YU News

Feb 1, 2006 -- Adir and Hindi Posy, both Yeshiva University (YU) students, planned a Winter Break trip for New York and New Jersey high school students to aid people in New Orleans still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Posy is a fourth-year rabbinical student in the Wexner Semicha Honors ...

Jan 30, 2006 -- President Richard M. Joel was in Israel during Winter Break continuing his goal to strengthen the relationship between America’s premier Jewish university and Israel. For coverage in the Israeli media see this story from The Jerusalem Post. Highlights of President Joel’s visit to ...

Jan 27, 2006 -- Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and its Manhattan hospital affiliate, Beth Israel Medical Center, have found that a specific mutation in a single gene is a major cause of Parkinson’s disease among Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jews. The ...

Jan 27, 2006 -- In a finding that could help prevent some of the worst complications of diabetes, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have uncovered a novel molecular pathway linking high blood-sugar levels to diabetic retinopathy, a serious condition that can lead to blindness…

Jan 22, 2006 -- The S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program hosted a career fair at the Renaissance Hotel in Jerusalem to demonstrate how a Yeshiva University education can benefit them. Students at the many yeshivot and midrashot throughout Israel –– not just those affiliated with the S. Daniel Abraham…

Jan 22, 2006 -- On the evening of January 14, more than 2,000 students, friends, and family participated in this year's Women's Choir Competition, “Kol Chatan V'kol Kallah,” co-sponsored by Yeshiva University and Kedma, an international student organization funded by United Jewish Appeal’s ...

Jan 20, 2006 -- The AVI CHAI Foundation has renewed funding for The Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies at Stern College for Women for the fifth consecutive year. Begun in 2000, the two-year program, which was initiated and sponsored by an AVI CHAI grant, currently enrolls eighteen women…

Jan 10, 2006 -- Yeshiva University students who will be in Israel during winter break will interact with former Gush Katif residents as part of “BeLevav Shalem,” a special program sponsored by The Center for the Jewish Future (CJF). On January 16, students will visit communities displaced from Gush…

Jan 5, 2006 -- For some students, winter break is a time for relaxing after a tough semester. But for many Yeshiva University students, the time will be spent helping people in the United States, Central America and Israel. Sixteen undergraduate students from YU are traveling with the American ...

Jan 5, 2006 -- The many hours spent in laboratories over the past three summers paid off for Dana Glasner, a Stern College senior, when she was recently named an Outstanding Undergraduate Award finalist for 2006 by the Computing Research Association, a group of academics, companies, laboratories ...