YU News

Nov 25, 2008 -- With Jewish communities emerging throughout the US and across the globe, the need for qualified rabbis and educators has grown. Oftentimes, the search for a suitable rabbi can be a somewhat daunting task. Serving as the community arm of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary ...

Nov 21, 2008 -- David Rudenstine, author of the acclaimed book "The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case" and dean of Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, was honored at the 2008 Alumni Association Dinner held at New York City’s Gotham Hall Nov. 10 ...

Nov 21, 2008 -- Over 500 students studying at Israeli yeshivot and seminaries as part of YU’s S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program are expected to attend a shiur with British Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks on Nov. 28. Rabbi Ari Solomont, director of the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program, reached out to…

Nov 19, 2008 -- Yeshiva University sent a delegation of 30 rabbinical students from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) who are studying at YU’s Gruss Institute in Jerusalem – and their wives – to the UJC’s 2008 General Assembly (GA) to expose the young leaders to the “larger Jewish…

Nov 14, 2008 -- Based in the “melting pot” capital of the world, New York City, the Yeshiva University Men’s Soccer team boasts a tremendously diverse group of athletes. The Maccabees’ roster—comprised of athletes from Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, France, Israel, England, Chile, Belgium and the…

Nov 14, 2008 -- Rabbi Yona Reiss, the Max and Marion Grill Dean of Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), will be visiting the Brookline and Newton communities as a scholar in residence for Shabbat Chayei Sarah, November 21 to the 22. Rabbi Reiss will visit the…

Nov 13, 2008 -- Yeshiva University (YU) will bestow an honorary doctorate on Roslyn Goldstein at YU’s 84th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation on Sunday, Dec. 14 at The Waldorf Astoria. YU will also confer honorary degrees on four other leaders: David Feuerstein; Elliot Gibber; Rabbi Haskel ...

Nov 13, 2008 -- This fall, Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB)/ The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy inaugurated its Honors College, a forum for enriched spiritual and intellectual stimulation geared to engage gifted students. Twenty-four students were recruited from the top echelons of…

Nov 11, 2008 -- Based in the “melting pot” capital of the world, New York City, the Yeshiva University men’s soccer team boasts a tremendously diverse group of athletes. The Maccabees’ roster—comprising athletes from Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, France, Israel, England, Chile, Belgium and the United…

Nov 10, 2008 -- There is no such thing as “the end of Wall Street,” Lance Hirt ’87YC, a partner at Lindsay Goldberg and trustee of Yeshiva University, told students at the second Wall Street Connection Series event on Nov. 3. This came as some reassurance to the more than 150 students who attended…