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On Shabbat Parshat Vayeshev, our resident scholar Chaya Sima Koenigsberg delivered a Seudah Shlishit shiur at the Mount Sinai Jewish Center in Washington Heights to a full audience entitled, “A Kinah in Kislev.” Her lecture, which took place on the 23rd day of Kislev, commemorated the murder of the…

According to Dr. Rana Khan, the MS in Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship (BME) at the Katz School of Science and Health is one of a handful of national biotechnology graduate programs that are interdisciplinary in nature and focused on entrepreneurship. Dr. Khan, the founding director of…

We are excited to announce that Names, Not Numbers will receive its world premiere at the Miami Jewish Film Festival, screening at the Jewish Museum of Florida on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, at 7 p.m. From the Festival website about the event: This compelling and timely film follows the experience of a…

Last year, Liesl Schwabe, director of the writing program at Yeshiva College, was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, a seven-month grant that supported her as she taught several writing classes and conducted research at Presidency University in Kolkata, India…

The Wurzweiler School of Social Work’s Care Café is helping make the New Year a little brighter for families at PS 188, the Island School. Located on the Lower East Side, The Island School serves approximately 480 families who are low income and in major need of assistance. Many of these families…

For students looking to build a career in real estate, the YU Career Center, along with the YU Real Estate Club and YU Networking Club, put together an innovative event on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, where participants had the chance to pitch professionals in the field and get answers to their ...

The Yeshiva University Office of the Provost and the American Jewish Committee (AJC), a longstanding pioneer in interreligious relations, convened a meeting of American Muslim and Modern Orthodox Jewish leaders on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, for conversations on the theme of “Tradition and Modernity ...

Campus News Professor Deborah Pearlstein Talks Impeachment on WNYC, MSNBC and BBC Radio Professor Deborah Pearlstein commented on the Impeachment podcast with WNYC's Brian Lehrer, “an impeachable offense doesn’t have to be a crime as currently embodied in the federal criminal code; the existing ...

The women of Sy Syms School of Business and Stern College for Women had the pleasure of meeting Miri Yoskowitz, partner at KPMG Israel, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, for a breakfast meeting about how to balance work, faith, family and fun. Miri Yoskowitz (center left) with Michael Strauss, associate…

On Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, over three dozen student-athletes crowded into Belfer 921 to hear advice from a panel of five former YU student-athletes about how their lives as YU players helped them achieve career success in an event co-organized by the YU Career Center and the Athletics Department. On…