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She cheerfully strutted through the doors of the Midtown campus&#8217; main building, where she oversees the writing center.<\/p>\n<p>Many at the Jewish university are horrified by the presence of the transgender professor. Some fear the news could cut alumni donations.<\/p>\n<p>Ladin and the school won&#8217;t comment on the situation, but some rabbis are shocked that she&#8217;s still a member of the faculty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/news.htm\"><strong>Get MORE News at NYPost.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#8217;s not a woman. He&#8217;s a male with enlarged breasts,&quot; said Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a senior dean at Yeshiva&#8217;s rabbinical school and a professor of biology and medical ethics. &quot;He&#8217;s a person who represents a kind of amorality which runs counter to everything Yeshiva University stands for. 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