YU News

Nov 7, 2008 -- New York state’s governor, the Honorable David A. Paterson, will be the keynote speaker at Yeshiva University’s (YU) 84th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation on Sunday, December 14 at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York City. YU President Richard M. Joel will confer an honorary doctor…

Nov 7, 2008 -- Yeshiva University Museum is pleased to announce a panel discussion "Figuration, Abstraction and the Spiritual" featuring the exhibition "David Stern: The American Years 1995-2008" on November 13, 2008 at 6:30 pm. The curator of the traveling exhibition, Karen Wilkin, will introduce…

Nov 6, 2008 -- Three students at Yeshiva University High School for Girls (YUHSG) performed outstandingly on their Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests (PSAT/NMSQT), receiving letters of commendation in recognition of their academic promise. The commended students are seniors…

Nov 6, 2008 -- Three students at Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls (YUHSG) performed extremely well on their Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests (PSAT/NMSQT), receiving letters of commendation in recognition of their academic promise. The commended ...

Nov 5, 2008 -- This fall Yeshiva University’s Lady Macs volleyball team began its inaugural season as the sixth women’s varsity team at YU. The team made the quarterfinals of the Hudson Valley Women’s Athletic Conference (HVWAC), after a 17-match schedule against the six other colleges in the ...

Nov 5, 2008 -- Before he was killed in the terror shooting at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav in Jerusalem in March this year, 16-year-old Avraham David Moriah was known for his extraordinary commitment to Torah study and worship. He prayed with such devotion that another Torah scholar would travel to the ...

Nov 4, 2008 -- Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Fordham University, which both have campuses in the Bronx, have agreed to a collaborative relationship that will strengthen the science and medical offerings at both institutions. A signing ceremony took place on Oct. 30 in…

Nov 3, 2008 -- Yeshiva University celebrated its longstanding ties to Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun at a Shabbaton on Nov. 7 at the synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The event came a month before the University’s 84th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation, which will honor communal…

Nov 3, 2008 -- The Yeshiva University Museum is the first venue of a national traveling exhibition of paintings by David Stern, a German native who immigrated to New York City in 1995. The 57 paintings and drawings in “Abstraction, Figuration, and the Spiritual David Stern: The American Years (1995…

Oct 30, 2008 -- A two-day symposium, ‘Treasured Possession: Jews and Christians in a Medieval City,’ co-sponsored by the Yeshiva University Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will look at various aspects of medieval culture Nov 5-6. The special symposium is in conjunction with ‘Erfurt ...