The dean’s position is not one that garners support from the mainstream media. The students seeking the university’s sanction sued the university, arguing that the city’s ordinances do not permit the university to choose what belief systems it endorses in practice. The dean found himself and the university in court after declining to assist in the founding of an official university student group whose mission, stated values, and planned activities would directly undermine the university’s religious beliefs and doctrine. In August, Yeshiva’s dean pled with a New York judge to permit the university to continue operating according to its Orthodox Jewish faith. Rather, these efforts are often openly opposed.
Alumni like Herman Wouk and Chaim Potok have told the world the Jewish communities’ stories through books like War and Remembrance, Wanderings, The Chosen, and The Gift of Asher Lev.īut the university’s efforts to preserve the faith in a changing world are not always celebrated by its contemporaries. Just blocks away from Broadway, new generations of Jewish leaders have been formed at Yeshiva, through programs like the Jewish Living and Learning initiatives “Torah Studies,” “Sephardic Programs,” and Center for the Jewish Future. The crises of succeeding decades proved this mission more important than even its founders could have known.įor more than a century, the university has fulfilled its mission. In 1886, Yeshiva University was founded to ensure that authentically Jewish education would be formally preserved and passed down in the United States. The passing on of a faith cannot be left to chance, as the Jewish community knows.
The faith endures despite New York’s relentless revolutions because each generation of the faithful instructs the next in the prayers, language, history, and traditions of their people-how to love the law and to live in humble submission to the Creator’s guidance. The faith which began almost before recorded history has remained vibrant as yellow taxi cabs replaced horses and buggies around Central Park, and rideshare sedans now vie for the customers of yellow cabs. The Orthodox Jewish community has been one of the crown jewels of New York City’s famous mosaic of cultures for centuries.
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