YU News

Mar 3, 2008 -- Moshe Wasserman, a student at Yeshiva University High School for Boys/Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (YUHSB), found the house that his grandmother grew up on in Pinsk. Principal Ya’akov Sklar found headstones bearing his family’s name at the site of the Jewish cemetery in Grozhov ...

Mar 3, 2008 -- Yeshiva University men’s basketball freshman Zachary Gordon was named both first team All-Conference and the Skyline Conference Rookie of the Year after a sensational freshman campaign saw Gordon lead Yeshiva in almost every major statistical category, and finish among the Skyline ...

Feb 28, 2008 -- More than 70 Jewish high school students from Seattle to New Jersey will be participating in the Eimatai Leadership Development Project conference in Miami from March 7-9. The advocacy training seminar is a biannual offering from Eimatai, a program of Yeshiva University’s Center for…

Feb 28, 2008 -- 18 Teams from Across the United States and Canada to Compete for Prestigious Tournament Championship from March 27-31 February 28, 2007 -- New York, NY – The 17th annual Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament is coming to Yeshiva University (YU) from March 27-31, 2008. The event ...

Feb 28, 2008 -- YU’s Center for the Jewish Future to Run Leadership Development Conference in Miami March 7-9 New York, NY, February 28, 2008 –– More than 70 Jewish high school students from Seattle to New Jersey will be participating in the Eimatai Leadership Development Project conference in…

Feb 27, 2008 -- Facing a 22-point deficit with 17 minutes remaining in the game, the Yeshiva University Men’s Basketball team staged one of the most incredible comebacks in the history of Skyline Conference Basketball on Tuesday night, stunning second-seeded SUNY Old Westbury, 88-82 in overtime ...

Feb 27, 2008 -- When David Sugarman signed up for the Center for the Jewish Future’s humanitarian winter mission to Thailand with the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), he thought it would be an exciting opportunity to immerse himself in a foreign culture while helping the poor. But for the ...

Feb 26, 2008 -- A conference on “The Role of the Chatan Teacher” sponsored by Yeshiva University’s (YU) Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) will take place on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at the Wilf Campus in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. The Yom Iyun was organized by Tzelem, a special ...

Feb 26, 2008 -- “This presidential race has been supersized thus far, with incredible levels of participation,” said Ronald Brownstein, author and prominent political analyst, in his opening remarks at a lecture sponsored by the Dr. Marcia Robbins-Wilf Scholar-in-Residence Program at Stern College…

Feb 19, 2008 -- Fifty-six seconds into the final match of Yeshiva University’s Henry Wittenberg Wrestling Invitational Tournament, the gym exploded into cheers. Avi Bromberg of the Ida Crown Jewish Academy (ICJA) pinned David Chadow of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, granting the…