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Emily Goldberg

Emily Goldberg

Emily Goldberg is a writer in New York City and editor-in-chief of the YU Observer, a Yeshiva University student newspaper.

“One hopes that both sides in the Yeshiva University dispute can model how intra-Jewish disputes should be carried on,” Jonathan Sarna told JNS.
“This whole boycotting of political figures, which is clearly one-sided, speaks to a larger problem we are seeing in our country,” a graduate told JNS. “People are too invested in politics and in which ‘side’ they are on.”
“My position, then as now, emphatically rejects the ideology, lifestyle and behaviors which the LGBTQ term represents,” wrote one of the university’s most senior rabbis.
“I am grateful as we move ahead together in the spirit of a unified campus culture,” Sara Asher, dean of students at Yeshiva University, told JNS.
“It has never been more important to condemn this moral depravity, demand accountability and implement President Trump’s America First peace through strength agenda,” Rep. Elise Stefanik told JNS.
“But it’s a deal that should have been done a long time ago,” Jason Greenberg told JNS.
Anti-Israel terror “needs to be understood by the people who fought against it, who grew up as part of it, who have sacrificed in the face of it,” Benjamin Anthony, who leads the MirYam Institute, told JNS.
The songwriter, who goes by Five for Fighting, isn’t Jewish, but he created the song “OK” in solidarity with Israel.
“It’s so important to show the Israeli people and the world at large that Israel has a strong supportive base,” a Yeshiva University senior told JNS.
Bonnie Pomper, whose nephew Hersh Goldberg-Polin was executed by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, told JNS that studying the Mishnah made her appreciate “mundane” prayers she has said by “rote.”