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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Rabbi Sacks lived a life surrounded by books, those he read and those he wrote. In this spirit, Dr. Erica Brown, Vice Provost for Values and Leadership and inaugural Director of the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership, announces the ...

“We are building the world’s first stock market to invest in parts of a company but not the whole.” Kenneth Book ’22SB (Finance) “Identifying an issue in such a broad industry like finance and investing, and being able to come up with a solution, is an opportunity that we didn’t want to pass up…

The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University is presenting a multipart series of discussions titled “What is the Holocaust Today?” It will begin on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, at 4 p.m. ET with a presentation by Dr. Katarzyna Person on her new book, Warsaw…

BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS Dean Paul Russo and cybersecurity program director Sivan Tehila shared their expertise and insights on the resilience to disinformation and cybersecurity talent development, respectively, at Cybertech NYC, the largest conference on cybersecurity in North…

Dr. Joshua Zimmerman Dr. Joshua Zimmerman, Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and East European Jewish History and a professor of history, has published an article in Englesberg Ideas that very much resonates with today’s news about possible conflict in Ukraine between…

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Emil Fish, a Holocaust survivor and founder of the Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University (Dr. Shay Pilnik, director), will be sharing his testimony and his thoughts on Holocaust education at A Time to Remember, a cross-border event presented live…

Former President Richard Joel with Dorothy Schachne in 2014 Yeshiva University deeply mourns the passing of Dorothy Schachne, a longtime, cherished supporter. A YU benefactor who was awarded an honorary degree from the University in 2014, Dorothy held a deep commitment to communal service, Jewish…

Mara H. Benjamin | Indiana University Press | 2018 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern In The Oblig­at­ed Self: Mater­nal Sub­jec­tiv­i­ty and Jew­ish Thought , Mara H. Benjamin offers a thought-provoking (and often humorous) meditation on motherhood as a prism for one's relationship with God ...

Click on the image for the flipbook or to download a PDF From the President Dear Friends: Stories are essential to how we contextualize our lives. A recent conversation I had with one of our excellent rabbinic teachers in our high schools reminded me of this point. He shared with me that the advice…