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Enjoy the stimulating and engaging work being done by these Yeshiva University faculty across the campuses Dr. Cynthia Wachtell Daniel Pollack Dr. Ran Drori Dr. Jess Olson Dr. Joy Ladin Dr. Edward Belbruno Dr. Gabriel Cwilich Barbara Blatner Dr. Jeffrey Gurock Dr. S. Abraham Ravid Dr. Cynthia ...

Yeshiva University is home to almost 400 international students from close to sixty countries. International students enrich the YU community and serve as ambassadors once they return home. In recognition of the diversity they bring to our university experience, YU joined other institutions of ...

On November 19, 2019, Straus Center Director Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik and Senior Advisor to the Provost and Senior Program Officer of the Straus Center Dr. Stu Halpern addressed a warm and welcoming packed house at Brigham Young University, in a celebration of the Center’s best-selling book ...

Rana Kahn, Director Biotech Program/Katz school From the gene-editing powers of CRISPR-Cas9 to the creation of “clean meat” technologies, the biotechnology field continues to top one new development with another in rapid succession, and because of this innovative velocity, there is an increasing ...

If there’s a tech topic that dominates economic discussions today, that topic would be the way artificial intelligence (also known as AI, machine learning and neural networks) has reshaped how businesses have to do their business. To inaugurate the Yeshiva University Technology Group, a new ...

The audience filled the moot court room of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law to capacity on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, to hear Tal Ben-Shahar deliver the annual lecture of the Dr. Marcia Robbins-Wilf Scholar-in-Residence Program, “Judaism and the Source of Happiness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern ...

Fall 2019 • Volume 64/No.1 Hana Frankl NASW-NYC Social Work in the City Spotlight Wurzweiler Care Café®: Finding Community, Making Connections, Discovering Hope & Inspiration Hana Frankl, Director Wurzweiler Care Café® Wurzweiler Care Café® is a grant funded program that allows Wurzweiler…

On Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, three teams of three students each—one from Yeshiva College and two from Stern College for Women—traveled to the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey, to take part in a five-hour contest, competing against such universities as Columbia, Princeton ...

Some couples alternate taking out the garbage, others rotate the laundry schedule, a careful dance of your turn, my turn. For Jill Joshowitz ’13S, ’15BR and Jonathan (Yoni) Zisook ’13YC, ’13BR, that marital two-step crosses borders—and continents. Both Jill and Yoni are working toward obtaining ...