The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against Yeshiva University on behalf of two lesbian medical students who allege they were denied campus housing because they are not married. Yeshiva’s medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, issued a statement that said its housing policy is “applied equally to all applicants for student housing without regard to their sexual orientation.”
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