It's Wednesday, September 14, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

Religious liberty issues arise these days almost on a daily basis,

and one of the things we have to watch is that some of these stories,

upon reflection, turn out to be even bigger than they may have appeared

to have been when the story first broke.

An illustration of that comes to us from the city of New York and from a Jewish university, and not just any Jewish university, the flagship

university of the movement within Judaism known as modern Orthodoxy.

We're talking about Yeshiva University.

Now actually we're going to use that word in multiple

senses today, the word yeshiva. It traditionally goes back to the name of a particularly

and characteristic Jewish school, A school historically for boys in order to ground

them in Jewish tradition, to teach them Hebrew, and to train them in the study of Jewish texts. So a yeshiva is a boy school but exploded

into the size of a modern research university. Yeshiva University founded in

New York in 1886 as a result of the great Jewish

migration to the United States during those crucial decades in the 19th century

it has been one of the most highly visible and symbolic institutions of modern Judaism.

But yeshiva University made the headlines repeatedly this year.

The first headline of real consequence came in June just as we went into the summer and the headline told us that a state court judge there in New York had ordered Yeshiva University a Jewish university that teaches religious studies and is incredibly

Jewish in terms of its identity, its culture, its association.

The state court judge ordered that Yeshiva University as even the leading institution of modern

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