YU News

Feb 10, 2009 -- It was supposed to be a study program in Israel introducing students in the Certificate of Jewish Communal Service Program at Wurzweiler School of Social Work to the country’s social service system. But the ten-day seminar in Israel turned into a teachable experience in the role ...

Feb 6, 2009 -- Winter break brought real-life lessons in the meaning of community for 30 students from Yeshiva University and other area colleges who traveled to Texas as part of the Center for the Jewish Future’s Jewish Life Coast to Coast Service Corps, sponsored by the Charles and Lynn ...

Feb 6, 2009 -- The emerging artistic talents of young Jewish women from around the world were evident at the Yeshiva University campus in Jerusalem, when 28 post-high school students displayed their paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works as part of the second S. Daniel Abraham Israel ...

Feb 5, 2009 -- Armed with pickaxes and shovels, a group of undergraduate students dug ditches, cut trees and leveled the earth in the Nicaraguan community of San Juan del Sur over winter break. The 16 students prepared the land for construction of a bridge, but they also helped clear a path to more…

Feb 5, 2009 -- Yeshiva University (YU) President Richard M. Joel will visit the Deerfield Beach community over the weekend of February 13-15. The trip, one of many national stops on the president’s schedule, will focus on delivering YU’s message to the broader American Jewish community. President…

Feb 4, 2009 -- Yeshiva University’s library has given new life to a rare illuminated Hebrew manuscript from 1765 by posting it online as a Web exhibit. The manuscript, called a memorbuch, from the German town of Auras (now in Poland) is unusual for its elaborate Rococo-style illustrations. The ...

Feb 4, 2009 -- Hundreds of high school students from across North America will gather at the Sheraton Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut to debate the world’s fate at the 19th annual Yeshiva University National Model United Nations (YUNMUN) conference. The event will take place on February 8 – 10 and…

Feb 3, 2009 -- Hundreds of high school students from across North America will gather at the Sheraton Hotel in Stamford, CT, to debate the world’s fate at the 19th annual Yeshiva University National Model United Nations (YUNMUN) conference. The event will take place on Feb. 8 – 10 and is expected…

Feb 3, 2009 -- McGraw-Hill Construction has presented its "Best of the Best" Health Care Project Award for 2008 to the Michael F. Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine/Harold and Muriel Block Research Pavilion at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The competition recognizes ...

Feb 3, 2009 -- “Fear, loathing, terror, scapegoating, victim-blaming,” the shunning of “so-called undesirables:” these were the responses of Christians to their Jewish neighbors during the Black Death, the plague pandemic that killed at least a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century. The…