YU News

Dec 17, 2003 -- President Richard M. Joel kicked off the 13th annual Orthodox Union Torah Convention in Los Angeles on Thursday, Dec. 11, when he delivered the keynote address, “The State of the Jewish People,” at a dinner held at Congregation Shaarei Tefila. During the five-day conference, "The ...

Dec 16, 2003 -- By law in a majority of states, teachers and administrators must report suspected cases of child abuse involving students. But how does an educator become trained to recognize abuse? And how can a school create an environment in which a child feels safe enough to come forward when…

Dec 16, 2003 -- Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel delivered an address at the Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Herzliya Conference in Herzliya, Israel, on Thursday, Dec. 18. The fourth annual conference, "The Balance of Israel's National Security: Setting National Priorities," was sponsored…

Dec 16, 2003 -- By law in a majority of states, teachers and administrators must report suspected cases of child abuse involving students. But how does an educator become trained to recognize abuse? And how can a school create an environment in which a child feels safe enough to come forward when…

New York, NY, Dec 15, 2003 -- Midtown Campus, the locale of Yeshiva University’s undergraduate programs for women, was last night named by Robert M. Beren, in honor of his distinguished, late uncle, Israel Henry Beren. Robert M. Beren is a longtime supporter of Yeshiva University and Chairman ...

Dec 15, 2003 -- More than 700 Yeshiva University leaders gathered Sunday evening (Dec. 14) at Manhattan’s Waldorf=Astoria for YU’s 79th Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation. The combined events recognized prominent philanthropists, recorded the success of YU’s $400 million capital campaign, and unveiled…

Dec 11, 2003 -- Bruce Adolphe, a composer and principal lecturer of the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center, spoke to a group of students at Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy-Yeshiva University High School for Boys on Wednesday, Dec. 10. The talk, part of a lecture series “How Does a Jewish…

Dec 11, 2003 -- Yeshiva University (YU) senior Shayna Greenwald was named Most Valuable Player of the Betty Shabazz Memorial Women’s Basketball Tournament, held Dec. 7 and 8 at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, NY. The Toronto native and management major at YU’s Sy Syms School of Business averaged…

Dec 10, 2003 -- Two attorneys at Yeshiva University are fighting to free wrongly imprisoned individuals through DNA testing—a calling that fits well with the Jewish ethos. Herman Atkins takes a while to come to the phone. He’s been outside, on this late-summer day, mowing the lawn of his home in ...

Dec 10, 2003 -- Neither a rabbi nor a rabbinic scholar, the new president of Yeshiva University brings to the job 15 years of experience working with students and a broad vision. Richard Joel’s life has been one of refrains, beginning in a typical 1950’s suburban home in Yonkers, New York. Polish…