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Students Enliven Holiday Celebrations in Nearly 50 Synagogues Across North America on Torah Tours This Simchat Torah, more than 250 Yeshiva University undergraduates traveled to synagogues across the United States and Canada to enrich holiday celebrations by sharing divrei Torah, youth programming…

Yeshiva University Museum Hosts Conversation on the Justice of Shmita with Israel’s Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked On September 30, the first day of chol hamoed Sukkot, the Yeshiva University Museum presented a public program in conjunction with their ongoing Shmita exhibition, Fields of Dreams…

Alumni Profile: Joey Small ’05YC ’09BR ’13A When he began his academic career at Yeshiva University’s Yeshiva College, Joey Small (’05YC ’09BR ’13A) knew he was in the right place to further the values he’d grown up with in Los Angeles, California—a life dedicated to Jewish living and learning ...

Alumni Profile: Joshua (Shuey) Jacoby ’02YUHS, ’06YC Joshua (Shuey) Jacoby is the Executive Director of Yeshiva University High Schools. A YU and MTA Alumnus, he spent a year as the Jesselson Family Presidential Fellow for the YU High School for Boys (MTA). Shuey then became the Director of ...

Yeshiva College Student Creates Thriving Community of Learning on Creative Torah Thought Blog It started simply as a way to share divrei Torah with friends. As a student in a community day school in Toronto, Ontario, Alex Maged had enjoyed sharing Torah thoughts in the school’s newsletter. He was…

Rabbis Moshe Weinberger and Dovid Miller to Deliver Annual NYC – Jerusalem Kinus Teshuva Lectures on September 21 Rabbi Moshe Weinberger and Rabbi Dovid Miller, senior mashgiach ruchani and Rosh Yeshiva, respectively, at Yeshiva University-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS…

Cantor Bernard Beer Reflects on a Life of Jewish Music at Belz In some ways it’s no surprise that Cantor Bernard Beer, director emeritus of Yeshiva University’s Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music, has spent most of the last 50 years engaged in the teaching of cantorial studies. As the ...

YU Delegation Participates in Emergency Rabbinic Mission to Washington, D.C. On September 9, a delegation of rabbinical students and faculty from Yeshiva University joined an emergency rabbinic mission to Washington, D.C., organized by the Orthodox Union, Rabbinical Council of America and American…

Dear Members of the Yeshiva University Community, I want to share with you remarks I made to the Yeshiva University Board of Trustees yesterday evening. It’s been a tremendously productive summer, culminating a period of two years of intense research, activity and motion moving us forward with ...

Historic Agreement Ensures Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Continued Status As a Top-Tier Medical School and Research Institution Montefiore Health System (Montefiore) and Yeshiva University (Yeshiva) announced today that they have finalized a new landmark agreement for Albert Einstein…