Yeshiva University

28 for the inaugural Shabbat ceremony, followed by an address from Richard Joel, the president of Yeshiva University in New York City. ... and more »

researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of the Yeshiva University in New York focused on an enzyme called p70 S6 Kinase 1, or S6K, ...

Yeshiva University offers a dual curriculum for Jewish students who are committed to Jewish education but want to earn a liberal arts or business degree in ...

He received his JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. According to BlockShopper.com, there have been 4642 home sales in ...

Gay and Orthodox at Yeshiva University blog) Four such stories were shared the night before in a forum sponsored by Yeshiva University's "Tolerance Club" and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. ... YU holds discussion on homosexualityJerusalem Post Out of the ClosetThe Commentator

Dr Jeffrey A Toretsky, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, and Dr Richard Gorlick, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, ... and more »

Though he has spent only one semester in Yeshiva University and has not yet taught a course in Yeshiva College (this semester, he taught “Money and Banking” ...

Do you think Yeshiva University should have an Honor Code? o “YU students are clearly not ready for an Honor Code. They haven't demonstrated that they can ... and more »

Yeshiva University Museum, housed at the Center for Jewish History on West 16th Street, is hosting an entirely free afternoon with stained glass art ...

Twenty 10th-graders from the two Yeshiva University high schools are taking part in the six-week program: ten from the Yeshiva University High School for ...

In an interview with Inside Higher Ed, Jeffrey S. Gurock, a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, said that the growth of religious history may ...

Early in the morning of Wednesday, December 2, over 140 men and women from Yeshiva University woke up and boarded a bus bound for Capitol Hill. They were all participants in a trip organized by the Yeshiva University Political Action Committee (YUPAC), supported by the President's Offic...

This is not the first Yeshiva University newspaper article to be written about homosexuality within the Orthodox Jewish community. Harking back to at least 2003, the Torah approach to "the gay question" has been discussed as it relates to American politics, art, National Coming Out Day...

Coordinator: As our future Jewish leaders, it is vital that they understand and are accepting of other cultures Yeshiva University announced this week that ... and more »

He said Yeshiva University rabbinical students were filling in until a rabbi can be found to replace one that left last year, pursuing a better offer in ...

Kavod hatorah - Hesder & Loyalty to the State Rabbi Waldman is a graduate of Yeshiva University and Brooklyn College. The rav explains that all hesder roshei yeshiva are in agreement, that protests in ... and more »

Grant Aimed At Reducing Number Of Women Who Die Giving Birth In Rwanda press release) Lisa Marie Nathan, MD, MPH, assistant professor of obstetrics & gynecology and women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, ... and more »

Dr. Yerushalmi received a bachelor's degree from Yeshiva University in 1953 and a doctorate from Columbia in 1966, writing his dissertation on Isaac Cardoso ... and more »

The 10 girls, all students at Yeshiva University High School for Girls in Queens, New York, will attend classes at Ulpanat Tzvia-Ma'aleh Adumim. ...

Dr. Steven Fine, a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University (YU) and director of the YU Center for Israel Studies, was recently awarded a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies. Fine's book, "Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish...

About 70 percent of Yeshiva University (YU) students receive some sort of financial aid, declares the YU website. With YU's tuition standing at $15,797 per semester compared to the $2,300 of New York City's community colleges for in-state residents, most YU students and/or their paren...

The man for whom the Yeshiva University (YU) Sy Syms School of Business (SSSB) was named, and by whom it was endowed, died of heart failure on November 17th at the age of 83. Born Seymour Merinsky, Syms grew up in Brooklyn and through years of hard work became the CEO of Syms, a low-priced, high...

International law will need to change in order to confront an emerging warfare of terrorists using civilians as human shields, said Israeli United Nations ambassador Gabriela Shalev at Yeshiva University on Tuesday, November 10.

Stern College for Women's 245 Lexington Avenue building will be renamed "Stanton Hall at a December 16 dedication ceremony, announced Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel at a November 4 Town Hall meeting on the Beren Campus. The new building will be named after YU board chairman...

Texting is a good thing, says Eli Malakan, a senior at Yeshiva University. Malakan said texting allows guys a chance to be articulate and take the time for ...

While taking music classes at Yeshiva University several years later, he worked at a Bronx rental office, where he heard about two buildings for sale, ... and more »

Rabbi Benjamin Blech, prolific author and professor at Yeshiva University. If there is any “apocalypse” around the corner, it will be of our own making. ...

Richard Joel, who headed the college-based group Hillel before becoming president of Yeshiva University and launching its Center for the Jewish Future, ... and more »

Rabbi Eisenman, 50, was ordained at the Modern Orthodox flagship institution, Yeshiva University. But since then he has taken on the outward trappings (a ...

