Yeshiva U president to take part in Trump’s inauguration

Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva College in New York, will ship the benediction on the inauguration of Donald Trump subsequent week, officers introduced Tuesday.

Berman “will name for the nation to rise to this historic second and unite round America’s foundational values as a supply for realizing our shared desires of a affluent, compassionate nation led by religion and belief in God,” in accordance with a college information launch.

Berman has led Yeshiva College, a contemporary Orthodox Jewish establishment, since 2017. As president, he has overseen each successes and controversies. The establishment not too long ago reported its highest variety of undergraduate functions in its historical past and has elevated the variety of switch college students, which it attributed partly to contentious pro-Palestinian protests elsewhere.

However Yeshiva directors additionally clashed with an LGBTQ scholar group, which it refused to acknowledge, prompting a lawsuit. In fall 2022, the college suspended all scholar teams in an effort to keep away from recognizing the LGBTQ membership after Yeshiva was dealt a authorized setback.

Within the college information launch, Berman mentioned he was deeply honored to ship the benediction.

“As I put together my remarks, I’m impressed by the phrases of the prophet Jeremiah, who hundreds of years in the past walked by means of the roads of Jerusalem, the everlasting capital of Israel, and proclaimed ‘Blessed is the one who trusts in God.’ I pray that we’re all united across the core values of life and liberty, of service and sacrifice, and particularly of religion and morality, which George Washington referred to as the ‘indispensable helps’ of American prosperity,” Berman mentioned.