YU News

Feb 18, 2008 -- New York, NY, February 18, 2008 -- Yeshiva University will present a Community Day of Learning on the topic of “Healthy Family Dynamics,” hosted by the Beth Zion Congregation in Côte-St-Luc, Montreal, on Sunday, March 9, 2008, from 9:45 am to 12:45 pm. Dr. Norman Blumenthal,…

Feb 13, 2008 -- Elie Bochner, a senior at Yeshiva University High School for Boys/The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, was designated a semi-finalist in the 2007-2008 Intel Science Talent Search for research he conducted at the State University of New York at Stony Brook during the Simons Summer ...

Feb 12, 2008 -- The phenomenon of post-high school study in Israel has become a mass movement within the Orthodox community. A new Guide to Israel Schools Web site developed by Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) and based on the efforts of the Orthodox Caucus, will help…

Feb 12, 2008 -- As the presidential hopefuls jockeyed for position in advance of the Super Tuesday primaries, a group of scholars and commentators delved into the ethics of presidential power at an all-day conference sponsored by the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University, held at the Center for…

Feb 10, 2008 -- Yeshiva University’s highly anticipated annual SOY (Student Organization of Yeshiva) Seforim Sale will take place from Sunday, February 3 to Sunday, February 24 in Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, on YU’s Wilf Campus in Manhattan. In recent years the acclaimed Judaica book sale…

Feb 8, 2008 -- Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz, longtime benefactors of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, are donating $7 million to start a major new research program within the medical college’s Cancer Center. The gift from the couple was announced February 5 at the “Thinking Pink Day: Supporting…

Feb 8, 2008 -- With rising national attention to the problem of depression on college campuses, Yeshiva University has taken a preventative and proactive stance toward students’ mental health. “We take a multi-faceted approach, which includes increasing public awareness about depression and mental…

Feb 7, 2008 -- The phenomenon of post-high school study in Israel is no longer a phenomenon. It has become a mass movement within the Orthodox community. A new Web site, www.yu.edu/cjf/gis, developed by Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) and based on the efforts of the Orthodox…

Jan 31, 2008 -- What do dragons, unicorns, and mermaids have to do with Torah? Rabbi Natan Slifkin, affectionately known as the “Zoo Rabbi,” addressed the subject in a lecture as part of Stern College for Women’s first Torah Umadda Week, February 4-6. Rabbi Slifkin and two other renowned…

Jan 30, 2008 -- Reverend Frederick Streets, PhD, the Carl and Dorothy Bennet Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Pretoria, South Africa. He will travel to the University of Pretoria and work in its department…