She graduated from Columbia and received a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. She is the daughter of Maxine Z. ...

On September 15, the Yeshiva University Center for History and Philosophy of Science held its inaugural lecture, "The Importance of Darwin for Philosophy," to a packed audience of 120 students, professors, and faculty members.

The Begin-Sadat Center for Stategic Studies (BESA) at Bar Ilan Universiy and Yeshiva University held their first joint Israel Conference at the YU's Midtown Manhattan Schottenstein Cultural Center, to a mostly Jewish crowd of 250 people on September 14. The conference, open to all, fo...

Yeshiva University will be switching its email system from YUMS to Gmail at some point during the upcoming spring semester, confirmed Marc Milstein, Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for YU on Monday.

  United States The New York State Supreme Court in 2001 forced Yeshiva University to allow a same-sex couple to live in its married student housing even though the school's Orthodox Jewish convictions forbid such “marriage.” In Massachusetts, Catholic Charities was ...

  USA Rabbi Norman Lamm, the chancellor and former president of Yeshiva University, caused a stir in recent days when he asserted in an interview with the Jerusalem Post that the liberal branches of Judaism are disappearing. “With a heavy heart we will soon ...

 Israel By RABBI SETH FARBER Rabbi Norman Lamm's recent interview with The Jerusalem Post has been cited in virtually every major Jewish newspaper around the world. As leader of Centrist Orthodoxy and Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, Rabbi Lamm is clearly ...

 NJ During his nearly 50-year tenure as a Talmud teacher at Yeshiva University, he trained hundreds of American Orthodox rabbis and served as a chief architect in shaping the communal policy of the Orthodox movement. His philosophical writings ...

 Israel Schonfeld was reacting to an interview with Chancellor of Yeshiva University Rabbi Norman Lamm in which he predicted the imminent demise of the Conservative and Reform movements. "With a heavy heart we will soon say kaddish on the Reform and ...

 NJ Case in point: In a Jerusalem Post interview this week, Rabbi Norman Lamm, who is Orthodox, has violated both of these precepts of the talmudic life. Rabbi Lamm — the former president of Yeshiva University who holds the ceremonial position of ...

 United States He graduated from the State University at Albany and received his law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. His mother retired as an occupational therapist for the Rochester City School District. ...

 NY Yeshiva University Appoints New Dean at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law;Matthew Diller, Distinguished Fordham Law Professor and Administrator, Named Matthew Diller, a prominent scholar of social welfare law and policy, who from 2003 to 2008 was ...

  USA In March, a similar event drew some 400 job seekers to Yeshiva University. ParnossahWorks, a program of the Federation Employment and Guidance Service, has seen a 300 percent increase in its client load in the past few months, estimates Virginia ...

On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, as the Stern College for Women winter break wound to a close, Yeshiva University (YU) sent a delegation of students to the Limmud NY Conference for the first time in university history. Limmud NY is a yearly gathering of nearly 1,000 Jews of all ages an...

When it comes to depression or other mental illnesses, it may be easy to say they exist, but harder to relate them to one's own community. In the interest of relating depression and mental illness to the Yeshiva University undergraduate community, The Observer sent out a poll to the studen...

A club aimed at eliminating bigotry at Yeshiva University undergraduate colleges was formed at Yeshiva College (YC) this year under the guidance of Avi Kopstick (YC '10) and Ely Winkler (YC '10). Named the Yeshiva University Tolerance Club (YUTC), the organization hopes to decrease th...

Wednesday, November 5, marked the first meeting of the President's Circle (PC) for this academic year. David Himber, the University Dean of Students at Yeshiva University, was in attendance alongside student leaders of various campus organizations. The Stern College for Women (SCW) s...

By A. S. Erickson A news release from the College announced that "Dartmouth ranks third in the nation among doctoral degree granting institutions in undergraduate study abroad participation." The study noted that 60.9% of Dartmouth students studied abroad, behind only Yeshiva University at 75.1% and t...

This is a brief announcement that at my own site on www.donaldsensing.com, Rabbi Daniel Jackson has joined the team as a columnist, blogging from Israel. His first post is, "Hamastan - a view from Israel." Daniel is a former sociology professor who left the academy to study for rabbinic ordin...

By Mark Frauenfelder Mark Frauenfelder: Scientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a fungi that uses radioactivity to make its source of nourishment. The upshot? Spacemen will eat this fungus when they travel to other planets. Yum! The ability of fungi to live off...

By Jen Chung Borough of Manhattan Community College: Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer Bronx Community College: Dr. Richard Carmona, former U.S. Surgeon Yeshiva University: Tim Russert, NBC Washington Bureau Chief Fordham University: Willie Randolph, Mets manager