yid.period -“…. and to think, I never knew “liberal pressure” was justification for compromising halacha and Torah standards!
If anything I would say YU condemning the event that unintentionally was perceived as supporting toeivah and instituting new policies to ensure events like that would not happen again, is much more within normative halacha and daas Torah than reinstating an official group/ club explicitly supporting toevah (alliance… etc), even if it was because of political pressure. (I’m not intending to knock Touro, only point out how this whole discussion is perpetuated by silly comments and double standards)”
Of course you are trying to knock Touro, because R. Dr. Lander came from YU and did what YU has been trying to do for a hunderd years -namely have a Jewish institution that you can get a college degree with. The only difference is Touro follows Halacha!
Do all you YU guys think you are Poiskim? If you read what I posted -you would have seen some of these “libs” were gov. agencies. They wouldn’t have let it go. So maybe Touro decided or they asked a Shaila before they did what they did. The Shaila probably was either close down the whole TU or give into these bodies demanding funding for the Toevaniks. I guess the answer was they weren’t Mechyav to lose millions of dollars just so they wouldn’t have to support some Toevaniks as long as the world knows (which they do -not like YU – were they think YU is Pro -Toevaniks) this was basically against their will. This would be called an Oiness acc. to the Torah.
As far as YU -Yes – you can do Teshuva on the massive Chillul Hashem and Pritzus & Nivel Peh B’rabim (in public) that their Toeva Forum caused. But Is it a real Teshuva? They planned this themselves from the begining – there was no pressure from any gov. or any other group to do it -it was all their own idea. And after they got negative press from the world of people who are anti-Toeva – they retracted. So if they did it for this reason -that they had gotten bad PR because of it, instead of because it was the wrong thing to do -this isn’t called Teshuva.
I’m not just saying this to knock YU, (like you say about Touro), but a pattern emerges -they do things wrong and then they say – Sorry -Chotosy, we didn’t mean it. Like with the Beacon articles. So if they keep doing things wrong and everytime the Frum world explodes about it and only then do they regret it -this smells (Shmect) of a Not proper Teshuva and a lack of Yiras Shomayim!