"Let’s also look at #5 on the list of causes the students marched for. It reads: “YU Students should be allowed to have a Gay-Straight Alliance on campus. It must be clear it is a GSA.” GSA Network defines a GSA in the following way:
"GSA clubs, or GSAs for short, are student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities. GSAs have evolved beyond their traditional role to serve as safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth in middle schools and high schools, and have emerged as vehicles for deep social change related to racial, gender, and educational justice [emph mine].
A growing body of research confirms that the presence of a GSA has a positive and lasting effect on student health, wellness, and academic performance. It can also protect students from harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and improve school climates for all students in the long-term."
The difficulty of having a GSA on a religious campus is that the club is no longer there merely to serve as a safe space and support group. The club comes with a focus on "social change related to racial, gender and educational justice." That social change declares that gender is a construct and therefore one can transition between genders, something which traditional Judaism and halakha does not support. It also advocates for acting upon one's sexuality (having a sexual or romantic relationship with a partner of the same gender), which once again, clashes with halakha.
The authors and their supportes have to choose whether they are part of the community whose lives are dictated by adherence to Halacha or by their adherence to the LGBT world. Both Randi Weingarten and Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel are both Cardozo graduates-the authors and their supporters should be intellectually honest to say whether their allegiance is to Halacha or the woke LGBTagenda
I just heard that Pee Wee Herman’s dad was the founding pilot of the Israeli Air Force?! If so, that’s a tale that needs telling. Looking forward to it!
I stand with the booksellers! ❤️
I write in response to the article by Messrs Netanel Zellis-Paley and E.Y. Zipris. I refer the readers here to this uperb column https://parshawithchana.substack.com/p/lgbtq-club-at-yeshiva-university and the stark reality posed as follows by its author:
"Let’s also look at #5 on the list of causes the students marched for. It reads: “YU Students should be allowed to have a Gay-Straight Alliance on campus. It must be clear it is a GSA.” GSA Network defines a GSA in the following way:
"GSA clubs, or GSAs for short, are student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities. GSAs have evolved beyond their traditional role to serve as safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth in middle schools and high schools, and have emerged as vehicles for deep social change related to racial, gender, and educational justice [emph mine].
A growing body of research confirms that the presence of a GSA has a positive and lasting effect on student health, wellness, and academic performance. It can also protect students from harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity, and improve school climates for all students in the long-term."
The difficulty of having a GSA on a religious campus is that the club is no longer there merely to serve as a safe space and support group. The club comes with a focus on "social change related to racial, gender and educational justice." That social change declares that gender is a construct and therefore one can transition between genders, something which traditional Judaism and halakha does not support. It also advocates for acting upon one's sexuality (having a sexual or romantic relationship with a partner of the same gender), which once again, clashes with halakha.
The authors and their supportes have to choose whether they are part of the community whose lives are dictated by adherence to Halacha or by their adherence to the LGBT world. Both Randi Weingarten and Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel are both Cardozo graduates-the authors and their supporters should be intellectually honest to say whether their allegiance is to Halacha or the woke LGBTagenda
Paragraph 3 on unrest in Gaza strip. Unrest is fomented. Not fermented.
I just heard that Pee Wee Herman’s dad was the founding pilot of the Israeli Air Force?! If so, that’s a tale that needs telling. Looking forward to it!
*fomenting the unrest (would be curious if Islamists were, indeed, “fermenting” something)