YU News

Apr 23, 2007 -- Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute, an expert on US Middle East Policy, and author of “Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands,” will speak about the role Arabs played in saving Jews from the Holocaust at 8PM at…

Apr 20, 2007 -- Henry Kaufman, better known as Dr. Doom to economists, cautioned Yeshiva University graduates about the dangers of runaway credit at an alumni event on Wall Street last month. The Yeshiva University Wall Street Committee and alumnus Daniel Posner ’91Y, a member of the board of Rabbi…

Apr 19, 2007 -- To commemorate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), this year on Sunday, April 15, Yeshiva University's Association of Modern Orthodox Day Schools and Yeshiva High Schools (AMODS) facilitated and moderated a two-hour video conference between Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust ...

Apr 13, 2007 -- This year’s annual Public Interest Law Student Association (PILSA) Auction at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law was a stunning success, raising approximately $260,000 from auctioned items, sponsors, and other gifts. A total of $560,000, which included a grant from the David Berg ...

Apr 11, 2007 -- Millard S. Drexler (left), chairman of the J. Crew Group, was one of the CEOs who were invited to speak at Sy Syms School of Business’s Spring 2007 Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Entrepreneurial Lecture Series. Each week during the spring semester, a business personality addressed Sy Syms…

Mar 29, 2007 -- And the award goes to ChaZack, created by Richard Lewis, Josh Graber, and Mathew Cherney. The winners of the Student Short Film competition were announced today by Yeshiva Universitys Center for the Jewish Future (CJF), which sponsored the festival, in which the winning producers ...

Mar 26, 2007 -- With more than 1,431 years of service behind them, the 78 members of staff and faculty at Yeshiva University’s Service Recognition Luncheon on Wednesday, March 4, had much to celebrate. The event honored employees marking their 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th, and 40th anniversaries at…

Mar 23, 2007 -- Six Yeshiva University (YU) undergraduates, who were given Activist of the Year awards by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at their annual policy conference in Washington DC last week, were recognized by YU’s Office of Student Affairs and YU’s Center for the ...

Mar 22, 2007 -- It may not be the Oscars, but the suspense was just as great for the students vying for awards in the Center for Jewish Life’s short film competition, “Who is Your Jewish Hero?”. Using the new communications lab in Belfer Hall, some 30 undergraduate students created short films on…

Mar 22, 2007 -- In an edge-of-your-seat finale to the 16th Annual Red Sarachek High School Basketball Tournament, the Young Israel of Century City Panthers (YICC) clinched their sixth trophy as one of the star players from Chicago’s Ida Crown Jewish Academy Aces barely missed a three-point shot at…