Washington Heights

Yeshiva U. basketball team forfeits crucial game, citing inadequate warmup time after Shabbat

The stakes of the game were high: The winner would get the top ranking in the Skyline Conference and would get to play all of the postseason games.

|ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
Department of Communications and Public Affairs, Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University's Schottenstein Center, located at 560 West 185th Street. Inside the building is the Florence and Sol Shenk Synagogue and the Schottenstein Theatre.

Transgender woman who lost yeshiva job is excluded from YU-affiliated Orthodox synagogue

The Shenk Shul is housed at Yeshiva University, the Modern Orthodox flagship in New York City that was locked in battle with students over whether they could form an LBGTQ club.

|ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
A protest against Trump's immigration policies outside Trump Tower, Manhattan, August 2017

New Yorkers rally against white supremacist group in Fort Tryon Park

A few days before, on Saturday, members of Identity Evropa, a white supremacist group, unfurled a banner Saturday reading “STOP THE INVASION, END IMMIGRATION” at the park’s Billings Arcade.

|ByABIGAIL WEINBERG