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Jan 21, 2009 -- The grand ballroom of Jerusalem’s Ramada Hotel was awash in sopranos and altos on the evening of Jan. 17, as thousands of young women gathered for the 11th Annual Kol Chatan v’Kol Kallah Inter-Seminary Choir Competition, co-sponsored by Yeshiva University and the social action group…

Jan 20, 2009 -- Richard Weisberg, the Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, received the Legion of Honor, the highest decoration given by the French Republic for outstanding service to France, at a ceremony last week. French…

Jan 19, 2009 -- As President Barack Obama enters the first days of his administration's leadership, Yeshiva University looks back at its ties to the White House over the decades. To see a photo gallery of YU and US Presidents click here. From correspondence between President Calvin Coolidge and Dr…

Jan 16, 2009 -- Two new teaching fellowships offered by the Institute for University-School Partnership at 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, by enabling recent ...

Jan 8, 2009 -- This winter break, 30 students from Yeshiva University and other colleges across the US will visit Texas as participants in the Jewish Life Coast to Coast Service Corps run by YU’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF). The goal of the program, sponsored by the Charles and Lynn ...

Jan 8, 2009 -- Sixteen Yeshiva University undergraduate students will experience a different kind of learning when they travel to the Central American country of Nicaragua on this year’s humanitarian winter mission sponsored by American Jewish World Service (AJWS) Volunteer Corps and coordinated by…

Jan 7, 2009 -- For Liorah Sabbah, who grew up with minimal Jewish education on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the opportunity to learn about Judaism at an in-depth level was an offer she could not refuse. While initially hesitant about leaving her home country to enroll in the Basic Jewish…

Jan 7, 2009 -- The following is a message that President Richard M. Joel circulated to the alumni community in Israel: Dear Alumni, I want to communicate with you on behalf of all the students, faculty and alumni of YU. Although we are far from you, we are not distant. We know you are again…

Jan 7, 2009 -- This winter break, 30 students from Yeshiva University (YU) and other colleges across the US will visit Texas as participants in YU’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) Jewish Life Coast to Coast Service Corps: Texas 2009 program. The goal of the program, sponsored by the Charles and…

Jan 7, 2009 -- Since their respective launches in 2004 and 2005, Yeshiva University’s (YU) Mechinah Program and Basic Jewish Studies Program (BJS) have reached out to hundreds of young men and women around the world with limited Jewish backgrounds. Through specialized courses and extra-curricular…