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Rabbi Benjamin Blech: Does the Word "Love" Still Mean Anything? Are you in love? Millions of people will take advantage of Valentine’s Day to affirm their strong feeling of affection with the three words “I love you.” That statement has been called the most beautiful phrase in the English language…
Covenant Foundation Awards YU Museum Grant for Educational Partnership with Lincoln Center Institute On the basis of an innovative arts-based educational program, Yeshiva University Museum is the recipient of a prestigious Signature Grant from The Covenant Foundation, which develops and supports ...
Bequest by Herbert S. Denenberg Trust Establishes Two Yeshiva College Chairs On February 5, Yeshiva University marked the investiture of two new chairs in Judaic studies at Yeshiva College, endowed through a generous bequest from the Herbert S. Denenberg Trust. Dr. Yaakov Elman, professor of Judaic…
YU Hosts 200 Jewish Athletes for Annual Wrestling Tournament; Shabbaton to Feature Former WBA Champ Yuri Foreman Yeshiva University will host the 18th annual Henry Wittenberg Wrestling Invitational Friday, February 15 through Monday, February 18, 2013 at the Max Stern Athletic Center on YU’s uptown…
YU Women's Basketball Team Comes Together On and Off the Court It’s nine o’clock on a Wednesday night and the Yeshiva University women’s basketball team is practicing basketball drills in a midtown high school gym. Poised on the sideline, guard Stephanie Greenberg holds a basketball close to her ...
Certificate Program in Experiential Jewish Education Now Accepting Applications for Cohort III Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) is now accepting applications and nominations for Cohort III of its Certificate Program in Experiential Jewish Education. The Certificate Program ...
Ferkauf's Sarah Kate Bearman Bridges the Chasm Between Psychological Research and Practice As a camp counselor, Sarah Kate Bearman was always intrigued by the “problem” kids—the high-energy, high-maintenance kids who had trouble following the rules and tried everyone else’s patience. Unlike many of…
Professor Mordecai Paldiel Delivers Keynote Address at UN Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, adjunct instructor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University and former head of the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem, delivered a moving keynote address to the United…
More than 1,000 Day School Leaders to Convene for 2013 North American Jewish Day School Conference Jewish lay and professional day school leaders from across the globe will gather in Washington, D.C. on February 3 – 5, for the fourth annual North American Jewish Day School Conference. The theme for…
YU Students Engage in Volunteer and Service Learning Missions Around the World This winter break, 90 Yeshiva University students took part in an array of hands-on community building projects in Israel, the United States, Nicaragua and Mexico. Counterpoint Israel participants conducted English ...