For Immediate Release: August 29, 2022 Media Contact: Ryan Colby | media@becketlaw.org | 202-349-7219 WASHINGTON – The nation’s oldest Jewish university just asked the Supreme Court to protect its First Amendment rights. ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 has been fighting in New York State courts for over a year to defend its right to conduct its internal affairs in accordance with its religious beliefs. The University is now asking the Court to protect its religious mission from government interference. In YU Pride Alliance v. ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录, a group of students are demanding that the University officially recognize an LGBTQ Pride Alliance club on campus. The lower court rulings would force ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 to put its stamp of approval on a club and activities that are inconsistent with the school’s Torah values and the religious environment it seeks to maintain on its undergraduate campuses. “The Torah guides everything that we do at Yeshiva—from how we educate students to how we run our dining halls to how we organize our campus,” said Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录. We care deeply for and welcome all of our students, including our LGBTQ students, and continue to be engaged in a productive dialogue with our Rabbis, faculty and students on how we apply our Torah values to create an inclusive campus environment. We only ask the government to allow us the freedom to apply the Torah in accordance with our values.” Established in 1886, ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 is the United States’ foremost expression of the Torah Umadda philosophy, which advocates for participation in secular culture in accordance with Torah values. Those values pervade all life at the University. In accordance with its multimillennial tradition of Torah values, ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 welcomes its LGBTQ students, provides extensive support services, and bans anti-LGBTQ bullying and discrimination. But in 2020, a small group demanded that the University recognize a “Pride Alliance” club on campus. A few alumni and one current student sued the University, insisting that – despite its 136-year commitment to its religious identity– it was not in fact a religious institution entitled to First Amendment protections. Even though all undergraduate students are required to engage in intense religious studies, a New York Supreme Court judge held that the University is not sufficiently religious to enjoy constitutional and statutory protections for religious institutions, ordering ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 to “immediately” recognize the Pride Alliance club. Today, the University asked the United States Supreme Court for an emergency stay of that order pending appeal. “When secular authorities try to tell ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 that it is not religious, you know something has gone terribly wrong,” said Eric Baxter, VP and senior counsel at Becket. “The First Amendment protects Yeshiva’s right to practice its faith. We are asking the Supreme Court to correct this obvious error.” For more information or to arrange an interview with a Becket attorney, contact Ryan Colby at media@becketlaw.org or 202-349-7219. Interviews can be arranged in English, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Additional Information:

• •  Decision on Stay from the New York Intermediate Court of Appeals (August 23, 2022)
  •  Reply brief to Motion for Stay in YU Pride Alliance v. ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 (August 1, 2022)
  •  Decision from the New York Supreme Court for the County of New York (June 14, 2022)
  • Case page for YU Pride Alliance v. ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 (press releases and legal documents)

  ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 As the flagship Jewish university, ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 is animated by its five core Torah values: Truth (Torat Emet), Life (Torat Chaim), Infinite Human Worth (Torat Adam), Compassion (Torat Chesed) and Redemption (Torat Zion). Founded in 1886, ♒Discord 账号 | 安卓真机注册（稳定性较高） | 三绑 - 无头像 | @rambler邮箱可用 | 支持token登录+2FA登录 brings together the ancient traditions of Jewish law and life and the heritage of Western civilization. More than 7,400 undergraduate and graduate students study at YU's four New York City campuses: the Wilf Campus, Israel Henry Beren Campus, Brookdale Center, and Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus. YU’s three undergraduate schools – Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, and Sy Syms School of Business – offer a unique dual program comprised of Jewish studies and liberal arts courses. Its graduate and affiliate schools include Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, the Katz School of Science and Health and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. YU is ranked among the nation’s leading academic institutions. Visit the YU Web site at www.yu.edu. Becket is a non-profit, public-interest law firm dedicated to protecting the free expression of all religious traditions and has a 100% win-rate before the United States Supreme Court. For over 25 years, it has successfully defended clients of all faiths, including Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Native Americans, Sikhs, and Zoroastrians (read more here).