YU News

Sep 30, 2005 -- Rabbi Eliahu Baruch Shulman and Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein are the featured speakers at Yeshiva University-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary’s 21st Annual Hausman/Stern Kinus Teshuva lectures given between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in New York City and ...

Sep 30, 2005 -- Mental health is a growing area of concern for college students, and students studying in yeshiva and seminary programs in Israel are not exempt, said Dr. Victor Schwartz, director of the Counseling Center at Yeshiva University during a special trip to Israel to educate the…

Sep 23, 2005 -- More than 650 guests attended a lavish gala on the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Yeshiva College. Friends, alumni, students, faculty, and roshei yeshiva joined the festivities to celebrate this august milestone and the convivial atmosphere…

Sep 23, 2005 -- In a town hall forum initiated at YU by President Richard M. Joel, he updated students, faculty, administrators, and staff on campus improvements and an array of issues important to university life during meetings at the Beren and Wilf campuses. The gatherings, Sept. 21 and Sept. 22…

Sep 22, 2005 -- U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered the keynote address at the Gala celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, held September 18 at the Waldorf-Astoria. Praising Einstein as an “extraordinary College of Medicine,”…

Sep 18, 2005 -- New York, NY, Sept. 15-- Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) is spearheading massive relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina on behalf of the Houston and New Orleans Jewish Federations in response to a request from Mr. Lee Wunch of the Jewish Federation…

Sep 16, 2005 -- A major conference, “Creating in God’s Image: Ethical Challenges in Stem Cell Research and In-Vitro Fertilization,” recently held in Israel, was co-sponsored by Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future, Bar-Ilan University, Columbia University’s Center for Bio-Ethics, and…

Sep 15, 2005 -- A Yeshiva University contingent traveled to Washington, DC, Sept. 14 to attend the National Dinner Celebrating Jewish Life in America at the National Building Museum. The dinner was the culminating event officially celebrating 350 years of Jewish life in America. President George W…

Sep 14, 2005 -- Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel announced today that David Rudenstine, dean of the university’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has been named vice president for legal education and reappointed as dean. According to President Joel, Dean Rudenstine’s new appointment…

Sep 14, 2005 -- Judaism’s Encounter With American Sports (Indiana University Press: 2005) uses sports as a metaphor to explore the basic religious dilemmas facing the Jewish community today. Covering ground that no previous historical work has addressed, Jeffrey S. Gurock, PhD, Libby M. Klaperman…