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Murray Laulicht ’61YC Will Helm Stern College Board of Overseers This Fall Yeshiva University has announced that Murray Laulicht of Bal Harbour, Florida, and West Orange, New Jersey, has been elected the incoming chair of the Board of Overseers of Stern College for Women. Laulicht graduated from ...

At ChampionsGate Leadership Conference, Jewish Communal Leaders Embrace Challenges and Opportunities From the prevalence of technology and social media in daily life to the difficulties of economic stress and changing social norms, many forces in modern society threaten to tear the traditional ...

This September marks the centennial of the founding of The Marsha Stern Talmudical Society/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB). YUHSB opened its doors on Sunday, September 3, 1916, thanks to efforts of two men: Dr. Solomon Hurwitz, the editor of The Jewish Forum, and Dr. Bernard Revel…

CJF Offers Array of Inspirational Shiurim and Programming for Tisha B'Av and Three Weeks As the Jewish calendar passes through the summer months, the period colloquially known as “The Three Weeks” is being observed through various stages of mourning over the destruction of the two Temples and other…

As Part of Fellowship, Dr. Gary Stein Will Contribute to the Development and Implementation of Health Policies That Affect Older Americans Dr. Gary Stein, professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has been selected as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow for the 2016-17 academic year. The ...

Yael Landman Wermuth Receives Association for Jewish Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship Yael Landman Wermuth, a doctoral candidate at YU’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, has been awarded a prestigious Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2016-17 academic year from…

Yeshiva University High School for Boys Receives $191,000 STEM Grant from Caroline and Joseph Gruss The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB) has received a $191,000 grant from a fund set up by Caroline and Joseph Gruss to upgrade and extend its STEM ...

YU Museum Ceremony Honors Legacy of Former "First Lady of Yeshiva University" On Thursday, July 21, one more spectacular work of art was added to the 7th annual Stern College for Women Senior Art Show at the Yeshiva University Museum. In a touching and inspiring ceremony, Jacob Wisse, director of…

Yeshiva University Students Participate in Advanced Research Program at Bar-Ilan University Twenty three Yeshiva University undergraduate science majors are currently in Israel participating in the sixth annual Summer Science Research Internship program, a joint initiative with Bar-Ilan University…

Dr. Emil Prodan to Serve as Co-PI on Pioneering Biophysics Research A joint Yeshiva University-New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) team recently received a $1 million, three-year science and engineering research grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation for work on “Topological Phonons”—…