YU Rosh Yeshiva Will Also Headline 41st Annual Nitzotzot Conference With Discourse on Ethics and Halacha Rabbi Moshe David Tendler, Rosh Yeshiva at YU-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical Theological Seminary (RIETS) and the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and…
Yeshiva University High School for Boys' Ori Putterman Wins 2014 National Merit Scholarship Ori Putterman Ori Putterman, a senior at Yeshiva University’s High School for Boys/ Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (YUHSB), has been named a winner of the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. He is one…
Students Commemorate Israel with Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut Programs Hundreds of students filled the Wilf Campus’ Lamport Auditorium May 5 for Yeshiva University’s Yom Hazikaron (Israel Memorial Day) ceremony honoring Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror. The student-led event ...
Business School Honors Students and Faculty at Annual Awards Dinner Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business celebrated its 27th anniversary and the graduating class of 2014 with a gala awards dinner on April 30 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The evening honored students and faculty who…
Israeli Ambassador Ido Aharoni, Survivor Pola Jasphy and Students Reflect at Yom HaShoah Ceremony In a darkened Lamport Auditorium at Yeshiva University’s annual Yom HaShoah ceremony, Stern College for Women student Michal Kupchik began an evening of Holocaust remembrance and reflection with a plea…
Former Maccabee Selected to Join Flourishing Yeshiva Athletics Program Yeshiva University has announced Elliot Steinmetz as its head men’s basketball coach. Steinmetz, a 2002 graduate of YU’s Sy Syms School of Business who lettered on YU’s basketball team for three seasons from 1999-02, will be ...
Men's Tennis Wins Skyline Conference Championship, Becomes First Yeshiva Team to Earn Berth into NCAA Championship April 27, 2014 is now a date marked in history for Yeshiva University's athletics department. Yesterday the men's tennis team became the first program in the history of the College to…
Rakeffet's Bernard Revel Biography Republished; Yeshiva University Presents May 4 Book Launch and Lecture Yeshiva University Press, in conjunction with OU Press, announces the republication of two landmark books by Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, professor of rabbinic literature at YU’s Caroline…
YU High School Students Document Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies Through Oral History Project YU High School for Girls students documented the testimony of Holocaust survivor Joe Rosenfeld (seated with his wife). For many seniors at Yeshiva University High Schools (YUHS), one of the most memorable…
Dr. John Ruskay to Keynote May 22 Commencement; Joshua Gortler, Dorothy Schachne and Dr. Morton Lowengrub to be Honored Dr. John S. Ruskay, executive vice president and CEO of the UJA-Federation of New York, will deliver the keynote address and receive an honorary doctorate at Yeshiva University’s…