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Oct 11, 2010 -- Two major international studies looking at data from a quarter of a million people around the globe have found a new set of genes associated with body fat distribution and obesity. Researchers at 280 institutions worldwide, including Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva ...

Visiting Scholar Warren Zev Harvey to Discuss “Rabbi Nissim of Girona on the Constitutional Power of the Sovereign” on Oct. 21 The Yeshiva University Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization (CJL) at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law will present their Annual Ivan Meyer Lecture in Jewish…

Students Spend Sukkot in South America as Part of Counterpoint Brazil At the invitation of the local Jewish community, seven Yeshiva University students traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil over their sukkot vacation as part of the Center for the Jewish Future's first-ever Counterpoint Brazil program ...

Oct 7, 2010 -- At the invitation of the local Jewish community, seven Yeshiva University students traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil over their sukkot vacation as part of the Center for the Jewish Future's first-ever Counterpoint Brazil program. Built on the successes of previous Counterpoint models in…

Yeshiva College Student Leads Team to First-Place Win at International Software Contest A team led by a Yeshiva College student, Yair Saperstein of Lawrence, New York, recently took first place for “Most Useful Software” at the international Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on User ...

YU Hosts Renowned Scholars on Oct. 31 to Discuss “Israel and Iran: From Cyrus the Great to the Islamic Republic” As tension between Israel and Iran escalates and with speculation that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran, a group of renowned scholars will convene at Yeshiva ...

Cynthia Wachtell on The Anti-War Impulse in American Literature from the Civil War to World War I Next April, America will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. A few months later, in July, President Obama has promised to begin troop withdrawals from Afghanistan,…

Oct 5, 2010 -- Next April, America will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. A few months later, in July, President Obama has promised to begin troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, signaling that war's long awaited end. And, of course, just weeks ago, on August 31, the ...

Student Medical Ethics Conference to Explore Jewish Approaches to Mental Health on Oct. 31 Yeshiva University’s Student Medical Ethics Society (MES) will be hosting its fifth annual conference, entitled A Beautiful Mind: Jewish Approaches to Mental Health on Sunday, Oct. 31 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at…