Richard Joel

Jonathan Halpert, out as Yeshiva U. basketball coach, ends long career with victory

Jonathan Halpert, whose contract as the men’s basketball coach at Yeshiva University was not renewed, closed out more than four decades on the Maccabees’ bench with a victory.

Acknowledging failure on sex allegations, Norman Lamm steps down from Y.U.

In a letter announcing he is stepping down as Yeshiva University’s chancellor and rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Norman Lamm acknowledged his failure to respond adequately to allegations of sexual abuse against Y.U. rabbis in the 1980s.