Comments on: Op-Ed: A Tale Of Two Cities; Yeshiva University & Lakewood

By: charliehall

charliehall — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:31:21 +0000

“The REITS graduate rabbonim from recent years are quite impressive.”

True.

” It is a far different REITS than it was in the 1960′s and 1970′s.”

The 1960s and 1970s RIETS produced Rabbis Hershel Schachter and Mordechai Willig. I find them quite impressive as well.

By: Getzel

Getzel — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:30:18 +0000

I respect and admire all the talmidim at YU.

Read my comment again, the institution is becoming more and more secular and more and more liberal, many of my family members are in YU, some work there, they all agree it’s not the same as it used to be.

Let’s look at history, once u change to the worse, downhill is very quick…. The bottem of the hill is reform chas vesholom.

By: Dr Uri Bakay

Dr Uri Bakay — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:28:42 +0000

This editorial lacks any common sense. The adopt a kollel just started. Give it a year and when people can’t afford to pay their own kids tuitions very quickly there will be no money left to support outsiders. The article doesn’t mention the cause of YU’s problems. First executive compensations, the deans, chancelor, president are getting in excess of 800K a piece. Second the major medical schools are not accepting YU students anymore like they used to. Third it is just simply too expensive for anyone who wants to pursue a professional degree like law or medicine to pay close to 100K for undergrad and then another 200K for law or med school. Fourth it used to be if you wnated to learn in the morning and go to college you needed to go to YU. Now there are many options like going to yeshiva by day and going to Queens College or Touro at night. Fifth Lander College is a more frumer option for many people and seems to be growing every year.

By: Mr. Harry

Mr. Harry — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:27:55 +0000

Cut the gay rights from their campuses, and they will be saved.

By: Gilatzky

Gilatzky — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:13:13 +0000

Clearly a lot of the commentators here have no clue as to what YU really is about. I come from a YU family, a strong rabbinic family. My uncle is a rosh kollel at YU.
What is it exactly that u have against it anyway? Is it the fact that the guys graduating have a REAL degree? Is it maybe the fact that they are pro Israel? I don’t know…I’m trying to figure out the reason for such שנאת חינם, especially now that we’re going through such difficult times.
אהבת ישראל is what we all need to focus on, and not what u ppl are doing.
Gilad Michael ben Bat Galim
Yaakov Naftali ben Rachel
Eyal ben Iris Teshura

By: YITZCHOK2

YITZCHOK2 — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:15:12 +0000

Most of YU’S alumni are treated nice by the modern orthodox community once they graduate. Once you leave a yeshivishe institution nobody really cares about you unless you make it big! If you can’t afford to pay tuition you need to grovel to get your kid into a yeshiva. It’s pretty ironic that in every shul that has an adopt a kollel many of the shul members are personally struggling but nobody cares. My message to YU stay away from us we certainly do not have it right!!!

By: lkwdmama

lkwdmama — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:05:34 +0000

While many of us don’t agree with YU’s religious views, they do a tremendous amount of good for a certain segment of klal Yisrael. YU attracts many baalei teshuva who were turned onto Yiddishkeit by NCSY and other kiruv groups and would normally have ended up on secular college campuses where, C”V, they can easily backslide. Many of them want to go to yeshiva, but their parents want them to get a “real” education. YU offers a solution that satisfies both sides.
That said, isn’t it possible that YU is going bankrupt not because of Bernie Madoff and bad investments, but because one of their roshei yeshiva started the whole metzitza b’peh kerfuffle by maasering on an innocent mohel?

By: bringmoshiach

bringmoshiach — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:50:36 +0000

#1 -Last time I checked, the Gemara Shabbos that YU learned this year was the same one in BMG’s Beis Medrash.

#2,3&5 -Have you guys ever even been to YU to know what it’s like?

By: vashti_schwartz

vashti_schwartz — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:45:47 +0000

They should also learn how to better cover up certain crimes. They have not done as good a job as Lakewood has with cover-ups.

By: Chochom-ibber

Chochom-ibber — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:48:28 +0000

A) The leadership will never take responsibility. Realise you are dealing with people whom will use whatever position and money that can to rub shoulders with the even more corrupt.

B) The modern orthodox Synagogues do not have the giving mentality that we inherently have. The more ‘right’ you go (e.g. Lawrence to Flatbush to Lakewood to Geulah) the more money per-capita per-income-ratio is given. Fact. Speak to the local collectors.

C) IF Rabbi Schechter wants to split off from the YU bureaucracy I am positive he will find the funds to support his Yehsiva.