YU News

Sep 14, 2008 -- Miraculous advances in recent medical treatments have raised many ethical and halakhic [Jewish law] dilemmas, particularly concerning end of life. Yeshiva University (YU) Student Medical Ethics Society (SMES) will address these complex and sensitive issues at its third annual ...

Sep 12, 2008 -- Dr. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, an assistant professor of physics at Yeshiva University’s (YU) Stern College for Women, will represent the United States at the third IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP). The conference, which was established to address the severe…

at Yeshiva University, is featured in the documentary.""] Sep 22, 2008 -- Yehudis Adler, who graduated from Yeshiva University High School for Girls in 1999, set out to identify the causes of the growing numbers of single Modern Orthodox Jews on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in her film Unattached ...

Sep 11, 2008 -- Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Jewish History at Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and Stern College for Women (SCW), has been elected to the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR), the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America ...

Sep 11, 2008 -- Rabbi Yona Reiss and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein will be the featured speakers at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary’s (RIETS) 24th Annual Hausman/Stern Kinus Teshuva lectures. Both lectures, given between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, will take place in New York City and ...

Sep 10, 2008 -- Yeshiva University has just launched a Web site devoted to the scholarly work of Dr. Norman Lamm, chancellor of YU, where visitors can access hundreds of his sermons. The Web site, www.yu.edu/lammheritage, is the first component of the Lamm Heritage, which was created on the…

Sep 8, 2008 -- Yeshiva University (YU) has established the Lamm Heritage in celebration of the 80th birthday of its chancellor, Dr. Norman Lamm. The Heritage will honor Chancellor Lamm’s almost 60 years of exceptional scholarly, spiritual, and leadership contributions to the university and world ...

Sep 4, 2008 -- The cast and writers of the off-Broadway play The Quarrel recently hosted a special performance and Q&A session for the 90 incoming students in the undergraduate honors programs at Yeshiva University. The Quarrel, co-written by Joseph Telushkin ’70Y, ’73R, ’74BR and the acclaimed…

Sep 3, 2008 -- The alumnae of Stern College for Women and Sy Syms School of Business (SCW) are carefully planting a seed that they will nurture as it grows into maturity over the next 10 - 25 years. A group of alumnae—Evelyn Havasi-Stavsky ’82S, Cali Orenbuch ’85S, Shira Yoshor ’89S, and Aviva ...

Aug 29, 2008 -- Yeshiva University’s (YU) Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) will honor Rabbi Zevulun Charlop for his extraordinary achievement in Torah learning and leadership at its Annual Dinner of Tribute on September 17 at The Grand Hyatt in New York City. Rabbi Charlop, who ...