YU News

Aug 28, 2008 -- In an effort to meet the growing demand for high-quality Torah content, Yeshiva University’s (YU) Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) has revamped its popular Web site, Marcos and Adina Katz YU Torah Online (www.yutorah.org), offering unprecedented access to Torah from YU and its ...

Aug 28, 2008 -- Miraculous advances in recent medical treatments have raised many ethical and Halakhic [Jewish law] dilemmas, particularly concerning the end of life. The Yeshiva University (YU) Student Medical Ethics Society will address these complex and sensitive issues at its third annual ...

Aug 27, 2008 -- Yeshiva University continues the steady expansion of its faculty this academic year with the appointment of 30 new faculty members this fall. Of these, ten are newly created positions, some of which replace adjunct professors. “We’re continuing the momentum forward to make sure we…

Aug 27, 2008 -- Summer may be over, but the excitement of a new experience has just begun for this year's incoming students during Yeshiva University’s undergraduate Orientation Week, August 24-30. “I never looked forward to going back to high school in September, but now I have found a school to…

Aug 27, 2008 -- As people age, their cells become less efficient at getting rid of damaged protein—resulting in a buildup of toxic material that is especially pronounced in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders. Now, for the first time, scientists at Albert…

Aug 26, 2008 -- The Yeshiva University Museum provides the only North American venue for an unusually significant exhibition of Medieval gold and silver jewelry, tableware, and rare coins discovered just a decade ago concealed within the foundation of a 12th-century house in Erfurt, Germany, a ...

Aug 26, 2008 -- Lea Ferreira dos Santos, assistant professor of physics at Stern College for Women, was selected from over 70 applicants to join the US delegation to the 3rd International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) International Conference on Women in Physics in Seoul, Korea, in ...

Aug 26, 2008 -- This summer, 26 students from Yeshiva University and other colleges across the US and Israel made a lasting impact on the next generation of Israeli youth from development towns. The Counterpoint Israel Program, a project of the Center for the Jewish Future (CJF), ran three-week ...

Aug 22, 2008 -- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law student Sarah Gregory got an insider’s view on media law reform and free speech issues in Amman, Jordan, during a summer internship with AmmanNet radio station, Center for Defending the Freedom of Journalists, and Al Isra University Law School ...

Aug 15, 2008 -- This summer, 82 alumni and friends of Yeshiva University explored the Jewish roots of Spain and Italy aboard a cruise ship on YU’s first travel and study program. The world travelers learned about the Jewish history of the region in lectures by Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, Senior…