YU News

Sep 4, 2007 -- Rabbi Zevulun Charlop and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein are the featured speakers on Sept. 19 at Yeshiva University-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary’s 23rd Annual Hausman/Stern Kinus Teshuva lectures, given annually between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in New York…

Jul 27, 2007 -- Twelve Yeshiva University (YU) undergraduate science students are taking advantage of an exciting opportunity. They are spending the summer doing research with top scientific scholars at the university’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Bronx. It is one of two ...

Jul 16, 2007 -- A nationally prominent expert and prolific author on management information systems and the international aspects of business, who helped build both the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School…

Jun 26, 2007 -- Eight professors will join a growing roster of distinguished scholars at Yeshiva University (YU) this fall – four as senior members of the undergraduate faculty, and four as members of the graduate faculty. The new appointments are part of an ongoing plan to increase the number of…

Jun 22, 2007 -- A new professor will be taking the reins at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College in the fall. As part of an ambitious hiring initiative to strengthen the quality of the Yeshiva College faculty, James Otteson, PhD, chair of the Department of Philosophy…

Jun 15, 2007 -- Yeshiva University President Richard Joel blasted Great Britain’s University and College Union today for the group’s proposed boycott of Israeli universities and academics and ban on international collaborations with Israelis, calling the move a “hypocritical act” and a “threat to…

Jun 14, 2007 -- A group of close to 30 rabbis from across the country gathered in Chicago from June 11-13 to participate in study and discussion sessions designed to enhance their professional skills. The three-day Yarchei Kallah, part of an ongoing program developed by Yeshiva University’s Center…

Jun 14, 2007 -- Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future will sponsor the Teaneck Beit Midrash Summer Program for Women, the first program of its kind at Yeshiva University designed to provide women of all ages with the knowledge and tools to become both Judaic scholars and role models for…

Jun 13, 2007 -- Moshe Goldfeder, Sharon Weiss, Avi Narrow-Tilonsky, and Eitan Ben-David have been awarded Wexner Foundation Graduate Study Fellowships. The prestigious Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program was established in 1988 by the Wexner Foundation (www.wexnerfoundation.org) to encourage ...

Jun 13, 2007 -- Three YU alumni are among the 20 outstanding young graduates chosen this year for Wexner Foundation Gra­uate Study Fellowships. The fellowship program was established by Jewish philanthropists Leslie and Abigail Wexner to encourage promising candidates to meet the challenges of ...