The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is taking steps to distance itself from the policies of its parent institution Yeshiva University, after Yeshiva's legal efforts to block an undergraduate LGBT student group reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
More than 50 Cardozo law faculty have signed a letter opposing the university's ban, and the law school is launching a six-week course devoted to the LGBT civil rights movement, which it announced to students as the Supreme Court was weighing the case.
A Yeshiva University spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment. On Friday the universityUndergraduates at Yeshiva University have been trying for several years to officially establish an organization called the Y.U. Pride Alliance. But the Manhattan-based Modern Orthodox Jewish university has called the group “inconsistent with the school's Torah values and the religious environment it seeks to maintain.
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