Transgender YU professor stirs up controversy
http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/this_weeks_issue/news/?content_id=55649/12/2008
At Yeshiva University in New York City, the battle over the status of
Joy Ladin, a tenured English professor and Amherst, Mass. resident who
recently underwent gender alteration, has culminated in an unofficial
reinstatement. But as Ladin reassumed her duties this week, some
questioned the university's decision.
"I think [interpreting Yeshiva's decision] depends on how Yeshiva
University sees itself," said Haredi Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of
public affairs for Agudath Israel of America. "If Yeshiva sees itself
as just another university with a Jewish tinge to it, then they are
acting appropriately. But if the word yeshiva is meaningfully put
before the word university, then this is something that is
unacceptable from a Jewish standpoint."
