Editing Yeshiva University (section)

==Student life==
===Student publications===
The undergraduate university newspaper is ''The Commentator'', and the newspaper for Stern College is ''The Observer''. Law students at Cardozo also edit and publish five [[Cardozo School of Law#Law journals|law journals]]. There are numerous other publications on a wide range of topics, both secular and religious, produced by the various councils and academic clubs, along with many official university publications and the university press. The call letters of the student radio station are WYUR, and it is currently an Internet-only station.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wyur.net/ |title=WYUR – Yeshiva University Student Radio |website=www.wyur.net |access-date=January 12, 2010 |archive-date=October 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030082226/http://wyur.net/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===LGBTQ+ club controversy and lawsuit===
[[file: Cardozo-lgbtq-flag-200.png|thumb|right|LGBTQ flags at YU's Cardozo School of Law (2022)]]
Yeshiva University has been involved in legal proceedings since April 2021 after it blocked official recognition of a Pride Alliance club for undergraduate LGBTQ+ students and their allies.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://yucommentator.org/2021/04/yu-and-administrators-sued-for-lgbtq-discrimination-by-yu-pride-alliance-students-and-alumni/ |title=YU and Administrators Sued for LGBTQ Discrimination by YU Pride Alliance, Students and Alumni |first=Sruli |last=Fruchter |date=April 27, 2021 |newspaper=The Commentator}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-says-orthodox-jewish-university-must-recognize-lgbtq-gro-rcna45272 |title=Supreme Court rejects Orthodox Jewish university's emergency request to deny official recognition to LGBTQ student group |first=Lawrence |last=Hurley |date=September 14, 2022 |website=[[NBC News]]}}</ref>

Controversy over LGBTQ-supportive undergraduate groups has been ongoing since at least 2009, when students created a "Tolerance Club." Its purpose was to promote acceptance of diversity of people within the Yeshiva University community. A founding member said that the group had "determined that the school’s lack of diversity has fostered significant insensitivity to those outside of the mainstream Y.U. culture" and aimed to address that issue.<ref name=new-voices>{{cite news |url=http://newvoices.org/2009/05/05/0073-2/ |title=Didn't Think Tolerance Could Be Controversial? Welcome To Yeshiva University |last=Botwinick |first=Simeon |date=May 5, 2009 |work=New Voices |publisher=Jewish Student Press Service |access-date=September 26, 2013}}</ref> The group's members included undergraduates at both the men's and women's campuses.<ref name=new-voices/> Although not organized to address LGBTQ issues specifically, the group's promotion of tolerance for sexual and gender diversity generated controversy on the Yeshiva University campus; the student newspaper reported that the administration quashed a panel discussion because they objected to one of the speakers, a gay Orthodox rabbi.<ref name=new-voices/> This controversy came to a head when the Tolerance Club sponsored a panel discussion entitled "Being Gay in the Orthodox World" in December, 2009. Several hundred people attended this panel discussion. Numerous Jewish news sources covered the panel and the conflict that enveloped the Yeshiva campus in its wake, and the Tolerance Club disbanded in May 2010.

