I went to YU and was the distributor of the Aguda’s Jewish Observor magazine. I wore and continue to wear a kipa sruga. YU has all the hashkofos (except for Neturay Karta) that are found in the Yeshivishe Velt. In my eyes (and I assume Hakadosh Baruch Hu’s as well, yes I AM talking in His (or Her) Place), they are ALL “kosher” hashkafos.
Why in Heaven’s name have we put on ourselves artificial labels?! Is this what we are going to be asked on Yom HaDin?! Or, “Noasata Venotato B’Emunah”? The bottom line is the Shulhan Aruch, do we believe in it or not? Loshon Hara, Motzi Shem Ra are WORSE than eating Hazer, yet to even ask such a question in the public ether is tolerated?! Oy lanu meyom Hadin… that we have reached such a level of stupidity, and I don’t have any other words for this kind of question. Does it really make a difference if someone says a Mishberach for our brave Israeli soldiers who protect the yeshiva bochurim in Meah Shearim just as they do for the kollels in Tel Aviv? Yes! Tel Aviv! Is it a sin today to say Misheberach for the soldiers in Ponovich or Mir on Shabbos? Is this Hakaras Hatov that the Yeshiva world has for the soldiers who give their lives in protecting them? All I can say is stupidity and fear were the first 2 aveiros that Adam and Chava committed in Gan Eden, you may say the root is lack of Hakoras Hatov as well, something which we in Golus and in Israel still seem to be suffering 6000 years later because we did not learn their lesson.