YU News

Mar 11, 2006 -- More than 700 foreign students studying at yeshivot and universities in Israel gathered at Jerusalem’s International Conference Center on March 11th to demonstrate their solidarity with the state of Israel in a “Battle of the Bands" concert. The concert, sponsored by Yeshiva ...

Mar 10, 2006 -- “Fraud and Federalism: Overlapping Jurisdictions, Overlapping Crimes” is the name of a symposium being offered at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on Monday, March 27, from 9:15 am to 4:30 pm. The symposium will examine how federal, state, and local prosecutors compete to prosecute…

Mar 9, 2006 -- Since 2000, the Republican and Democratic parties have been moving further to the right and left, respectively, despite research showing that most Americans remain moderate in their political perspective, according to former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. She was guest…

Mar 7, 2006 -- Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, noted Holocaust author and lecturer, as well as communal leader and philanthropist, has given a major gift to support doctoral studies in Jewish education at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration (AGS) at Yeshiva University. Her son…

Feb 24, 2006 -- Moshe Almagor knows terrorism. Dr. Almagor, visiting professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, shared some of what he knows with Ferkauf students and faculty Feb. 23 on the Resnick Campus. In a presentation titled, "Coping With Terrorism: Denial Versus Grief," Dr. Almagor…

Feb 23, 2006 -- Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., an internationally recognized researcher and endocrinologist who serves as Director of the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive Diseases & Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been appointed Dean of the Albert Einstein…

Feb 22, 2006 -- In yet another blow to conventional medical wisdom, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that lower salt diets are significantly linked to an increase in risk of dying from cardiovascular disease (CVD): the nation’s leading cause of…

Feb 21, 2006 -- Imagine being able to study Torah using a rare, illuminated Bible written in 1489. Thanks to technology, today anyone can enjoy this privilege by visiting Yeshiva University’s Library Web site. Individuals can see every page of the nearly 2,000 images of the Bible, even enhance the…

Feb 20, 2006 -- The topic, Dr. Gerald Feldman acknowledged, seems almost blasphemous. But the financial aspects of the Holocaust, he said, are integral to the history of the Holocaust. Dr. Feldman, professor of history at the University of California - Berkeley, addresed an audience of Sy Syms ...

Feb 20, 2006 -- Daniel Brody, a 1996 graduate of Yeshiva College, is appearing as a contestant in Season 5 of the popular series “The Apprentice” on NBC-TV, which began Feb. 27. Of the nearly 600,000 people who apply to be contestants on the show, 18 are chosen. “My motto in business is ‘Be fair…