YU News

Oct 15, 2004 -- Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel today announced the appointment of Rabbi Kenneth Brander of Boca Raton, FL, as the inaugural dean of the Center for the Jewish Future, effective July 1, 2005. The Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) will serve as the ...

Oct 12, 2004 -- Joseph Wilf of Hillside, NJ, chief executive officer of Garden Homes Management, a Union, NJ-based real estate development, building, and management firm, has been elected vice chairman of the board of trustees of Yeshiva University (YU). Mr. Wilf, a Holocaust survivor, became ...

Oct 12, 2004 -- Warren Eisenberg, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Bed Bath & Beyond, was elected to the board of trustees of Yeshiva University (YU). Mr. Eisenberg became involved in the university’s leadership in 2000, when he joined the board of YU’s Sy Syms School of Business. He…

Oct 5, 2004 -- Paul D. Brusiloff was elected a member of Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Board of Directors at a meeting held in early September. Mr. Brusiloff, a partner with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, is a 1991 summa cum laude graduate of the Law School, where he served…

Oct 4, 2004 -- An analysis of how Jewish law and ethics affect scientific advances and research will highlight an Oct. 24 discussion sponsored by Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. The lecture, “When Man Creates Man: Assisted Reproduction, Cloning, and Stem Cell Research through the…

Oct 4, 2004 -- About 750 seniors from Jewish high schools across the tri-state area flocked to Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus in Washington Heights on September 21 for an exciting afternoon of Torah learning that included shiurim (lectures), tefillah (prayer), a multi-media presentation, and ...

Sep 27, 2004 -- Students and alumni of Yeshiva University and its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), will enrich the holiday celebrations of Shemini Atseret and Simhat Torah in more than 65 Jewish communities. As part of the annual Blanche Schreiber Torah Tours, groups of four to ...

Sep 21, 2004 -- Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton, Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a leader in DNA research, will present the 2004 Ira Kukin Chemistry Lecture, "DNA Charge Transport: Chemistry and Biology," at Yeshiva ...

Sep 10, 2004 -- Matthew J. Maryles, a member of the tax advisory firm of Wolf Maryles & Associates, has been elected to the board of trustees of Yeshiva University (YU). Mr. Maryles, a Brooklyn resident, first became involved in the university’s leadership in 1990, when he became a founding…

Aug 30, 2004 -- Yeshiva University is bringing its program of advanced Torah studies to Long Island’s Five Towns and Rockaway communities under an off-campus initiative of postgraduate training for modern Orthodox educators. The program, HAFTR Community Kollel, is the latest in a series of outreach…