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Apr 30, 2009 -- Over 1,000 students in festive blue and white dress crowded Lamport Auditorium on the Wilf Campus for Yeshiva University’s annual Yom Hazikaron (Remembrance Day) and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day) ceremony. This year’s event, which took place Tuesday night, April 28 ...

Apr 30, 2009 -- There is a light at the end of the tunnel; however, that light is further away than most people realize. That was the general message delivered by Dr. Nouriel Roubini, the renowned economist who, in 2006, accurately predicted the current recession. Speaking to a capacity crowd at ...

Apr 29, 2009 -- Wurzweiler School of Social Work was the only New York school selected for a $550,000 grant from the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute in collaboration with the US Children’s Bureau. The grant, extended over five years, will support scholarships and curricular innovations…

Apr 29, 2009 -- Matthew Diller, a prominent scholar of social welfare law and policy who was associate dean for academic affairs at Fordham Law School from 2003 to 2008, has been named dean of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. Diller is the Cooper Family Professor of Law and…

Apr 29, 2009 -- Dr. David Shatz, professor of philosophy at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, will deliver the keynote address at YU’s 78th Commencement Ceremony at Madison Square Garden’s WaMu Theater in New York City on May 14 at 11 am. Shatz, editor of The Torah u-Madda Journal and…

Apr 28, 2009 -- A student-organized yom iyun [day of learning] focusing on the theme of “Exile and Redemption in Tanach and Jewish History” drew about 500 attendees to the Wilf Campus on April 26. The day of Bible study was an extension of the hugely popular Abraham Arbesfeld Kollel Yom Rishon and…

Apr 17, 2009 -- The group of 10 Yeshiva University High School for Boys/Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (YUHSB) students knew things would be very different as soon as they arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport. “We were pretty confused when one of the Israelis brought out a guitar…

Apr 15, 2009 -- A handful of Yeshiva University’s most talented student exhibited their artwork at the YU Museum on March 22 when the University held a celebration of student and faculty creativity at the venue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. It was the first time student work was on ...

Apr 14, 2009 -- The group of ten students from Yeshiva University High School for Boys/Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (YUHSB) knew, as soon as they arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport, that things would be very different. “We were pretty confused when one of the Israelis brought…

Apr 13, 2009 -- The Immigration Justice Clinic at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University has made public key documents demonstrating that the Bush administration’s immigration home raid strategy was a law enforcement failure. The papers – including both new data and previously ...