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In honor of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s 72nd Independence Day, which fell on Wednesday, April 29, 2020, the Yeshiva University Museum posted a virtual exploration of the exhibition “From A(gam) to Z(aritsky): Highlights of Israeli Art from Yeshiva University’s Collection,” led by Tablet’s Liel ...

On Thursday, Feb. 13, twenty students from the S. Daniel Abraham (SDA) Israel Program had the unique opportunity to attend the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem. The yearly event attracts thousands of entrepreneurs, founders and investors, service providers, tech buffs and curious ...

Dr. Karen Shawn Associate Professor of Jewish Education at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and founding editor of PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators We certainly have a new perspective from which to commemorate Yom HaShoah this year. Aside…

Dr. Irit Felsen Adjunct professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and a clinical psychologist with a special focus on Holocaust survivors and their families During Passover this year, many Holocaust survivors were completely secluded in their homes, too elderly to risk any exposure to…

Students in the Criminal Defense Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law partnered with the Office of the Appellate Defender to outline legal strategies to advocate for the release of incarcerated people who are vulnerable to harm from COVID-19. Contrary to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ...

Cardozo Student and Boutique Firm Team up to Help Amidst Pandemic Over the past few months (prior to the COVID crisis), Slarskey LLC, a boutique litigation firm in midtown Manhattan, interviewed around ten first-year law students from New York University Law School and the Benjamin N. Cardozo…

Dr. Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, Dr. Vera Bekés and Dr. Tracy Prout at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology are working with colleagues from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and SUNY Potsdam in Potsdam, New York, on several studies exploring the psychological impact of the coronavirus/COVID-…

At the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, we not only teach our students the importance of community involvement and the power of transformation, but we also offer them a way to practice it. Care Café is our community-based program providing psychoeducational pop-up support “cafés” throughout the…

(from the blog of the Center for Jewish History) At the Center for Jewish History, there are tens of thousands of boxes in our partners’ archival and museum collections. Our series, Out of the Box, showcases some of the remarkable treasures and stories tucked away inside. In collaboration with ...

Yeshiva University’s Office of Alumni Affairs introduced a Community Learning Initiative, an array of online learning opportunities for the YU community. Below is a summary of the first series of virtual webinars presented by our talented teachers that ran from March 23-31, 2020. Rabbi Dr.…