In light of the recent expose by the Forward based on two articles previously published in the Beacon, we would like to reiterate our mission statement: With communication so facilitated by modern technology, information and opinion spread at a speed that can bewilder the mind. Every second, on scores of different sites, another article [...]
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The Beacon spent a bit of time under the scrutiny of people everywhere, from New York to New Zealand, from the United Arab Emirates to Taiwan. It’s now been two weeks since the “sex article” was posted, and, in line with our fortnightly schedule, it’s time for a new Beacon issue. While many of our [...]
ReadTo the Editors: The Beacon recently published an article (“How Do I Even Begin To Explain This,” Dec 5) that has generated a fair amount of attention and controversy. While I fully support the editors’ decision to publish the article despite it’s unorthodox content, the ways in which the editors handled the implications and consequences [...]
Read“A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.” Benjamin Disraeli said this. This statement sums up what a university is supposed to do, and it is slowly but surely being warped by Yeshiva University. In the past weeks a number of fascinating things happened at Yeshiva University. An article about [...]
ReadThousands of hits. Press coverage from Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and beyond. That’s quite impressive for one anonymously published, prosaically unimpressive, deeply ambivalent piece of work. The edition of The Beacon in which this forever-notorious article so innocently lounged hosted a dynamic array of other, thought-provoking, content-driven, well-researched and [...]
ReadThere is a famous story that was told by Rav Nachman of Breslov (retold by his student R’ Natan and collected in “Sippurei Ma’asiot”) that goes like this: A prince once became mad and thought that he was a turkey. He felt compelled to sit naked under the table, pecking at bones and pieces of [...]
ReadThe YU Beacon, a relatively obscure literary journal, earned itself some free publicity by publishing an article last week about a nocturnal tryst between a Stern College student and her boyfriend in a hotel room, after which she feels a deep sense of shame when she realizes that he doesn’t love her and just used [...]
ReadI was disgusted to see the multitude of negative, disparaging comments in response to the article “How Do I Even Begin To Explain This.” The comments described the article as inappropriate for a frum newspaper and a waste of time. They bashed the author for publicizing a horrific aveira, and made crude jokes relating to [...]
ReadWhen I attended YU, like many of my friends, I had what could be described as a benign attitude towards YU. I was by no means an absent student, as I headed several clubs and participated in shabbatons, but I never felt a particularly positive or negative attitude towards YU. Surprisingly, the first time I [...]
ReadIf you’re looking for another titillating story of drunken Stern girls throwing off bras, sexily drunk, you can stop right here. This is no confessional and none of you are sex-starved priests. Let’s elevate this discussion a little, shall we? I am a well-off-the-derech young woman, who came from the collection of yeshivas in the [...]
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