YU News

Dec 8, 2005 -- Shenk Shul in the Wilf Campus' Schottenstein Center was filled Dec. 1 with more than 300 students who came to experience a rare opportunity -- to listen to and ask questions of one of the foremost Jewish leaders in the world, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks of the United Hebrew ...

Dec 8, 2005 -- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law’s Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies presented the play "w/Hole in the Heart," a powerful family story of Holocaust survival, performed at The Center for Jewish History on December 8. Written by Lea Wernick Fridman, professor at ...

Dec 7, 2005 -- Susan Crawford, a member of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law faculty since 2003, has been nominated to the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a not-for-profit organization responsible for assigning Internet Protocol (IP) ...

Dec 6, 2005 -- The Center for the Jewish Future, in conjunction with Torah Activities Council and the Israel Club, will sponsor two days of programming for Yeshiva University students in Israel during winter break will sponsor two days of programming for Yeshiva University students in Israel during…

Nov 30, 2005 -- Michael Brownlee, MD, the Anita and Jack Saltz Professor of Diabetes Research and director of the JDRF International Center for Diabetic Complications Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, recently received the 2005 Naomi Berrie Award for ...

Nov 30, 2005 -- Early cognitive deficits in infancy -- including poorer attention, slower processing speed, and poorer recognition memory -- are important harbingers of later cognitive deficits, according to a recent study by researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva ...

Nov 30, 2005 -- Government officials, lawyers, journalists, and academics will examine the increased use of secret evidence in legal proceedings during a conference to be held December 5 and 6 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 55 Fifth Avenue (12th Street). The conference, called Secret ...

Nov 30, 2005 -- More than 80 Stern College students were guests of the college on Thanksgiving Day at Mendy’s restaurant in midtown Manhattan. The annual event is sponsored by the Office of Residence Life at the Beren Campus and was created by Rachel Kraut, director of residence life. “The ...

Nov 25, 2005 -- Yeshiva University introduced Kollel Yom Rishon for men and Midreshet Yom Rishon for women this past winter as part of an initiative to strengthen Jewish communal life and learning. By presenting shiurim (lectures) on Sundays to people with busy work weeks, YU gives participants the…

Nov 22, 2005 -- In the episode of “The Apprentice” where Donald Trump’s right-hand man George Ross was away “on a business trip”—unusual because during the nine weeks it takes to tape a season, all participants must be available seven days a week—the TV costar was actually home, observing Yom…