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The Aaron and Blanche Schreiber Torah Tours Program sent over 120 students from Yeshiva University to 22 communities to enliven the Simchat Torah holiday. Participating students spread enthusiasm, Torah knowledge, energy, and passion across North America, forming partnerships that will last far ...

The following story comes from Simone Morabito, an LLM international student at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, expected to graduate in January 2020 in general studies with a concentration in intellectual property. He speaks about how his love of running in the New York City marathon led him…

During the holiday of Sukkot, five YU rebbeim [rabbis] invited former and current talmidim [students] to their sukkahs to reconnect and reflect as they celebrated a simchas beis hashoeva [celebration held during the intermediate days of Sukkot] with singing and divrei torah [words of Torah]. The ...

The heavy rains that poured down on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, did not dampen the enthusiasm of the Ferkauf and Friends Brunch, a yearly event where faculty, staff and students from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology come together to welcome the incoming first-year students and their families ...

Two new master’s degree programs in special education at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work combine a compassionate approach to human welfare with a strong pedagogical foundation for teachers instructing students with varied abilities and special needs. One program will cover teaching students ...

Rabbi Dr. Yakov Nagen ’89YC, ’89BR, ’94R, is a Rabbi at the Otniel Yeshiva in Israel and a leading figure in encounters between Judaism and Eastern religions. In two lectures sponsored by the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, The Katz School of Science and Health, the Chinese-Jewish…

Barbara Blatner Barbara Blatner, lecturer in English at Yeshiva College, directed two of her plays this past summer: Light at the Philipstown Depot Theatre’s Glass Ceiling Breaker festival and Advances in Communication at the Secret Theatre One-Act Play Festival in Long Island City. “I had directed…

Where do you think the co-founder of the NYC Marathon has an office? Not in Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island or even mid-Manhattan, nor anywhere along the route where thousands of participants race each year. It’s in Furst Hall, Room 026B, on the Wilf Campus of Yeshiva University, also ...

Designer Steve Madden Designer Steve Madden started his conversation in Cardozo’s Moot Court Room with a confession: “I’m thinking I should’ve worn better shoes.” Madden’s outspoken personality and honesty continued to shine through at the FAME and Fashion Law Society (FLS) event “An Evening with…

On October 28, 2019, the Straus Center Scholars Program and GPATS hosted Rabbi Yakov Nagen for a joint lunch and learn. Rabbi Nagen, a graduate of Yeshiva College, RIETS, and the Bernard Revel Graduate School, completed his PhD in Jewish philosophy at Hebrew University and currently teaches Talmud…