YU News

Mar 21, 2005 -- Yeshiva high school students from around the United States gathered March 13-15 in Houston, TX, for “If We are for Ourselves, Who are We?”, a student leadership development conference. One in a series sponsored by Eimatai, an initiative of Yeshiva University (YU), it addressed ...

Mar 15, 2005 -- Former Solicitor General Seth Waxman spent two-days immersed in law school life, sharing his invaluable experience by discussing his recent Supreme Court victory, leading a Moot Court master class, teaching Constitutional Law, and delivering a public lecture at the Benjamin N ...

Mar 15, 2005 -- February was an extremely successful month for Cardozo’s moot court, as second-year students Rachel Lubert and Rebecca Hagenson of the Moot Court Honor Society won Vanderbilt University’s prestigious National First Amendment Moot Court Competition and Jeremy Sussman and Andrew Pak…

Mar 14, 2005 -- More than 250 YU undergraduates and 25 students from other schools attended a special shabbaton sponsored by the Israel Club March 11-12. The shabbaton, called "A Teetering Balance: What Kind of World Will Israel Face Tomorrow?", took place on the Beren Campus and featured three ...

Mar 14, 2005 -- Atlanta native Benjamin Lefkove, a senior at Yeshiva College at Yeshiva University in New York City, was listed as co-author of a paper in the December 2004 issue of Journals of Biological Chemistry for research he conducted last summer at Emory University. Mr. Lefkove researched ...

Mar 14, 2005 -- Yeshiva University professor Richard C. Steiner of Kew Gardens Hills achieved a once-in-a-lifetime recognition for his work as a Hebrew linguist this January, when Israel’s Academy of the Hebrew Language invited him to become one of the first two non-Israeli members in some 40 years…

Mar 10, 2005 -- Rabbi Mark Gottlieb has been appointed head of school of the Yeshiva University High School for Boys, announced YU President Richard M. Joel. “Rabbi Gottlieb is an outstanding role model with a deep understanding of the culture and values that are at the core of our mission,” said…

Mar 10, 2005 -- On the evening of March 9, 2005, the echoes of history could be heard inside the Jerome and Geraldine Schottenstein Residence Hall on the Beren Campus. History, however, was not the only lesson to be learned from Dr. Carolyn Goodman, invited by Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, director of the…

Mar 10, 2005 -- Dear Friends, I want to alert you to the progress being made to resolve misunderstandings in Israel regarding the acceptance of YU degrees. I received the attached letter from Israel Minister of Education Limor Livnat, which is self-explanatory. We have been working with her office…

Mar 10, 2005 -- "Humanity has a propensity for evil and for bystanding," Samantha Power said in the opening remarks of her lecture on "Can the United States Respond to Genocide in an Age of Terror?" Ms. Power argued that the US has done little in major cases of genocide in the 20th century and ...