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Menachem Begin Heritage Center Grant Supports YU Programming Honoring Former Prime Minister’s Legacy Yeshiva University’s Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought received a $100,000 grant from the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem to sponsor a series of programs on…
David Brooks Delivers Keynote Address; Jack Belz, Dr. Susan Horwitz, Harvey Kaylie and William Zabel Honored Acclaimed journalist and New York Times columnist David Brooks delivered the keynote address at Yeshiva University’s 89th Annual Hanukkah Convocation and Dinner on Sunday, December 8 at The…
Yeshiva University and Jewish Publication Society Celebrate Launch of Outside the Bible with Evening of Discussion On December 3, Yeshiva University and the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) celebrated the publication of Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture (JPS, December…
Rabbi J. David Bleich's The Philosophical Quest of Philosophy, Ethics, Law and Halakhah to be Inaugural Volume of RIETS Hashkafah Series Yeshiva University-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical Theological Seminary (RIETS) will be launching its English-language hashkafah [Jewish philosophy] ...
Researchers to Study Diabetes Self-Management and Behavioral Interventions More than 25 million Americans have diabetes, yet as many as 60 percent of type 2 diabetes patients do not follow treatment plans prescribed by their health care provider and about 50 percent fail to meet treatment ...
Half a Century Later, Sephardic Studies Continue to Expand at Yeshiva University A program at Yeshiva University that began with a handful of participants will soon mark its 50th year, and it has never been stronger. The Sephardic Studies Program at YU, co-founded by Dr. Herbert C. Dobrinsky, YU ...
Yeshiva University Takes Part in National Campaign to Raise Scholarship Funds While most of us are familiar with the post-Thanksgiving shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, last year, a new day was created, dedicated to another tradition that makes America great: charitable giving. Dubbed…
At YU Event, MK Naftali Bennett Shares Dream of Israeli Light in the Darkness of Mideast Conflict Sharing his vision for Israel at a November 19 event on Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus, Knesset Member Naftali Bennett asked the crowd of close to 300 to imagine a lighthouse. “A lighthouse has…
Rabbi Benjamin Blech on the Similarities, and Essential Differences, between Thanksgiving and Hanukkah It will never again happen in our lifetimes – unless you are somehow still alive 70,000 years from now. Rabbi Benjamin Blech This year the first night of Hanukkah will coincide with the American…
At Robbins-Wilf Lecture, Bob Woodward Offers Behind-the-Scenes Perspective on Obama-era Washington As public approval ratings for Congress and the Obama administration plummeted to record lows in the wake of the recent government shutdown, veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward shared his ...