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Yeshiva University approves alternative LGBTQ group

Yeshiva University announced Monday that it would recognize a new undergraduate LGBTQ student group grounded in “Halacha and Torah values,” according to a press release from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents the Orthodox Jewish university.

The group, called the Kol Yisrael Areivim Club, was approved by the university’s administration and, according to the press release, was informed by input from current and former LGBTQ students as well as Yeshiva’s educators and rabbis.