A decade later, in 2021, undergraduate students sued the university for refusing to recognize a new [[LGBTQ]]+ student group, YU Pride Alliance.<ref name=YU-cnn>{{cite news |last=de Vogue |first=Ariane |title=Yeshiva University asks Supreme Court to let it block LGBTQ student club |date=August 29, 2022 |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/yeshiva-university-supreme-court-lgbtq-pride-alliance/index.html |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref> The university has retained the pro-religious practice law firm [[Becket Law]] as its counsel. A New York court ruled in June 2022 that the university must recognize the undergraduate Pride Alliance. The university appealed to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in August 2022, and a temporary stay was issued by Justice Sotomayor. In a 5–4 decision the full court vacated the stay without prejudice, ruling the NY appeals process was incomplete and thus SCOTUS relief premature.<ref name=YU-forward>{{cite news |title=As Yeshiva University fights to block LGBTQ group, not all its grad schools are on board |last=Kovac |first=Adam |date=August 30, 2022 |work=The Forward |url=https://forward.com/news/516114/as-yu-fights-to-block-lgbtq-group-not-all-its-grad-schools-are-on-board/ |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=U.S. Supreme Court requires Yeshiva University to allow LGBT student club |last=Chung |first=Andrew |date=August 30, 2022 |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-requires-yeshiva-university-allow-lgbt-student-club-2022-09-14/}}</ref> In response, the university put all student clubs on hold in September 2022, pending resolution of their ongoing legal challenges.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/09/17/1123638157/supreme-court-yeshiva-university-lgbtq-club |title=Yeshiva University cancels all clubs after it was ordered to allow an LGBTQ group |first=Joe |last=Hernandez |date=September 17, 2022 |accessdate=September 17, 2022 |work=[[NPR]]}}</ref> This lasted for a matter of weeks until an agreement was reached between the plaintiff and defense allowing other clubs to continue operating.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stack |first=Liam |date=2022-09-26 |title=Amid Court Fight, L.G.B.T.Q. Club Proposes a Compromise to Yeshiva |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/nyregion/yeshiva-university-lgbtq-club.html}}</ref>

YU-affiliated [[Cardozo School of Law]] and the [[Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology]] have publicly supported their own students and voiced their disapproval of the university's position and legal response. At Cardozo School of Law, there has long been an officially recognized LGBTQ+ student group, and the Graduate School of Psychology also publicly supports the LGBTQ members of their communities.<ref name=YU-forward/>

The university announced on October 24, 2022 that they approved "Kol Yisrael Areivim", a new LGBTQ student group. According to the university, this new group will be the "approved traditional Orthodox alternative to its current LGBTQ student group, the YU Pride Alliance".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lavietes |first=Matt |date=October 24, 2022 |title=Yeshiva University launches 'traditional' alternative to LGBTQ student group |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/yeshiva-university-launches-traditional-alternative-lgbtq-student-grou-rcna53761 |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> There is still a dispute with the Pride Alliance who claimed the university's action as a stunt and distraction.<ref>{{cite web |title=YU Pride Alliance Statement Regarding Kol Yisrael Areivim |url=https://www.yupridealliance.org/lawsuit-status/yu-pride-alliance-statement-regarding-kol-yisrael-areivim}}</ref> Administrators later described Kol Yisrael Areivim as "a framework within which we hope to eventually form a club".<ref>{{cite web |title=Yeshiva University's 'Newly Founded' LGBTQ Club Does Not Currently Exist; University has 'Framework' For Club |date=November 2022 |url=https://yucommentator.org/2022/11/yeshiva-universitys-newly-founded-lgbtq-club-does-not-currently-exist-university-has-framework-for-club/}}</ref> Kol Yisrael Areivim is not included on official club lists, and it does not have any student members. On April 10, 2023, student journalist reported that Kol Yisrael Areivim was still yet to hold a single event.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty-Organized Town Hall Discusses LGBTQ Issues |date=April 11, 2023 |url=https://yucommentator.org/2023/04/faculty-organized-town-hall-discusses-lgbtq-issues/}}</ref>

On March 19, 2025, Yeshiva University announced that it would recognize the LGBT student club, bringing an end to the lawsuit. The club renamed itself to "Hareni".<ref>{{cite web |title=Yeshiva University Recognizes L.G.B.T.Q. Club After Lengthy Battle |date=March 20, 2025 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/nyregion/yeshiva-university-lgbtq-club.html}}</ref>

===Undergraduate clubs and activities===
Student groups include the Yeshiva University Dramatics Society (YCDS), which puts on a performance each semester. A student-run group known as the Heights Initiative sponsors several outreach programs that work with the schools and organizations of the Washington Heights community. Student Government is run through YSU, YCSA, SOY-JSC, and SYMS. Additionally, these groups run community events like the annual Hanukkah Concert and a carnival celebrating Israeli Independence Day.

