Reply To: Donating a Gemara to a Catholic College

What on earth Jewish-Christian Studies is I have no idea. Would we have to tear kriah upon finding out? Brill cannot be considered a serious source of anything having to do with Torah or Judaism. He misquotes Rashi and apparently does not have the ability to understand what is otherwise a very simple makor. (http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2005/07/what-did-rashi-say-re-dr-alan-brill.html). According to YU sources, he was denied tenure there due to loopholes in his “scholarship,” which is very academic, and as a natural result, dismissive and even derisive of what we fundamentally believe as frum yidden.

Nonetheless, the presence of such a professor does not make something halachically permissible. There are no classes offered at SHU in anything to do with Academic Talmud or anything of the sort. In addition, most of those students are Catholics; this is the audience SHU is catering to. Just because a liberal MO professor teaches at SHU does not justify something which is shrouded in very shady terms, as was noted in Clifford Meth’s priase of the Catholic academic enterprise.