with its LGBTQ+ club by agreeing to formally recognize the group and give it all the rights and privileges of other clubs on campus. The settlement ended a bitter four-year battle in which the Modern Orthodox Jewish school had [more]
