YU News

Oct 22, 2005 -- Yeshiva University embarks this year on an exciting initiative to bring a series of relevant films to the YU community in the private confines of the Beren Campus' Geraldine Schottenstein Cultural Center, 239 E. 34th Street. Films shown throughout the coming year focus on the theme…

Oct 21, 2005 -- Members of the 100-year-old Beth Israel Congregation of New Orleans, the city’s only Orthodox synagogue, had a Torah for Yom Kippur this year, thanks in part to Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF). After the synagogue was flooded and its seven Torah scrolls ...

Oct 14, 2005 -- During the week of October 17 through October 23 medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine will take part in a weeklong program, “Breaking Down Barriers to Health Literacy,” designed to promote health literacy in the Bronx community and to provide first- and second…

Oct 13, 2005 -- Yeshiva University is working with the American Jewish World Service to send 15 students to Honduras in January as part of the university’s first Alternative Break, a new humanitarian mission. The YU delegation will travel to Honduras from January 15-22 to help a community build a…

Oct 7, 2005 -- The New York Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law will host "On Double-Super-Secret Background: Managing Confidential Sources in the Post-Miller/Cooper Era" on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 6:30 pm at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law…

Oct 7, 2005 -- The Hispanic Center of Excellence at YU's Albert Einstein College of Medicine has received $562,902 in federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services. The funding, which will be used to prepare the next generation of medical students to address the healthcare needs…

Oct 6, 2005 -- Rabbi Eliahu Baruch Shulman of Brooklyn, bochen (examiner) and rosh yeshiva (professor of Talmud) at Yeshiva University’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), has been named a maggid shiur in the Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies (MYP) at ...

Oct 6, 2005 -- Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg of Spring Valley, NY has been appointed a rosh yeshiva (professor of Talmud) in the Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies (MYP) at Yeshiva University (YU). Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, MYP dean and Max and Marion Grill Dean at YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan…

Oct 6, 2005 -- Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter will deliver a lecture entitled “The Dialectic of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: Holiday or Days of Awe” on Monday, October 10 at 8:15 pm at the Young Israel of New Rochelle. Beginning at 8:30 pm. Yeshiva University (YU) will webcast the event live via a ...

Sep 30, 2005 -- Think about what makes you happy, not about what makes you the most money, The Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul E. Steiger told students at Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business on Tuesday Sept. 27. Mr. Steiger managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and a vice…