YU News

May 29, 2007 -- Fourteen Yeshiva University (YU) students spent Shavuot in various cities in the United Kingdom, where they ran Torah educational programs and met members of the local Jewish community. The trip was part of the Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future’s (CJF) Counterpoint ...

May 21, 2007 -- Jacob Birnbaum, who received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University at its annual commencement exercises May 17, is the founder and director of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, the Center for Russian and East European Jewry, and several other Soviet Jewry groups. Mr ...

May 18, 2007 -- Distinguished honorees, distinguished guests, and the Class of 2007: Before all else—congratulations! You finally made it. […] Before you can begin to move on to the next phase of your lives, you must undergo the last grueling hurdle in your career here at Yeshiva University: the ...

May 18, 2007 -- Four students from Stern College for Women presented their research at the Spring National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago. Sarah Guigui, Nilly Brodt, Rachel Yamnik, and Nina Bursky-Tammam presented their research during the Undergraduate Poster Session, along ...

May 18, 2007 -- When students from nine day schools and yeshivas in the United States joined thousands of others in Jerusalem on May 16 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its reunification, they may not have been there in person, but they were certainly “seen and heard,” says Nathan Kruman ...

May 17, 2007 -- Journalist Tim Russert, moderator of the influential Sunday-morning talk show “Meet the Press,” emphasized the generational transmission of values in building American society when he addressed the graduates at Yeshiva University’s 76th Annual Commencement Exercises at Radio City ...

May 10, 2007 -- More than 300 attendees came from all over the world when Wurzweiler School of Social Work celebrated its 50th anniversary with a three-day conference, "Celebrating a Tradition of Caring: Social Work Practice Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," at the New York Sheraton Hotel in…

May 10, 2007 -- A group of 85 top international entrepreneurs who attended an industry conference in April heard from sales and marketing gurus, management consultants, the founder of a major Internet company, work-balance coaches—and one rabbi. For the first time ever, a member of the clergy—Rabbi…

May 10, 2007 -- Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work celebrated its 50th anniversary at a gala dinner for over 300 people at the New York Sheraton Hotel on Sunday, May 6. The event celebrated the vision of Wurzweiler’s founders, the accomplishments of its graduates, faculty ...

May 10, 2007 -- Yeshiva University recently paid tribute to the people who turned some of the University’s hi-tech dreams into reality. The Digital Communications Laboratory in Belfer Hall on the Wilf Campus was dedicated by President Richard M. Joel in honor of Doar Litigation Consulting and its…