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Parnes Clinic Continues to Offer Enhanced and Affordable Services to Bronx Residents in New State-of-the-art Facilities At the start of Mental Health Awareness Month, Yeshiva University leadership, students, and faculty joined with elected officials from New York State and New York City to ...

Yeshiva University Yom HaShoah Ceremony Emphasizes Keeping the Power of Torah Strong On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, the Student Holocaust Education Movement (SHEM) held its annual commemoration honoring Holocaust survivors and victims with the theme of “Preserving the Flame.” This year’s commemoration…

Third Claims Conference Survey Points to Urgent Need for Holocaust Global Education Julius Berman, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany as well as a member of the Yeshiva University Board of Trustees, discusses new data from the Conference’s latest survey on…

Delivering a World-Class Education in Today’s Emerging and Expanding Disciplines Dr. Paul Russo, vice provost and dean of the Katz School Blending research with industry-supplied projects, the Katz School of Science and Health at Yeshiva University delivers an exceptional graduate education that ...

Kayla Garb ’20SB Challenges Stereotypes Kayla Garb, a junior honors student at the Sy Syms School of Business and a Lubavitch Chasid, comes by her passion for fashion honestly. “My grandmother has worked for years at Esti’s The Boutique, a high-fashion clothing store in Flatbush. Because I grew up…

Two Politicians Discuss the Effect of Faith on Public Service On Monday, April 15, 2019, the YU College Democrats hosted a discussion with two politicians about how their faith influences their work as public servants. New York State Senator Robert Jackson represents District 31, which runs from ...

Israel’s Consul General on the Trajectory of Israel’s Future On Monday, April 15, 2019, in Weissberg Commons on the Wilf Campus, Yeshiva University’s Public Action Club welcomed Dani Dayan, Consul General of Israel, for a discussion of Israel’s past, present and future. Addressing a packed audience…

I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. -- Ezekiel 20:10 As the Jewish community concluded Passover on Saturday night - the holiday upon which we commemorate our liberation from Egypt - we were painfully reminded that we still remain in a wilderness…

Combating Campus Anti-Semitism On Tuesday, April 2, 2019, The Simon Wiesenthal Center hosted a High School Leadership Summit that took place at Yeshiva University. Over 130 high school seniors from Jewish high schools in New York and New Jersey learned about the challenges faced by Jewish students…

A Conversation on the Role of Humanities, History and Human Rights Advocacy in Helping Societies Recover However one defines “genocide”—whether as a synonym for any mass killing regardless of size or as an act done with the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or ...