YU News

Yeshiva College Students Research Published in Peer Reviewed Scientific Journal Mar 18, 2010 -- A group of Yeshiva College students had their physics research published in the peer reviewed online scientific journal Entropy. The students, Mordecai Segall YC ’12, Mordechai Kornbluth YC ’12, and…

Mar 18, 2010 -- Accepting the inaugural Lamm Prize on March 16, Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks spoke about the dichotomy between Torah and chachma [secular wisdom] and the need for both in a Jew’s intellectual being. “How can we apply Torah to the world if we can’t understand it?” he questioned…

Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is Recipient of Inaugural Norman Lamm Prize Mar 17, 2010 -- Accepting the inaugural Lamm Prize, Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks spoke about the dichotomy between Torah and chachma [secular wisdom] and the need for both in a Jew’s intellectual being. “How can we apply…

RIETS Honors Next Generation of Rabbis at Chag HaSemikhah Convocation Mar 16, 2010 -- At the conclusion of the Chag HaSemikhah ceremony on March 7, new musmakhim [ordained rabbis] and esteemed roshei yeshiva, teachers, mentors, family and friends poured out onto Amsterdam Avenue to dance in ...

Considering Career Paths and Aliyah, SDA Students Flock to Fair Mar 16, 2010 -- The auditorium of the Yeshiva University campus in Israel was turned over to help students chart their professional paths at the annual S. Daniel Abraham Career Fair, co-sponsored with the aliyah organization Nefesh B…

HAFTR Hawks take home championship in Yeshiva University’s 19th Annual Red Sarachek Tournament Mar 15, 2010 -- Sarachek Tournament

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. to Speak at Cardozo Commencement Mar 15, 2010 -- Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, Jr., will be the featured speaker at the 32nd commencement of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, June 1, 2010. At…

Mar 15, 2010 -- A strange aroma filled the Washington Heights air as hundreds of students, faculty and curious visitors filed into Yeshiva University’s Weissberg Commons on March 11 for the 2010 Cholent Cook-Off. Sixteen teams made up of 64 students from the men’s undergraduate schools, Yeshiva ...

Students Spice Up Culinary Competition A strange aroma filled the Washington Heights air as hundreds of students, faculty and curious visitors filed into Yeshiva University’s Weissberg Commons on March 11 for the 2010 Cholent Cook-Off. Sixteen teams made up of 64 students from the men’s ...

Wurzweiler’s Joan Beder Studies the Effect on Social Workers Treating Returning Veterans When Dr. Joan Beder saw the film, “Alive Day” – James Galdolfini’s HBO documentary about soldiers returning from battle in Iraq – she began to think about the dearth of national studies on the effects of social…