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Sep 1, 2003 -- Sitting at a table in Belfer Hall’s cafeteria on the Wilf Campus, Harriet Levitt reminisces about her 23-year teaching career at the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/ Yeshiva University High School for Boys. When one of her former English students and debate team members nominated her…

Sep 1, 2003 -- The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein and S. Daniel Abraham Honors Programs at Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women this summer had a global feel. In three innovative courses, undergraduate students left the Manhattan campuses for the piazzas and cobbled streets of Florence, the ...

Sep 1, 2003 -- The office of student aid is often the front line for students, parents, and management of a university. Robert Friedman, YU’s new director of student aid for Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, Sy Syms School of Business, and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, came on board in…

Aug 26, 2003 -- A record 675 Yeshiva University students from across North America are departing for a year’s study in Israel, undeterred by recent tensions. From August 26 to September 9 students are leaving from metro area airports to participate in YU’s S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program, the ...

Yeshiva University (YU) has been consistently making strides in student quality, academic excellence, and diversity of programs and research over the past decade. YU is now ranked along with Columbia and NYU as the top universities in the metropolitan area. YU is ranked as #40 in the most ...

Aug 19, 2003 -- Freshman orientation is fast approaching, yet that intense time of adjustment does not apply to fresh-faced teens alone. It also extends to new college presidents. In New York City, among the new presidents joining exhausted parents in counting down the days until school begins are…

New York, NY, Aug 18, 2003 -- Elisheva Douglas hopes her research on lupus will help scientists better understand the chronic inflammatory disease that affects thousands of Americans each year. She and nine other Yeshiva University (YU) undergraduates spent nine weeks this summer investigating ...

Aug 22, 2003 -- Richard Joel is well aware that on the eve of his being chosen president of Yeshiva University last December, a number of students and rabbis were so opposed to his election that they recited Tehillim (Psalms), a prayerful response to times of crisis and danger. For some, the fact…

Buffalo, NY, Jun 26, 2003 -- In Buffalo, New York, police protection has improved dramatically with the introduction of single-officer patrols and work shifts designed to match the true pattern of daily calls to police. The changes, which started with Buffalo's Central District on July 16, mean…

New York, NY, May 1, 2003 -- When Dr. Susan E. Mason, associate professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Rachel Miller, research social worker at Hillside Hospital, began writing a book, they did something unheard of: they asked their patients with schizophrenia at Hillside Hospital (part…