Neville Chaim Berlin, the difference between this and open orthodoxy is that their are talmidei chachomim behind ensuring that this club is something that is from a frum hashgofo, the fact that it got Rav Herschel Schachters approval, an adam gadol, is telling. If you can find quotes of gedolei yisroel lambasting yu’s decision to have such a club I would love to see such quotes. There still is a criticism of Yu, not that they are making such a club, but that they need such a club. That they are financially dependent on the ny state government, that they attracted students that wanted a pride club. Sure they have a greater demographic of bochrim in the beis medrash learning each day than to people who would join such a club, but the fact that people would sue their own yeshiva is in of itself reflective of that yeshiva.
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