YU News

May 7, 2007 -- Hundreds of Yeshiva University students, alumni, faculty, administrators, and friends marched up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on a glorious day to celebrate Israel's 59th anniversary of statehood in the annual Salute to Israel Parade. President Richard M. Joel and his wife, Dr. Esther…

May 2, 2007 -- Vern L. Schramm, PhD, and Ruth Merns Professor of Biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s most prestigious honorary society for scientists. His election was announced today at the ...

May 2, 2007 -- U. S. Representative Charles Rangel, an 18-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Harlem, was honored for his decades of support for seniors, underprivileged youth, and other under-represented communities when Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work ...

May 1, 2007 -- Yeshiva University Museum’s award-winning exhibit, “A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry,” recently garnered another accolade. The exhibit, which drew praise from The New York Times and Vogue, recently won the 2007 Richard Martin Award for Excellence in the ...

May 1, 2007 -- Yeshiva University High Schools will hold its Annual Dinner of Tribute by honoring Miriam and Alan Goldberg and two outstanding faculty members, Ms. Deborah Geller and Dr. Geoff Cahn, on Tuesday evening, May 15, 2007. The event, at the American Museum of Natural History, located on…

Apr 27, 2007 -- More than six decades after the Holocaust, and after thousands of books and countless hours of research and testimony, one is tempted to believe that this dreadful period in Jewish history doesn't have any more secrets to reveal. But even a broad, thoroughly researched period such…

Apr 26, 2007 -- Have you ever wondered why the foam on a pint of Guinness lingers while the foam on a pint of lager rapidly dissolves? It turns out the answer is so complicated that for more than half a century, no one has made significant headway in understanding it--until now. David Srolovitz,…

Apr 24, 2007 -- In a moving ceremony at Houston’s United Orthodox Synagogue, the investiture of Rabbi Assaf Bednarsh as the first occupant of the Ruth Buchbinder Mitzner Chair in Talmud and Jewish Law at the Yeshiva University in Israel campus took place on April 14. The chair was established ...

Apr 23, 2007 -- Marc Milstein has been appointed vice president, information technology and chief information officer at Yeshiva University. Mr. Milstein comes to YU with almost 30 years of experience managing information technology in the health care and academic communities. He was most recently…

Apr 23, 2007 -- Joyce Tessel worried about the relevance of her class project. The 18-year-old senior at Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls (YUHSG) “didn’t understand why talking to Holocaust survivors” and others who were connected to World War II, could be important to her ...