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Jun 27, 2006 -- Yeshiva University (YU) President Richard M. Joel has called the decision by the Israel Ministry of Education not to recognize academic degrees to YU graduates who have immigrated to Israel “inconceivable” and “unacceptable.” In testimony yesterday before a joint session of the ...

Jun 20, 2006 -- Students at Yeshiva College and Sy Syms School of Business on Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus in Washington Heights are the beneficiaries of a new Sefer Torah presented by the Lipman family of New York and Memphis, TN. The inscribing of the Sefer Torah for YU was commissioned by ...

Jun 19, 2006 -- Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have observed for the first time that gene expression can occur in the form of discrete “pulses” of gene activity. The researchers used pioneering microscopy techniques, developed by Dr. Robert Singer and ...

Jun 19, 2006 -- The Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS) at Stern College for Women will expand this fall to offer an intensive two-year senior fellowship to two program graduates. It will be the first program of its kind in the United States. The two inaugural fellows are Elana ...

Jun 6, 2006 -- Once a month, the Center for the Jewish Future facilitates a shidduch between Stern College for Women and women in the community who are interested in Torah learning. The program is called Midreshet Midtown, as an offshoot of the successful Kollel and Midreshet Yom Rishon Programs on…

Jun 5, 2006 -- Hundreds of YU students, faculty, alumni and friends enthusiastically marched up Fifth Avenue in the annual Salute to Israel Parade. President Richard M. Joel led the YU contingent that accompanied a parade float and live music was provided by Blue Fringe. Salute to Israel Parade ...

Jun 1, 2006 -- “A few months ago, if someone had asked me to name five rabbis in the United States, I could not have done it,” says Rabbi Rafael Feuerstein, chairman of Tzohar, the largest organization of religious Zionist rabbis in Israel. Founded to repair the divide between secular and observant…

May 30, 2006 -- An undergraduate education at Yeshiva University is characterized by Torah Umadda, Jewish studies combined with the study of liberal arts and sciences. It is a characteristic unique to YU, and one in which all students take pride. The YU diploma is symbolic of having successfully ...

May 26, 2006 -- Irwin Cotler, member of the Canadian Parliament and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, urged some 750 Yeshiva University undergraduates to build an equitable and humane society in his commencement address at the university’s 75th Annual Commencement Exercises…