Reply To: To add to the list of YU’s sins

Ishpurim, i find it telling that you put belkin and revel – confirmed naskilim – together with the legitimate talmidei chachamim who taught at YU over the years. Belkin and revel had about as much to do with telz and radin as bialik had to do with volozhin.

The chofetz chaim, of radin, vociferously opposed modernity,as did the telzer roshei yeshiva.

Rav shatzkes, rav gorelick, and rabbi yoshe ber were definitely talmidei chachamim, the former two being completely non controversial and often quoted in the most yeshivish of batei nedrash. They have zero in common with belkin and revel; did you just compile a list by googling roshei yeshiva and where they came from?

You alsl omitted the mitchiter iliui and rav shimon shkop; gotta be comprehensive.

But that doesn’t mean it was the best yeshiva; the talmidim were not very frum, the hanhalah wasn’t either, plagued by forces like revel and belkin who wished to undermine the concept of a beis nedrash. Norman lamm actually exposed belkin’s devious plot to ruin Torah study there – of course lamm had his own issues with sinas hatorah vlomdeah, but he was a step up from belkin. I heard this from an old YU talmid.

Hebrew national has no serious oversight. Their shochtim aren’t mainstream; no one knows what actually goes on there, and the triangle K has issues with how it conducts hashgocha, despite whatever policies it has that are approved by rabbi ralbag. Who told you that r. Ralbag is a “world recognized” anything? He’s a young Israel rabbi who’s into the Gra and is known for knowing how to learn….no one in the yeshiva world considers him a major posek or anything.