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If you’ll be in NYC on Thursday night and you have a hankering for free vodka, free knishes or the general debauchery both of those delightful things imply the world over, join me at Heeb Magazine‘s 10th anniversary party. And if you’re still not convinced — or you wanna know what the actual details are…
Big news, folks. Three American Jewish seminaries have been pronounced “sexually healthy:” Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Reform seminary with branches in Cincinnati, New York City and Los Angeles Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the — you guessed it — Reconstructionist seminary in Philly Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative seminary in New York City The Religious…
You may recall our story from last week about David Deerson, the Bible-quoting Jewish college student who supports Ron Paul. (If you haven’t read it yet, you should.) Someone called Adrian Wainer read it and attempted to deposit the following comment. He begins by quoting Deerson from the article: “‘I think it [a Jewish State]…
As JTA reported on Friday, Atlanta Jewish Times Owner/Publisher Andrew Adler had what I can only assume was a 1,000-word psychotic episode in print a couple of weeks ago. This unfortunate loss of his mental faculties caused him to propose that, among other options Israel must obviously be mulling over for the sake of its own security,…
It took New Voices Associate Editor Zach C. Cohen (also recently dubbed New Voices politics correspondent as well) some time to find a Jewish student who supports Ron Paul, but our ace reporter found one. Check out his story: David Deerson went to Jewish day school, attended and worked at a Jewish summer camp and…
I listen to NPR’s Planet Money podcast to understand basic news about the economy because it puts things simply. And because I don’t know my head from my ass when it comes to economics. But sometimes they take hard economics and deploy it as a way of looking at something in the news in a…
New Voices (and the YU Beacon) has been included in a “Most Viral Student Media of 2011” list by Dan Reimold, official curator of all things important in the college media world. Any college journalist who isn’t following Reimold is doing it wrong. His blog, College Media Matters covers the most innovative corners of the…
Last week, New Voices (and everyone else on the planet) reported on the tale of the YU Beacon, a Yeshiva University student newspaper that decided to go independent to save itself from censorship. This week, it’s all about the editorials, including two op-eds — not one, but two! — from Beacon editor and New Voices…
The tale of the newly severed ties between Yeshiva University and the YU Beacon, the most controversial of YU’s several student newspapers, is over. But the telling of the tale continues: The New York Times arrived a little late to the party, but God forbid they should ever miss out on a quirky Jew-y New York…
Updated, 2:20 p.m., 12/9/11: I added a bit about Failed Messiah’s piece on the story. On Wednesday, New Voices broke the news that the YU Beacon, a student newspaper at Yeshiva University was in hot water over an anonymous article about a sexual encounter. Then The Jewish Daily Forward‘s Sisterhood blog had a short post about…
The YU Beacon, an all-online newspaper published by the students of Yeshiva University, has attracted non-stop controversy since its inception about a year ago. The Beacon was founded by Simi Lampert, Ilana Hostyk and Tali Adler — a trio of students at YU’s Stern College for Women who had run out of patience with the status quo at an existing YU newspaper.
A few months into its existence, the Beacon became an official YU publication. “People had a lot of doubts that we could go on without being censored,” Lampert told New Voices over the phone today. But the staff quickly agreed that if YU ever tried to censor the Beacon, “we would pull out from being funded by YU.”
Their resolve on that point was tested this week. An anonymous piece was published in the Beacon, written from the point of view of a female YU student told the story of the narrator’s sexual encounter with her male lover in a hotel room. Thousands of hits and hundreds of comments later, they were asked to remove the article.
The situation came to a head last night when Lampert and Toviah Moldwin, the current co-editors-in-chief of the Beacon, met with administrators and student leaders. Lampert and Moldwin decided it was time for YU and Beacon to part ways.
As we first reported earlier today, the editors-in-chief of the YU Beacon, the most daring of Yeshiva University’s three (!) student newspapers met at 5 p.m. with a group of YU administrators. The administrators were threatening to cut off the Beacon’s funding in response to an article about a…
Updated at 3:42 p.m. — New Voices has now re-published the censored article in its entirety. At 5:00 p.m. today, Simi Lampert and Toviah Moldwin, co-founders and co-editors-in-chief of the YU Beacon will sit down with four Yeshiva University administrators who they fear will threaten to pull the Beacon’s funding. The meeting was called in response to an…
Last week, we published an article about acclaimed (by the sort of people who acclaim such things) Holocaust denier Arthur R. Butz, a professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University. Yesterday, I put together a blog post featuring some of the emails I received in response to that article, all of them from members of…
Latest on Rav Bina: Karate rabbi comes to aid of abuse rabbi [Parsing]
Rabbi Ari Fuld wrote to Jewish student press hero Yedidya Gorsetman to say, among other things: ‘I truly believe you are an evil person’ for ‘trying to murder Rav Bina with your pen.’ He also compared Gorsetman to a dead fish and began his missive by saying, “I am not trying to threaten you in any way.” Which…