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Nov 12, 2007 -- People with more years of education lose their memory faster than those with less education in the years prior to a diagnosis of dementia, according to a study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, published in the October 23rd issue of the ...

Nov 9, 2007 -- When Dr. Joanne Jacobson – Professor of English at Yeshiva College – teaches her students how to write first-person creative non-fiction, she is sharing information she has gained first hand. Dr. Jacobson, author of the newly released “Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood” (Bottom Dog…

Nov 9, 2007 -- Inside Weisberg Commons 15 sealed crock pots of cholent slowly cooked while student chefs and cholent connoisseurs eagerly awaited the judging of Yeshiva University’s (YU) “First Annual Cholent Cook-off.” Fifteen teams of four students from Yeshiva College, Sy Syms School of Business…

Nov 9, 2007 -- More than three hundred Yeshiva College and Sy Syms School of Business undergraduates, along with dozens of students from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), joined President Richard M. Joel and rabbis, faculty, trustees, and staff for the third annual YUnite Shabbaton…

Nov 9, 2007 -- Considered one of the most distinguished poskim (halakhic decisors) of our time, HaRav Gedalia Dov Schwartz, the Av Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council (CRC) and a graduate of Yeshiva College and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), was honored for his 20 ...

Nov 8, 2007 -- When the only “complaint” conference organizers receive is that a gathering is not long enough, program chairs know they’re doing something right. According to Tzelem director and program organizer Jennie Rosenfeld, the over 100 women who participated in the October 28 event were ...

Nov 6, 2007 -- Dr. James Otteson, professor of economics and philosophy and director of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva University, has been named the first place winner of the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Awards for his seminal book Actual Ethics (Cambridge University Press…

Nov 6, 2007 -- Dr. James Otteson, professor of economics and philosophy and director of the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College, has been named the first place winner of the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Awards for his seminal book Actual Ethics (Cambridge University Press ...

Nov 2, 2007 -- New York, NY, Nov. 2 -- For the first time in many years the General Assembly (GA) of the United Jewish Communities (UJC) will feature a scholar-in-residence – YU’s very own Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter. This year the GA, the largest annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world,…

Nov 2, 2007 -- For the first time in many years the General Assembly (GA) of the United Jewish Communities (UJC) will feature a scholar-in-residence – YU’s very own Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter. This year the GA, the largest annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world, will be in the capital of…