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Nov 14, 2008 -- Rabbi Yona Reiss, the Max and Marion Grill Dean of Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), will be visiting the Brookline and Newton communities as a scholar in residence for Shabbat Chayei Sarah, November 21 to the 22. Rabbi Reiss will visit the…

Nov 13, 2008 -- Yeshiva University (YU) will bestow an honorary doctorate on Roslyn Goldstein at YU’s 84th Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation on Sunday, Dec. 14 at The Waldorf Astoria. YU will also confer honorary degrees on four other leaders: David Feuerstein; Elliot Gibber; Rabbi Haskel ...

Nov 13, 2008 -- This fall, Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB)/ The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy inaugurated its Honors College, a forum for enriched spiritual and intellectual stimulation geared to engage gifted students. Twenty-four students were recruited from the top echelons of…

Nov 7, 2008 -- Yeshiva University Museum is pleased to announce a panel discussion "Figuration, Abstraction and the Spiritual" featuring the exhibition "David Stern: The American Years 1995-2008" on November 13, 2008 at 6:30 pm. The curator of the traveling exhibition, Karen Wilkin, will introduce…

Nov 6, 2008 -- Three students at Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls (YUHSG) performed extremely well on their Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Tests (PSAT/NMSQT), receiving letters of commendation in recognition of their academic promise. The commended ...

Oct 28, 2008 -- Samuel Blass, chemistry major at Yeshiva University’s (YU) Yeshiva College (YC), is one of four scholars chosen as a 2008 winner of the first annual Henry Kressel Research Scholarship, established to perpetuate YU’s student research community. The scholarship seeks to embody the ...

Oct 28, 2008 -- Ariella Zoltan, a political science major at Yeshiva University’s (YU) Stern College for Women (SCW), is one of four scholars chosen as a 2008 winner of the first annual Henry Kressel Research Scholarship, established to perpetuate YU’s student research community. The scholarship ...

Oct 28, 2008 -- Malka Bromberg, physics major at Yeshiva University’s (YU) Stern College for Women (SCW), is one of four scholars chosen as a 2008 winner of the first annual Henry Kressel Research Scholarship. The scholarship was established to perpetuate YU’s student research community and seeks…

Oct 28, 2008 -- Ari Lamm, a Jewish studies major at Yeshiva University’s (YU), is one of four scholars chosen as a 2008 winner of the first annual Henry Kressel Research Scholarship, established to perpetuate YU’s student research community. The scholarship seeks to embody the commitment to ...

Oct 23, 2008 -- A group of 13 Yeshiva University (YU) graduates from the class of 2008 enjoyed their studies so much that they will stay on for a year after graduation, serving as Presidential Fellows. The prestigious group includes New Jersey residents Abigail Atlas, Highland Park; Danit…