YU News

Jan 24, 2007 -- Yeshiva University undergraduate students, under the guidance of the university’s Center for the Jewish Future, will be participating in a Five Borough Chesed Tour on Sunday, January 28, at five different locations in New York City. In the Bronx, students will be painting kitchens…

Jan 24, 2007 -- Former UN Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke will speak on the conflicts facing diplomats and people of conscience in times of moral crisis when he keynotes an event sponsored by the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Center for International Affairs at Yeshiva University on Wednesday, January 24…

Jan 23, 2007 -- In an effort to sensitize students to the signs of abusive relationships, Yeshiva University’s Counseling Center, the Wilf Campus Office of Student Affairs, and YU’s Center for the Jewish Future hosted “Flowers Aren’t Enough,” a one-woman show starring Naomi Ackerman. More than 80…

Jan 22, 2007 -- Information sessions are scheduled for Wednesday, January 31, in the Levy Commons on the Beren Campus, and Thursday, Feb. 1, in the Belfer Hall Sky Cafe on the Wilf Campus for Yeshiva University seniors interested in the Presidential Fellowship in University and Community Leadership…

Jan 22, 2007 -- Dr. Robert Marion has been named Director of the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. “Dr. Marion brings exceptional expertise in developmental pediatrics, clinical human genetics and medical ...

Jan 18, 2007 -- Students and alumni of Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business are invited to participate in the Spring 2007 Doris & Dr. Ira Kukin Entrepreneurial Lecture Series. Each week during the spring semester, a business personality is invited to speak to Sy Syms students.…

Jan 18, 2007 -- Students from the Yeshiva University High School for Boys will leave on January 17, for Istanbul, Turkey, to spend their winter vacation learning about and strengthening the local Jewish community. The 12 students, all from the New York/New Jersey area, will meet with local rabbis…

Jan 17, 2007 -- Family and friends of Elizabeth Isaacs Gilbert z”l, the first dean of Stern College for Women, held an azkara (memorial service) on the Yeshiva University Campus in Jerusalem to mark the 30th day since her death. The event was attended by more than 50 people. Speakers included…

Jan 16, 2007 -- Yeshiva University’s highly anticipated annual SOY (Student Organization of Yeshiva) Seforim Sale will take place from Sunday, Jan. 28 to Monday, Feb. 19 in Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Ave., on Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus in Manhattan. Last year the acclaimed Judaica book sale…

Jan 15, 2007 -- Dr. Hillel Furstenberg, a graduate of YU High School for Boys and Yeshiva College, was recently announced as one of the winners of Israel’s Wolf Prize. The award was granted in recognition of the leading mathematician’s “profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability ...