YU News

Mar 8, 2009 -- Over 450 young women from seminaries all over Israel gathered for an Erev Achdut, an evening of unity, at Yeshurun Synagogue in Jerusalem’s City Center on Feb. 23, to remember the eight students who were killed one year ago at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav in Jerusalem. The event was ...

Mar 5, 2009 -- “What’s a Catholic priest from France doing in the killing fields of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia?” That was the opening question posed by Father Patrick Desbois—a priest who has dedicated his life to identifying and documenting the sites of mass executions in Eastern Europe—to an ...

Mar 5, 2009 -- David J. Srolovitz, Ph.D., dean of Yeshiva College, has been awarded the distinguished title of MRS Fellow by the Materials Research Society. The title of MRS Fellow honors MRS members who are notable for their outstanding research accomplishments and their contributions to the ...

Mar 4, 2009 -- Three key factors play a role in the internalization of religious values of students studying Torah in Israel post-high school. According to the findings of an ongoing study by Dr. David Pelcovitz, the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Professor of Psychology and Jewish Education at…

Mar 4, 2009 -- “What’s a Catholic priest from France doing in the killing fields of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia?” That was the opening question posed by Father Patrick Desbois—a priest who has dedicated his life to identifying and documenting the sites of mass executions in Eastern Europe—to an ...

Mar 3, 2009 -- Yeshiva University’s undergraduate student councils partnered with Shalhevet at New York University, an Orthodox student campus group, to raise more than $4,000 for Bet Elazraki’s Children Home, an orphanage in Netanya, Israel, at a concert on February 26. With close to 475 in ...

Mar 3, 2009 -- Forty-four Yeshiva University undergraduates, representing 18 congressional districts, participated in a lobby mission to Washington, D.C., on February 24, sponsored by the Yeshiva University Public Action Committee (YUPAC), Yeshiva's Center for Jewish Future (CJF) and the ...

Mar 2, 2009 -- Two new teaching fellowships offered by the Institute for University-School Partnership at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration aim to increase the number of qualified Jewish educators, particularly outside the New York tri-state area,…

Mar 2, 2009 -- The Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University presents its third annual Scholar-in-Residence Lectures, featuring Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah (Princeton University). The first lecture, “Citizens of the World? Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of Identity,” will be delivered Wednesday ...

Feb 26, 2009 -- Yeshiva University received an Eddy Award from "Pensions & Investments," an international newspaper that focuses on money management, at the newspaper’s 17th annual Defined Contribution Conference in Miami Beach, Fla., on February 9. The Eddy Awards recognize the highest caliber…