Dear Editors, I was troubled to learn that The Observer’s editor-in-chief Rachel Benaim is also the president of the Yeshiva University College Republicans. As a newspaper that must represent the entire student body, not just a segment of it, I think her position presents a conflict of interest. While I suspect most students will think […]
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Reclaiming The F-Word
“I’m not a feminist.” “So you don’t believe in equal opportunity or equal pay?” I ask. “Oh, but of course I do.” This trope stings my ear whenever I hear it, and I hear it all too often. In my experience at Yeshiva University, feminism is treated as a pathology and feminists are labeled as […]