Up-and-Coming YouTube Star, Reviewer, and Music Producer Jeremy Katz ’14YC (with a BA in music) is one busy music man. He just added the upright bass, the shakuhachi (a Japanese flute) and the Xaphoon (known as the “pocket sax”) to his repertoire, bringing the number of instruments he can play to…
Yeshiva University Grants Tenure to Twenty Faculty Members The Yeshiva University Board of Trustees recently awarded tenure to 20 faculty members across the University’s undergraduate and graduate schools. The newly-tenured professors are Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena ...
Yeshiva University and Young Israel of Fort Lee Present Summer Learning Series with Dr. Jeffrey Gurock Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) in collaboration with Young Israel of Fort Lee (YIFL) will present two lectures by Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of…
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Among Recipients of 2016 Bradley Prize On June, 15 2016, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, was awarded one of The Bradley Prizes by The Bradley Foundation ...
New York State Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder to Lead Yeshiva University Government Relations Efforts Yeshiva University announced New York State Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder will lead its government relations efforts beginning this fall. Goldfeder will work to strengthen and develop relationships…
Student-Run Summer Program Will Empower 200 Israeli Youth in Arad, Dimona and Kiryat Malachi For the eleventh straight year, Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future will run the Counterpoint Israel Program, an immersive service-learning initiative that aims to empower the next generation…
RIETS Rabbinical Student Akiva Neuman '15SB Competes on American Ninja Warrior On June 27 on NBC, rabbi-in-training Akiva Neuman, sporting his kippah and tzitzit, will attack the obstacle course of American Ninja Warrior to prove that physical fitness is part and parcel of being an Orthodox Jew and…
Scholarship Supports Advanced Undergraduate Research and Faculty Mentorship Five exceptional students have been selected as recipients of the 2016-17 Henry Kressel Research Scholarship. Established in 2008 by Dr. Henry Kressel, Yeshiva University chairman emeritus and a Yeshiva College alumnus—the…
Staff Celebrate Employee Appreciation Event With Food, Music and Activities On Tuesday, June 21, the Human Resources Department presented Employee Appreciation Day on Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus. Hundreds of staff gathered in Weissberg Commons and Tenzer Gardens to take part in the annual…
Sy Syms Dean Selected to Take Part in 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival Dr. Moses Pava, dean of the Sy Syms School of Business and the Alvin Einbender Professor of Business Ethics, has been selected as an Arthur Vining Davis Foundations’ Aspen Fellow at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival June 26-29. The Fellows…