The Yeshiva University Medical Ethics Society (MES) is an undergraduate student-run organization of Yeshiva University which was founded by students in the fall of 2005 with the help of the Center for the Jewish Future toward the goal of promoting education and awareness of Jewish medical ethics in the university itself and the community at large. In the first several years, the group hosted a program of on-campus lectures in the field of medical ethics and Halakha (Jewish law). They also host genetic testing events to help combat the high incidence of various genetic diseases in the Jewish community.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

===Athletics===
[[File:Yeshiva athletics wmark.png|thumb|Yeshiva athletics wordmark]]
Yeshiva University includes a number of [[NCAA Division III]]-level sports teams. The teams, nicknamed "The Maccabees",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yu.edu/athletics/ |title=Yeshiva Maccabees homepage |publisher=Yeshiva Maccabees |access-date=August 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106061846/http://www.yu.edu./athletics |archive-date=January 6, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> include: men's baseball, basketball, golf, volleyball, wrestling, women's basketball, cross country, fencing, soccer, tennis, and volleyball.

Because of Yeshiva's dual curriculum, most of the sports teams practice at night, sometimes even as late as 11:00&nbsp;pm. A few of the sports teams practice or work out before classes begin at 9:00&nbsp;am; for example, the men's basketball team routinely practices at 6:00&nbsp;am.<ref name=Belsky>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/32542951/the-longest-winning-streak-men-college-basketball-belongs-yeshiva-university |title=The longest winning streak in men's college basketball belongs to ... Yeshiva University |first=Gary |last=Belsky |website=ESPN.com |date=November 6, 2021 |access-date=November 7, 2021}}</ref>

Teams have participated in weekend tournaments outside of New York City, with athletes staying with local families in the area. This took place in Boston with the basketball and fencing teams, and in Hollywood, Florida with the baseball team in 2008. Some international students have participated in NCAA sports, with as many as nine different nationalities representing the school on the sports field.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://spider.mc.yu.edu/news/articles/article.cfm?id=101718 |title=Players From Nine Countries Find Common Goal in Men's Soccer Team |date=November 11, 2008 |work=Yeshiva University News |publisher=Yeshiva University |access-date=August 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720125114/http://spider.mc.yu.edu/news/articles/article.cfm?id=101718 |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

====Baseball====
Two members of the Yeshiva Maccabees Baseball team were drafted out of college by professional teams of the [[Israeli Baseball League]]. Pitcher Aryeh Rosenbaum celebrated a championship with his team in the IBL's first year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skylineconference.org/News/bball/2007/6/12/israel_baseball_league.asp?path=bball |title=Two former Yeshiva University Baseball players to compete in new Israeli Baseball League |author=Mike Spinner |date=December 6, 2007 |work=Yeshiva Sports Information |publisher=Skyline Conference |access-date=August 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827215255/http://www.skylineconference.org/News/bball/2007/6/12/israel_baseball_league.asp?path=bball |archive-date=August 27, 2017 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> From 2023 to 2025, the Maccabees went on a 100 game losing streak spanning three years. On April 8th, 2025, Yeshiva broke their streak with a 9–5 victory over [[Lehman College]] in the second game of a split doubleheader.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lehman (1-14) -vs- Yeshiva (1-19) |url=https://yumacs.com/sports/baseball/stats/2025/lehman-college/boxscore/6037 |url-status=live |access-date=8 April 2025}}</ref>

