YU News

Sep 11, 2008 -- Rabbi Yona Reiss and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein will be the featured speakers at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary’s (RIETS) 24th Annual Hausman/Stern Kinus Teshuva lectures. Both lectures, given between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, will take place in New York City and ...

Sep 8, 2008 -- Yeshiva University (YU) has established the Lamm Heritage in celebration of the 80th birthday of its chancellor, Dr. Norman Lamm. The Heritage will honor Chancellor Lamm’s almost 60 years of exceptional scholarly, spiritual, and leadership contributions to the university and world ...

Aug 29, 2008 -- Yeshiva University’s (YU) Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) will honor Rabbi Zevulun Charlop for his extraordinary achievement in Torah learning and leadership at its Annual Dinner of Tribute on September 17 at The Grand Hyatt in New York City. Rabbi Charlop, who ...

Aug 28, 2008 -- In an effort to meet the growing demand for high-quality Torah content, Yeshiva University’s (YU) Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) has revamped its popular Web site, Marcos and Adina Katz YU Torah Online (www.yutorah.org), offering unprecedented access to Torah from YU and its ...

Aug 28, 2008 -- Miraculous advances in recent medical treatments have raised many ethical and Halakhic [Jewish law] dilemmas, particularly concerning the end of life. The Yeshiva University (YU) Student Medical Ethics Society will address these complex and sensitive issues at its third annual ...

Jul 25, 2008 -- Eleven Yeshiva University (YU) undergraduate science students are spending the summer doing research with top scientific scholars at the university’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. “The nine students in the Roth Scholars program and the two students in the ...

Jul 21, 2008 -- New York, NY – When deciding on her career path, Angela Schwartz opted for one that would enable her to combine two of her favorite things – children and animals. A recent graduate of Yeshiva University’s (YU) Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Schwartz has always incorporated…

Jul 15, 2008 -- This fall, the brightest sophomores at Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls (YUHSG) will participate in a new Science Institute, an in-house curriculum that will advance students’ scientific knowledge, science literacy, and research methodology skills. Beyond…

Jul 10, 2008 -- While many science students choose to pursue a more conventional career path, recent Stern College for Women (SCW) graduate Leah Kanner is opting to fulfill her true calling – physics. As a math major and member of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program, Kanner is somewhat of a…

Jul 8, 2008 -- For nearly four decades Rabbi Franklin “Fischel” Engelberg has been an educator in both Judaic and general studies. Today, as principal of Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz in Brooklyn, NY, Engelberg oversees students in pre-K through high school. He previously served as principal of the…