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Neal’s Fund Helps Student Entrepreneurs Create Startups That Give Back While all entrepreneurs and startups begin with a good idea, most are also driven by the bottom line. But at Yeshiva University, a new fund is enabling students to apply that hybrid of inspired innovation and business acumen to…

Twenty Yeshiva High School Teams Across North America to Compete in YU's Annual Basketball Tournament From March 19-23, 20 yeshiva high school basketball teams from across the United States and Canada will meet at the Max Stern Athletic Center on Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus in Washington ...

Yeshiva University Faculty Receive Grants from U.S. Department of Defense Agency Two Yeshiva University faculty members have been awarded grants by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the United States Department of Defense’s official Combat Support Agency for countering weapons of mass…

Alumni Profile: Jason Schwartz ’93SB For Jason Schwartz ’93SB, making aliyah in the summer of 2008 was truly like coming home. And, having been fortunate to walk a professional path that already exposed him to the landscape of Israeli businesses, his transition to living and working in Israel was…

The annual Revel Shabbaton in Washington Heights offers a great opportunity to socialize with classmates, fellow students, and faculty. This year’s Shabbaton will be on Shabbat Vayakhel-Pekude/Parah, March 13–14, 2015. Highlights include a Friday night dinner catered by Carlos and Gabby’s, Oneg ...

Men's Basketball's Benjy Ritholtz Becomes Second YU Athlete to Earn Consecutive Academic All-American Honors For the second time in as many years, Yeshiva University men's basketball player Benjy Ritholtz has earned one of the highest academic honors a college student-athlete can earn as the senior…

In Professor Roee Holtzer’s Lab, Mentorship and Innovative Research Foster Impressive Student Publications Jennifer Yuan, a doctoral candidate in Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, recently published an article about her pre-doctoral research as a first author in Human…

Revel Talk Sketches Complex Portrait of the Vilna Gaon More than 70 people gathered in Furst Hall on a frigid Thursday evening to hear Bar-Ilan University professor Dr. Raphael Shuchat present a lecture, titled “The Vilna Gaon: Halakhist, Moderate Maskil or Kabbalist?” The event was organized by ...

“This is Yeshiva University” and “Cardozo Life” Receive Gold for Mobile Media For the second year in a row, two of Yeshiva University’s mobile applications have been recognized as winners in the Higher Education Marketing Report’s 2014 Education Digital Marketing Awards. Created for the iPad, ...