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On Jan. 21, 2020, Yeshiva University Museum hosted an evening dedicated to exploring “Rembrandt’s Legacy.” The conversation, attended by over 200, was introduced by Dr. Jacob Wisse, director of the museum and associate professor of art history and was moderated by Straus Center director Rabbi Dr ...

On Jan. 29, 150 students from 18 high schools, including the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA) and the Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central), descended on the Heights Lounge on the Wilf Campus for “Hackathon in the Heights,” a…

Adam Neuman Adam Neuman ’13 YC gives his new job a 10, a “Big Ten,” as the new Chief of Staff, Strategy and Operations at the Big Ten Athletic Conference (B1G). As the youngest occupant of the position in its history, he works with Kevin Warren, the B1G commissioner, to create policy and…

Campus News Professor Jessica Roth Talks on MSNBC about Impeachment Trial Professor Jessica Roth spoke with Brian Williams on MSNBC about the Democratic team’s lawyers at the impeachment, saying, “I think they did an extraordinarily effective job. I thought they told a compelling narrative...they…

By Dana Asher, Director of Fundraising & Marketing Communications Department of Institutional Advancement By the end of January, the YU Wall Street Group had already held its second networking event of the year. Following the well-attended program on “Mobility as a Service,” which took on the…

Rabbi David Eliach, beloved educator, longtime principal of Yeshiva of Flatbush and current mentor of teachers there, gave the initial lecture in a course on teaching Tanach [bible] to the Wexner Kollel Elyon and the Israel Henry Beren Institute for Higher Talmudic Studies programs at the Rabbi ...

What can the Egyptian exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art teach us about the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt? Quite a bit, according to Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought. On Jan. 8, 2020, Dr. Soloveichik delivered “…

On Jan. 30, 2020, at the law offices of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought presented “I Swear? Oaths in Halakha and Jewish Law.” The discussion was moderated by Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director of the Straus Center, and…

Dedication. Countless hours of commitment. Sacrifice. Rising to the challenges of adversity. Maximizing one’s natural talents. A religiously infused life and the endeavor of sports have much in common, though they also often come into conflict. We share with you the latest issue of YU Ideas, “Jews…

From Jan. 12 to Jan. 19, 2020, the Center for the Jewish Future, in partnership with Kemp Mill Synagogue (KMS) in Silver Spring, Maryland, ran a one-week winter kollel [symposium] that served to infuse the KMS community with the unique Torah perspective of Yeshiva University as well as offer YU ...