The New York Daily News website reports that an editor of Yeshiva University's student newspaper resigned today (December 9, 2011), as a result of an article about premarital sex that appeared this week in The Beacon -- the student newspaper of the school in New York City.
The story that fueled the controversy -- and published on December 5 -- was an account of a Yeshiva female student having premarital sex with a male lover, and the regret she felt afterward.
Mayer Fertig -- university spokesman -- said most of the students were "deeply offended" by the essay.
Simi Lampert -- co-editor of The Beacon who resigned that position as a result of her decision to publish the essay -- admitted the article talks about premarital sex, and is assur (a sin according to Jewish law). She added that she did not regret her decision to publish the essay at the Orthodox Jewish school, because The Beacon was founded "to be a platform for every student, not just the majority."
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