{"id":5744,"date":"2008-10-02T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2008-10-02T07:46:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T15:46:12","slug":"yus-transgendered-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5744","title":{"rendered":"YU&#8217;s Transgendered Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/hirhurim.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/transgender-professor-ii.html\">From Rabbi Gil Student<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>According to an article in <em>The Commentator<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yucommentator.com\/home\/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&amp;uStory_id=de5b6384-7012-4b3e-abb0-23bc84421a50\">link<\/a>), my judgment (<a href=\"http:\/\/hirhurim.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/transgender-professor.html\">link<\/a>) on the subject of a transgender professor at YU matched that of R. Hershel Schachter and R. Hershel Billet. The article quotes the two rabbis as follows:<br \/>\n<span style=\"height: 1%;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hirhurim.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/transgender-professor-ii.html\">Click here to read more<\/a><\/span><span class=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rabbi [Hershel] Schachter noted that many of the professors in the university are Jewish and are not observant. &quot;Why is this any different?&quot; Rabbi Schachter asked. Furthermore, there are professors in the college who are homosexual, which has not been a major source of contention for students. &quot;This is an issue every Yeshiva that teaches secular studies has to deal with,&quot; said Rabbi Schachter. He felt that YU should not dictate that its faculty hold Torah perspectives. At the same time, he felt that students should be able to take students [professors?] who share their values: &quot;if students want to boycott the course, let them boycott the course.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Herschel Billet, rabbi of the Young Israel of Woodmere and former president of the Rabbinical Council of America (RIETS &#8217;75, BRGS &#8217;80), largely agreed with Rabbi Schachter. He said, &quot;SCW, like most Orthodox Jewish schools, never required its secular faculty to be halachically observant.&quot; So long as a professor was &quot;respectful of the Orthodox Jewish character of the student body,&quot; Rabbi Billet did not feel they should alter this policy &#8211; regardless of the sexual orientation of the professor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Rabbi Gil Student: According to an article in The Commentator (link), my judgment (link) on the subject of a transgender professor at YU matched that of R. Hershel Schachter and R. Hershel Billet. The article quotes the two rabbis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4002],"tags":[945,13183,5016,13182,8121,13181],"class_list":["post-5744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirhurim","tag-gil-student","tag-jewish-character","tag-rabbinical-council-of-america","tag-riets","tag-secular-studies","tag-young-israel-of-woodmere"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5745,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}