YU News

Sep 6, 2007 -- Tehilla Stepansky of Passaic is one of nine graduates of Yeshiva University’s (YU) Stern College for Women (SCW) who will not have to contend with the financial burdens of medical school education, thanks to the generosity of a woman she will never meet. Anne Scheiber, who managed to…

Sep 6, 2007 -- Jackie Saxe of San Diego, a senior at Yeshiva University’s (YU) Stern College for Women (SCW), was one of four students nationwide appointed to the executive committee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Each year AIPAC appoints four exceptional student leaders…

Sep 6, 2007 -- Elisheva Levine of Woodmere is one of nine graduates of Yeshiva University’s (YU) Stern College for Women (SCW) who will not have to contend with the financial burdens of medical school education, thanks to the generosity of a woman she will never meet. Anne Scheiber, who managed to…

Sep 6, 2007 -- Helen Nissim of Los Angeles is one of nine graduates of Yeshiva University’s (YU) Stern College for Women (SCW) who will not have to contend with the financial burdens of medical school education, thanks to the generosity of a woman she will never meet. Anne Scheiber, who managed to…

Sep 5, 2007 -- Yeshiva University welcomed 700 new undergraduate students at Orientation this week. Along with returning students and new students starting in the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program, they make up an undergraduate student body of well over 3,000, the largest in YU’s history ...

Sep 5, 2007 -- As health care costs soar and the number of uninsured Americans rises inexorably, leading international public health academics and clinicians will convene next month at Yeshiva University to address diversity and disparity in health care and related topics focused on understanding…

Sep 5, 2007 -- Solomon Moshe, MD, professor of neurology, of pediatrics, and of neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was recently awarded the Jan Evangelista Purkyne Honorary Medal from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in recognition of his outstanding scientific ...

Sep 4, 2007 -- Spencer Foreman, MD, president of Montefiore Medical Center and professor of medicine and of epidemiology and population health at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree this morning by YU President Richard M. Joel…

Sep 4, 2007 -- Rabbi Zevulun Charlop and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein are the featured speakers on Sept. 19 at Yeshiva University-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary’s 23rd Annual Hausman/Stern Kinus Teshuva lectures, given annually between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in New York…

Aug 29, 2007 -- When the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox won the Israel Baseball League this summer, Yeshiva College pre-med student Aryeh Rosenbaum was part of the winning team. The left-handed pitcher, who was drafted this spring for the league’s inaugural season, said the level of play this season was “…