YU News

New York, NY, Mar 8, 2004 -- The 13th annual Red Sarachek High School Basketball Tournament, named for Yeshiva University’s legendary men’s basketball coach, will take place Thursday, March 18 to Sunday, March 22 at YU’s Max Stern Athletic Center on its uptown Wilf Campus, 185th Street and…

Mar 4, 2004 -- This year's annual Seforim Sale, a student-run project of the Student Organization at Yeshiva (SOY), was held from Feb. 9 to Feb. 29 in Belfer Hall at Yeshiva University's Wilf Campus. Originally intended as a convenient way for students to purchase the necessary seforim, or…

Mar 4, 2004 -- This summer, YU undergraduates will get the chance to walk in the footsteps of Charles Dickens and James Joyce, dig for artifacts in ancient sites, and study life under the sea. “Yeshiva undergraduates can study a wide array of courses on three continents that have never been offered…

Mar 2, 2004 -- Shalom Sokolow, a junior at Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy – Yeshiva University High School for Boys, was given a plaque and $1500 during a ceremony March 1 for his first place finish in the second round of the 2004 American Legion Oratorical Contest. Mr. Robert Corrigan, American…

Mar 1, 2004 -- Construction of a security barrier is Israel’s best short-term option against Palestinian terror attacks and demographic dangers that threaten the country’s Jewish character. That analysis came during a panel discussion sponsored by Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women at the…

Mar 1, 2004 -- YU STUDENTS ATTEND NATIONAL HILLEL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE “Tzedek, Tzedek, Tirdof - Justice, Justice, You Shall Pursue!” states the Torah (Deuteronomy 16:20). YU President, Richard M. Joel, former president of Hillel International, renewed old ties and created a new…

Feb 26, 2004 -- Arab youth in Israel can benefit greatly from improved social services, according to Dr. Yossi Korazim-Korosy, of Israel’s Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, who addressed faculty at Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work Feb. 24. Dr. Korazim-Korosy, head of the ...

Feb 24, 2004 -- Some 31 books chronicling early American Jewish life now form an exhibit at Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library, on the Wilf Campus, that commemorates 350 years of Jewish immigration. “New World – Old Books” showcases volumes from the library’s Rare Book Room that ...

Feb 23, 2004 -- More than 100 Yeshiva University students made a 48-hour trip to the UN's International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, to support Israel's sovereign right to self-defense. YU students, accompanied by University administration members Hillel Davis, Peter Ferrara, Beth ...

Feb 16, 2004 -- In the final scene of the 1926 Broadway production, The Day of Atonement, Al Jolson’s character scrubs his Broadway debut to chant the Yom Kippur Kol Nidre service at his father’s synagogue. In The Jazz Singer, the 1927 movie remake, a new final scene has Jolson back on stage, his…