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Aug 22, 2005 -- This year's annual Yeshiva College Book Project theme is "Science Evolving: Ways of Knowing." The featured book is Stephen Jay Gould's collection of essays, Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History. Click here to learn more about the YC Book Project The Yeshiva College…

Aug 20, 2005 -- Ten Yeshiva University undergraduates spent the summer doing research with top scientific scholars at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as part of two programs that allow undergraduates with interest in science to participate in ongoing research projects. The eight students in…

Aug 17, 2005 -- A parent’s must-read guide to raising a child in today’s society, Balanced Parenting: A Father and a Son – A Rabbi and a Psychologist – Examine Love and Limits in Raising Children (Shaar Press: 2005) gives clear, practical advice on how to achieve the Talmud’s imperative to raise ...

Aug 1, 2005 -- The Orthodox Caucus, a leadership group whose mission is to address challenges facing the Orthodox community and the Jewish community at large, will relocate to Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus and be hosted by the Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) of Yeshiva University (YU). The ...

Aug 1, 2005 -- Four Montrealers are participating in an innovative program at Yeshiva University (YU) this summer. Edith Baumberg and Hana Cohen, teachers at Solomon Schechter Academy of Montreal; Rabbi Yamin Benarroch, dean of students, student advisor, and teacher at Hebrew Academy in Cote St.…

Aug 1, 2005 -- The Orthodox Caucus, a leadership group whose mission is to address challenges facing the Orthodox community and the Jewish community at large, will relocate to Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus and be hosted by the Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) of Yeshiva University (YU). The ...

Jul 29, 2005 -- Yeshiva College Class Marshals were welcomed by President Richard M. Joel and members of the Yeshiva College Board on July 20 for a sports night and BBQ on the Wilf Campus. The marshals enjoyed the gym, track, fitness room and pool at the Max Stern Athletic Center, followed by a ...

Jul 28, 2005 -- Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, university professor of Jewish history and Jewish thought at Yeshiva University (YU) and senior scholar at YU’s Center for the Jewish Future, will lead the reading and the study of the Kinot at Cong. Keter Torah on Sunday, Aug. 14, the fast of Tisha B’Av.…

Jul 26, 2005 -- Summer at YU has brought 28 incoming high school seniors to Yeshiva University for four weeks this summer, where they are taking classes, meeting other students from all over the world, and getting an insider’s look at New York City. “It has far exceeded anybody’s expectations,”…

Jun 10, 2005 -- New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer encouraged the class of 2005 to follow their hearts and not be afraid to question the system, in his commencement speech for Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. At the school's 27th commencement, held on June 7 in ...