YU News

May 12, 2006 -- Four Yeshiva University students have been awarded Wexner Graduate Fellowships for Fall 2006. The prestigious fellowship provides $20,000 a year for up to three years of graduate training. Yeshiva College graduating senior Efrayim Unterman of Bergenfield, N.J., will pursue rabbinic…

May 10, 2006 -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine's 48th annual commencement will take place at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday, May 31st, at 2:00 p.m. Dr. Irwin Merkatz, professor and chair of obstetrics & gynecology and women’s health at Einstein, will deliver the…

May 9, 2006 -- A unique and far-reaching program aimed at addressing the myriad opportunities and challenges facing Modern Orthodox rabbis in 21st century America is being established at Yeshiva University. Establishment of the Legacy Heritage Rabbinic Enrichment Initiative, which is being funded…

Apr 28, 2006 -- Dr. Robert Aumann, 2005 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics and a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, spoke to students at the Sy Syms School of Business on the Wilf and Beren campuses April 25 about his research in Game Theory, his life as an Orthodox Jew and an economist and…

Apr 27, 2006 -- Dean Harold Nierenberg Memorial Valedictorian Awards: Janna Almo, Jacqueline “Rivka” Kukuy, and Rafi Zlotnick Dr. Joseph Kerzner Award for Outstanding Accounting Seniors: Jonathan Burstein and Mindi Guttmann New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Award for Superior…

Apr 25, 2006 -- The Association of Modern Orthodox Day Schools and Yeshiva High Schools (AMODS), together with the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, are sponsoring a special interactive Yom Yerushalayim program for AMODS’ Global Learning Initiative (GLI) schools. The GLI –– an interactive ...

Apr 24, 2006 -- The more than 225 people at the sold-out program, “The Legacy of The Goldbergs,” came to the Center for Jewish History March 23 to visit their favorite, and oldest, Jewish mother—Molly Goldberg, the central character of the radio and TV show The Goldbergs, which ran from 1929 to…

Apr 22, 2006 -- On Feb. 21 and 22, SSSB and SCW students studying business law with visiting assistant professor Dr. Robert Greenberg, traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend a session of oral argument at the Supreme Court of the United States. The trip, conceived two years ago by Dr. Greenberg ...

Apr 21, 2006 -- Benjamin Galper, a fourth-year student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been elected national chair of the American Medical Association Medical Student Section for 2006-2007. Mr. Galper, who took this year off from his medical studies to earn an…

Apr 18, 2006 -- Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Wurzweiler School of Social Work will combine resources April 30 when they present a lecture series on grief and bereavement called “A Day of Hope: Healing Our Patients Effectively” on the university’s Beren campus in ...