Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, has been sued over its refusal to offer student housing to a lesbian couple. The suit, filed in late June in New York State Supreme Court, is believed to be one of the first of its kind to charge discrimination in student housing based on marital status, according to the independent Jewish Telegraphic Agency news service.

Yeshiva University has chosen the president of Hillel, the organization for Jewish college students, to be its president, starting next June. Richard M. Joel will be the first non-rabbi in the post. The school, which enrolls 6,300 students, is the nation's leading modern Orthodox university.

Yeshiva University has chosen the president of Hillel, the organization for Jewish college students, to be its president, starting next June. Richard M. Joel will be the first non-rabbi in the post. The school, which enrolls 6,300 students, is the nation's leading modern Orthodox university.

Yeshiva University has launched a graduate program in Orthodox-oriented study of Talmud and Torah for women, said to be the first university-based program of its kind in the United States. The two-year program for up to 10 women will lead to a certificate, but students have the option of simultaneously earning master's degrees tuition-free at the university's graduate school of Jewish education.

On a typical morning at the turn of the century, 15-year-old Mayer Susskind would hurry from his Manhattan tenement to the Rabbi Elchanan Theological Seminary. School days began at 8 a.m. with prayers in Hebrew, followed by more than eight hours of Talmudic study in Yiddish. In the evening were hours of classes in English, taught by a public school teacher. Torah U'Mada : Hebrew words meaning Holy Scriptures and secular knowledge.

The new $2.25-million Yeshiva University high school building was not purchased by the center but by Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. The Wiesenthal Center and Yeshiva are incorporated separately and are financially independent. The encyclopedia that will be used in the center's new Museum of Tolerance was donated by Robert Maxwell, whose company, Macmillan Inc., published the "Encyclopedia of the Holocaust." RABBI MEYER H. MAY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER Los Angeles

Yeshiva University of Los Angeles has changed its name to Yeshiva of Los Angeles, said Meyer H. May, its executive director. The school, in existence since 1977, changed its name at the request of New York-based Yeshiva University, but it will remain affiliated to the theological seminary of the East Coast university, May said. The decision was made last fall but was implemented only in recent weeks.

The Soviet Union has denied a visa to an American linguist, causing seven other U.S. scholars to cancel a trip to a 10-day conference at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The visa application of Joshua Fishman, 59, professor of social sciences at Yeshiva University in New York, was refused without an explanation, and the other scholars then canceled their trip, though they had been granted visas.

A Times article (May 19) described "some concern over church-state separation" with reference to the Museum of Tolerance that is being established on the campus of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles in connection with the Simon Wiesenthal Center. An analysis of the item makes it clear that while there may be doubters, it is an established constitutional doctrine that a governmental body, in this case the state of California, may provide a denominational university with funds to provide a service for a non-denominational purpose.

Yeshiva University has launched a graduate program in Orthodox-oriented study of Talmud and Torah for women, said to be the first university-based program of its kind in the United States. The two-year program for up to 10 women will lead to a certificate, but students have the option of simultaneously earning master's degrees tuition-free at the university's graduate school of Jewish education.

Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, has been sued over its refusal to offer student housing to a lesbian couple. The suit, filed in late June in New York State Supreme Court, is believed to be one of the first of its kind to charge discrimination in student housing based on marital status, according to the independent Jewish Telegraphic Agency news service.

Yeshiva University of Los Angeles has changed its name to Yeshiva of Los Angeles, said Meyer H. May, its executive director. The school, in existence since 1977, changed its name at the request of New York-based Yeshiva University, but it will remain affiliated to the theological seminary of the East Coast university, May said. The decision was made last fall but was implemented only in recent weeks.

Rosalind W. Alcott, a secretary who became a millionaire banker on Wall Street and a prominent philanthropist in Los Angeles, has died. She was 105. Mrs. Alcott died Friday in her Los Angeles home after a brief illness. In her retirement years, she funded scholarships and fellowships at UCLA, Caltech and Yeshiva University of New York. The bulk of her estate is bequeathed to scholarships and student loans at the three institutions. Mrs.

The new $2.25-million Yeshiva University high school building was not purchased by the center but by Yeshiva University of Los Angeles. The Wiesenthal Center and Yeshiva are incorporated separately and are financially independent. The encyclopedia that will be used in the center's new Museum of Tolerance was donated by Robert Maxwell, whose company, Macmillan Inc., published the "Encyclopedia of the Holocaust." RABBI MEYER H. MAY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER Los Angeles

More than 1,000 marchers are expected to participate in the West Coast Salute to Israel parade Sunday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Six-Day War. The event will feature 12 marching bands from Southland high schools and youth groups, the California National Guard Band, and drill teams, drum squads and equestrian groups from Montebello, Riverside and Whittier Narrows.

On a typical morning at the turn of the century, 15-year-old Mayer Susskind would hurry from his Manhattan tenement to the Rabbi Elchanan Theological Seminary. School days began at 8 a.m. with prayers in Hebrew, followed by more than eight hours of Talmudic study in Yiddish. In the evening were hours of classes in English, taught by a public school teacher. Torah U'Mada : Hebrew words meaning Holy Scriptures and secular knowledge.

More than 1,000 marchers are expected to participate in the West Coast Salute to Israel parade Sunday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Six-Day War. The event will feature 12 marching bands from Southland high schools and youth groups, the California National Guard Band, and drill teams, drum squads and equestrian groups from Montebello, Riverside and Whittier Narrows.

Rosalind W. Alcott, a secretary who became a millionaire banker on Wall Street and a prominent philanthropist in Los Angeles, has died. She was 105. Mrs. Alcott died Friday in her Los Angeles home after a brief illness. In her retirement years, she funded scholarships and fellowships at UCLA, Caltech and Yeshiva University of New York. The bulk of her estate is bequeathed to scholarships and student loans at the three institutions. Mrs.

So now our legislators have passed a bill, SB 3337, and the governor has signed it. It will give $5 million of the taxpayers' money for the proposed Museum of Tolerance to be built on the grounds of Yeshiva University. This money will go to the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Holocaust Studies. The center and the university (an Orthodox Jewish seminary) share the same building and board of directors. This money will furnish resources for the study of intolerance and bigotry, we are told.