====Basketball====
Yeshiva's Men's Basketball team is an annual playoff contender. The most successful eras for Yeshiva basketball in recent history have been at the start and end of the 1990s, as well as the dawn of the 2020s. Banners hang in the Max Stern Athletic Center commemorating seasons from both eras. The 2007–08 season had particular note as Yeshiva was home to the [[Skyline Conference]]'s Rookie of the Year. In 2018, the team won the Skyline Conference title in a game against [[State University of New York at Purchase|SUNY Purchase]], earning its first-ever NCAA berth and considerable media coverage.<ref>Rojas, R. (1 March 2018){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/nyregion/yeshiva-university-ncaa-basketball-tournament.html |title=After Fasting and Before the Sabbath, Yeshiva Debuts in N.C.A.A. Tournament |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=March 2018 |access-date=March 5, 2018 |last1=Rojas |first1=Rick}}</ref> The current head coach of the team is [[Elliot Steinmetz]], who has been with the team since 2014.  Steinmetz succeeded Jonathan Halpert, the longest ever tenured NCAA men's basketball coach in New York City at 42 years.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schonbrun |first=Zach |date=February 22, 2014 |title=At Yeshiva, Outpouring of Support for Departing Coach |work=The New York Times |pages=D7}}</ref> Steinmetz, a practicing lawyer, has been especially successful at attracting high caliber athletes, recognizing that Yeshiva's status in the Orthodox Jewish world means its athletics programs have unique access to a global talent pool from which to recruit players.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-05 |title=The most unlikely college hoops powerhouse, centuries in the making |url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/32542951/the-longest-winning-streak-men-college-basketball-belongs-yeshiva-university |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}</ref>

In the 2019–20 season, the men's basketball team's only loss was in the season opener, with the Maccabees going on to win the Skyline Conference championship. This was the second time in three years that the Maccabees made the NCAA Division III Tournament. They won the first two rounds, pushing them into the Sweet Sixteen (3rd round) for the first time in school history. Before they played in the third round, the NCAA tournament was canceled due to COVID-19. After a 7–0 season in 2020–21 also abbreviated by COVID-19, the Maccabees entered the 2021–22 season on a 36-game winning streak, the longest current streak in NCAA men's basketball in any division, and were ranked #2 in the preseason by the Division III basketball website ''D3hoops.com''. During this streak, the team was featured by media outlets as diverse as [[ESPN]], [[CNN]], the ''[[New York Daily News]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.<ref name=Belsky/> After previous #1 [[Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets|Randolph–Macon]] lost in overtime, the Maccabees, with their winning streak having reached 44 games, inherited the #1 ranking in the ''D3hoops.com'' poll released on November 29, 2021, marking the first time any Yeshiva team had topped any national poll.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://yumacs.com/news/2021/11/29/mens-basketball-now-ranked-no-1-in-d3hoops-com-top-25-poll.aspx |title=Men's Basketball Now Ranked No. 1 in D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll |publisher=Yeshiva Maccabees |date=November 29, 2021 |access-date=November 30, 2021}}</ref> The Maccabees received recognition from the ESPN and NBA Twitter accounts for their 50th straight win, the longest winning streak in NCAA Men's Division III Basketball.<ref>{{Cite tweet |title=FIFTY straight games for Yeshiva men's basketball |author=ESPN |user=espn |number=1473756895085309971 |date=2021-12-22 |access-date=2021-12-28 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |title=Congrats to Yeshiva University men's basketball team for 50 consecutive wins |author=NBA |user=NBA |number=1475328600043921410 |date=2021-12-26 |access-date=2021-12-28 |language=en}}</ref>

As of December 29, 2021, the men's basketball team held the then-longest active winning streak in men's college basketball with 50 consecutive wins.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sales |first=Ben |date=December 26, 2021 |title=Incredulous Yeshiva U. fans watch their basketball team continue a 50-win streak |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/incredulous-yeshiva-u-fans-watch-their-basketball-team-continue-a-50-win-streak/ |access-date=2021-12-28 |website=www.timesofisrael.com |language=en-US}}</ref> On December 30, 2021, the men's basketball team lost their winning streak.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/yeshiva-us-basketball-team-loses-at-home-snapping-50-game-win-streak/ |title=Yeshiva U's basketball team loses at home, snapping 50-game win streak |date=2021-12-31 |website=The Times of Israel |last=Philissa Cramer}}</ref>

