My feelings are that the YCT curriculum is acceptable; they don’t learn much out of the ordinary, but the issue is that hashkafically, they politicize many things.
Allowing non-Orthodox clergy a place on the faculty of a rabbinical school (or as YU graduate R’ Benjamin Samuels did in Newton, allowing a reform rabbi the pulpit on Shabbos) strikes me as relatvistic, that there is nothing theologically wrong with what the speaker stands for, as does supporting homosexual marriage ((R’ Asher Lopatin, incoming president of YCT, gave the invocation at a prayer breakfast for a “marriage equality” group in Illinois, saying there that “the book of Genesis determines that nobody should be alone” and so on), opposing reparative therapy (thereby adopting politicized liberal APA gobbledygook), advocating “social justice” as a worldview, paskening that saving animals on Shabbos is a pikuach nefesh case and therefore one can ch”v violate shabbos to save their pet, working together with the IWW labor union (the famous Wobblies, a self-described Marxist-leninist group), condemning anti-jihad ads in the subways (the director of recruitment at YCT is on the board of the “Jewish Muslim Volunteer Alliance,” which seeks to stifle criticism of Islam (how supporting Islam goes along with feminism is beyond me, unless you consider burkas and worse empowering for women), arguing that Israel is “immoral” in its treatment of Palestinians (the recruitment director earned the criticism of Dr. Daniel Gordis, who in spite of his JTS ordination, is a brilliant Zionist thinker and right-wing scholar), citing favorably the opinions of Freire (a Marxist) and Peter Singer (who calls for animal rights and euthanasia, not unlike a certain brutal regime of 60 years ago), arguing for liberation theology(Marxist), replacing Adon Olam with Hatikva (this isn’t a halakhic problem, but an aesthetic one; even Reform temples don’t do this), supporting left-wing “religious zionism” and the Hitnakut (through ties with Rabbis M. Melchior, J. Sacks and D. Rosen, who sit on the board of “One Voice,” a pro-Palestinian State group, along with Imam Rauf of Ground Zero mosque infamy, Dennis Ross, Talab El Sana- wanted negotiations with Assad, etc.). and a litany of other moronic liberal moves.
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