YU News

Nov 10, 2005 -- Yeshiva University is highlighting its strong science program with a special Science Week beginning Monday, Nov. 14. The first event is a public reading by Yeshiva College Writer–in-Residence Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York…

Nov 1, 2005 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver the principal convocation address and receive an honorary degree at Yeshiva University’s 81st Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation on Sunday, Dec. 11, at The Waldorf=Astoria. YU President Richard M. Joel will confer honorary degrees on ...

Oct 6, 2005 -- Rabbi Eliahu Baruch Shulman of Brooklyn, bochen (examiner) and rosh yeshiva (professor of Talmud) at Yeshiva University’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), has been named a maggid shiur in the Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies (MYP) at ...

Oct 6, 2005 -- Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg of Spring Valley, NY has been appointed a rosh yeshiva (professor of Talmud) in the Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies (MYP) at Yeshiva University (YU). Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, MYP dean and Max and Marion Grill Dean at YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan…

Oct 6, 2005 -- Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter will deliver a lecture entitled “The Dialectic of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: Holiday or Days of Awe” on Monday, October 10 at 8:15 pm at the Young Israel of New Rochelle. Beginning at 8:30 pm. Yeshiva University (YU) will webcast the event live via a ...

Sep 16, 2005 -- A major conference, “Creating in God’s Image: Ethical Challenges in Stem Cell Research and In-Vitro Fertilization,” recently held in Israel, was co-sponsored by Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future, Bar-Ilan University, Columbia University’s Center for Bio-Ethics, and…

Sep 14, 2005 -- Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel announced today that David Rudenstine, dean of the university’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has been named vice president for legal education and reappointed as dean. According to President Joel, Dean Rudenstine’s new appointment…

Sep 14, 2005 -- Judaism’s Encounter With American Sports (Indiana University Press: 2005) uses sports as a metaphor to explore the basic religious dilemmas facing the Jewish community today. Covering ground that no previous historical work has addressed, Jeffrey S. Gurock, PhD, Libby M. Klaperman…

Sep 7, 2005 -- A rare 15th -century Hebrew Bible, held by Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library, will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from September 20, 2005-January 3, 2006 as part of its “Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437” exhibition. Valued at $3 ...

Aug 22, 2005 -- The annual US News & World Report survey of America’s top universities has once again ranked Yeshiva University (YU) in the top tier of national research universities. It is named with Columbia and NYU as the top universities in the metropolitan area. "We are pleased that US…