Yeshiva University, the Orthodox Jewish college in Manhattan with the transgendered professor, is in another uproar because the school's online newspaper, The Beacon, published a personal essay about an unmarried woman's hotel tryst.
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Sex Story In Orthodox Jewish College Paper Divides Yeshiva University
Dreidel Spinning Record Broken In Time For Hanukkah
Mazel tov! Yeshiva University students were trying to get 541 people to break the Guinness World Record for simultaneously spinning dreidels, but the miracle of Hanukkah gave them even more! 618 people gathered last night for "Dreidelpalooza" to beat the record and raise scholarship money for the University. And though Guinness still has to verify the record, it looks like the mission was accomplished. It's probably because everyone got this epic pep talk:
Yeshiva Needs 540 Dreidel Spinners To Break World Record
Chanukah, everyone's favorite not-really-a-high-holiday-but-let's-treat-it-like-one-anyway holiday, starts on December 2nd, bringing with it all the thrills of playing dreidel. And two Yeshiva University students are trying to make the game about more than just cheating your cousins out of all their gelt. Tomorrow's "Dreidelpalooza," organized by two Yeshiva University students, will attempt to draw over 540 dreidel spinners to get the whole thing into the Guinness Book of World Records.
Transgender Professor Turns Heads at Yeshiva U.
After a two year absence, 47-year-old Yeshiva University literature professor Jay Ladin returned to school last week as Joy Ladin, putting the oy in Joy by arriving at the midtown campus wearing a black skirt and pink lipstick. According to the head of the National Center for Transgender Equality, Ladin is the only transgender employee of a religiously conservative university in America.
Gribenes Grief at 2nd Avenue Deli
The initial news of the legendary 2nd Avenue Deli’s reincarnation led us to stockpile Lipitor as visions of pastrami, chopped liver and gribenes danced through our heads. And when we feasted our eyes on the sneak preview of this fresser’s paradise, we could hardly wait to go and devour more of the menu.
Higher Education Pays
The Chronicle of Higher Education released its annual salary survey of the heads of educational institutions and the value of a college education is evidenced in the paychecks being cashed by institutions' presidents. More than a dozen heads of private universities took home more than $1 million during the 2005-06 school year. According to the New York Post, the dean of higher earning was Donald Ross, who took home $5.7 million--most in deferred compensation after...
L Train: Crowded For the Foreseeable Future
L train riders, your patience, as well as personal space, will be tested for at least another three years. The NY Times reports that an additional 64 train cars that would take advantage of the "high-tech signal system" the MTA spent so much time installing won't be on tracks before January 2010. Which means that you'll have to make do with waiting for now!
Class of 2007 Fever
Congratulations to everyone graduating this month! As NYU's commencement was today, with speaker jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, we decided to list the many NYC commencement speakers, with help from The Chronicle of Higher Education (if we've missed any or gotten it wrong, let us know in comments):
Jew York Jewniversity: We Gots More Jews Than You!
If you had to guess which public or private University in America had the most Jews, you might be tempted to guess Yeshiva University uptown, or perhaps Brooklyn College-- but you'd be so so wrong. The real answer is NYU! Yep, it turns out that our homely downtown alma mater has more Jews than any other school in the country-- so step off, University of Maryland! Washington Square News has the report:
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