Yeshiva University is starting its own club for LGBTQ students on its Upper Manhattan campus, the school announced on Monday.
University officials billed the new group as “an approved traditional Orthodox Alternative to YU Pride Alliance” in a memo to the community — referring to the student-led club that“We have been working to formulate a Torah framework to provide our LGBTQ students with an enhanced support system that continues to facilitate their religious growth and personal life journeys,” reads the letter from YU President Ari Berman, Rabbi Hershel Schachter of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and...
“Where they can support one another, where they can share experiences, where they can enjoy some recreation together, where they can have events that that support their mission,” said Baxter, representing the university.The group — which already has sign-off from university officials — will be a separate club from the YU Pride Alliance.
Baxter said that students from that club would be encouraged to join the new group, though the university anticipates the ongoing lawsuit will continue.