====Fencing====
One of the most successful teams in Yeshiva University sports history is the fencing team, known as the "Taubermen", named after the coach of the team, Professor Arthur Tauber, who served as the head coach of the team from 1949 through 1985. Olympic gold medalist [[Henry Wittenberg]] was at one time the coach of the wrestling team.<ref name="NYTimesObit">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/sports/10wittenberg.html?ref=obituaries |title=Henry Wittenberg, Champion Wrestler, Dies at 91 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 10, 2010 |access-date=March 10, 2010 |first=Richard |last=Goldstein}}</ref>

====Tennis====
In 2014, the Men's Tennis team won the Skyline Conference championship, becoming the first team in school history to advance to the NCAA tournament in any sport. In 2015,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.yumacs.com/news/2015/4/26/MTEN_0426154037.aspx?path=mten |title=Men's Tennis Repeats as Skyline Conference Champions, Beats Farmingdale State 5-4 |website=Yeshiva University |date=April 26, 2015 |access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref> the Men's Tennis team repeated as Skyline Conference champions and went back to the NCAA National Tournament, advancing to the second round.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.yumacs.com/news/2015/5/7/MSOC_0507151328.aspx?path=mten |title=Men's Tennis Beats Colby-Sawyer in First Round of NCAA Tournament for First NCAA Tournament Win in Yeshiva Athletics History |website=Yeshiva University |date=May 7, 2015 |access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref> They lost to the defending National Champions Amherst<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.yumacs.com/news/2015/5/8/MTEN_0508152313.aspx?path=mten |title=Men's Tennis History Making Season Ends with 5-0 Loss to Amherst in NCAA Tournament Second Round |website=Yeshiva University |date=May 8, 2015 |access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref> College. In 2016, the Men's Tennis team won the Skyline Conference a third year in a row<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.yumacs.com/news/2016/5/8/three-peat-mens-tennis-defeats-farmingdale-st-to-capture-third-straight-skyline-championship.aspx?path=mten |title=Three-peat! Men's Tennis Defeats Farmingdale State to Capture Third Straight Skyline Title |website=Yeshiva University |date=May 8, 2016 |access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref> and advancing to the NCAA D3 National Tennis Tournament again. The Men's Tennis team repeated as Skyline Conference champions in 2017 and 2018 to extend this streak of success to five consecutive NCAA National Tournament appearances.

====Other sports====
Since 2010, the Men's Cross Country and Men's Volleyball teams have won multiple championships.<ref name="hvmac">{{cite web |url=http://www.hvmac.net/sports/mxc/championships |title=Championships – Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |publisher=hvmac.net |access-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref><ref name="hvmac2">{{cite web |url=http://www.hvmac.net/sports/mvball/championships |title=Championships – Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |publisher=hvmac.net |access-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref> Many of the Maccabees have gained attention nationwide, like Sam Cohen won an individual championship as well as Capital One Academic honors.<ref name="yumacs">{{cite web |url=http://yumacs.com/news/2013/5/30/MXC_0530131159.aspx |title=Yeshiva University Athletics – Cohen Named to Capital One Academic All-District 3 NCAA Division III Men's Track/Cross Country Team |date=May 30, 2013 |publisher=yumacs.com |access-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref> Other attention grabbers come from Women's Basketball and Women's Fencing.<ref name="yumacs2">{{cite web |url=http://yumacs.com/news/2011/3/2/WFENCE_0302111248.aspx?path=wfence |title=Yeshiva University Athletics – Elizabeth Penn Earns Fencer of the Year Honors. Shaul and Goldson Earn 2nd Team at EWFC Championships |date=March 2, 2011 |publisher=yumacs.com |access-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref><ref name="yumacs3">{{cite web |url=http://yumacs.com/news/2013/4/8/WBB_0408134509.aspx |title=Yeshiva University Athletics – Yoshor Named to All Met Division III Women's College Basketball Second Team |date=April 8, 2013 |publisher=yumacs.com |access-date=June 11, 2014}}</ref>