YU News

Sep 26, 2008 -- Approximately 30 Yeshiva University students made up the largest student contingent at a protest against China’s ongoing arms sales to the Sudanese government outside the Chinese Mission to the United Nations on Sept. 24. The students were members of YU’s Social Justice Society and…

Sep 26, 2008 -- The Einstein/Montefiore Center for Autism has received a three-year federal grant totaling $600,000 to develop a "Leadership in Autism" training program at its Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC). The grant, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,…

Sep 24, 2008 -- The recent turmoil in the financial markets could not deter the almost 100 students interested in careers on Wall Street who attended the first panel discussion of the “Wall Street Connection Series” on Sept. 22. The series’ first event—moderated by Daniel Posner ’91Y, managing ...

Sep 23, 2008 -- In the wake of the devastating wreckage of Hurricane Ike, the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston reached out to Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership for assistance. The school lost all power and its water supply forcing the administration to send the ...

Sep 23, 2008 -- Nearly 700 people attended Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) Annual Dinner of Tribute, held this evening at The Grand Hyatt in New York City. Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean emeritus of RIETS and special advisor to the President on Yeshiva Affairs ...

Sep 23, 2008 -- Nearly 2,000 Yeshiva University students gathered at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza across from the United Nations on Monday, Sept. 22, to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. The students—who represented Yeshiva ...

Sep 23, 2008 -- When the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston lost its power and water supply in the wake of Hurricane Ike, the school reached out to Yeshiva University’s Institute for University-School Partnership for teaching support. The Beren Academy set up makeshift spaces for its student body…

Sep 19, 2008 -- Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean emeritus of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and special advisor to the President on yeshiva affairs, was honored for his extraordinary achievement in Torah learning and leadership over 35 years as the seminary’s dean at Yeshiva…

Sep 17, 2008 -- Thousands of law school graduates mired in considerable educational debt are shunning jobs in public service law because these jobs pay considerably less than those in the private sector. Indeed, a 2006 report from Equal Justice Works confirms that the double burden of high debt and…

Sep 15, 2008 -- The annual Yeshiva University Student Medical Ethics Society conference, held on September 14, focused on gaining greater understanding of the sanctity of life and the intersection of Jewish and secular law in dealing with palliative, or end-of-life, care. The third annual student…