YU News

May 3, 2004 -- Dr. Ruth Roskies Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from Yeshiva University at its 73rd Annual Commencement on May 20. The exercises will take place at The…

May 3, 2004 -- Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from Yeshiva University at its 73rd Annual Commencement on May 20. The exercises will take place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, where YU President ...

May 3, 2004 -- The institutionalization of religion in Israel has created a bureaucracy of closed doors, says Rabbi Seth Farber, an advocate for improved relations between religious and secular Jews in that country. He spoke May 2 on “Democracy and Religion: Fighting for Israel’s Soul,” the third…

May 1, 2004 -- The Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will be the featured speaker at the 26th commencement of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University at 3:00pm on Tuesday, June 1, 2004. At the ceremony, which will be held…

Apr 26, 2004 -- The Lower East Side, one of the most famous neighborhoods of New York City, home to thousands of early immigrants, many of whom were Eastern European Jews who determined the shape of the city during much of the 20th Century. As part of YU's ongoing commemoration of the 350th ...

Apr 26, 2004 -- Mixing commemoration and celebration, Yeshiva University students, faculty, and alumni yesterday marked Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) at Wilf Campus with a candlelight vigil to Israel’s fallen soldiers and songs and dancing honoring 56 years of Jewish statehood. Some 600…

Apr 22, 2004 -- How democracy and theocracy coexist will take center stage at a May 2 lecture sponsored by Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. The discussion, “Democracy and Religion: Fighting for Israel’s Soul,” will take place at 8 pm at the Teaneck, NJ, home of Leora and Jonathan Kukin…

Apr 22, 2004 -- Research papers on how adult children cope with divorce, together with aspects of adolescent behavior and obesity and myths about marriage, highlighted Yeshiva University’s first annual conference on behavioral sciences hosted by the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology on April 22…

Apr 21, 2004 -- Organized and run by students, the Annual Awards Dinner of the Sy Syms School of Business honoring the 2004 graduates, was held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. Ari Spodek, a junior, led the festivities as MC and Sy Syms, founder of the school and Bernard Madoff, chairman of the board…

Apr 21, 2004 -- A tailor from Czechoslovakia arrives in America before World War I, leaving his wife and five children behind until he finds work. A bookbinder artist from Poland settles in New York City’s Lower East Side in 1947, just after World War II, and teaches himself English. And a…