Yeshiva University
Skip past mobile menu to footer
YU News
Latest News
Featured News
Yiddish Club Event Reveals Meanings Behind East European Jewish Family Names What’s in a Yiddish name? At the Yeshiva University Yiddish Club’s opening event of the year on Tuesday, November 13, students and faculty members got the opportunity to explore this fascinating piece of Jewish history ...
At YU School Partnership Conference, Educators Are the Experts More than 70 Jewish day school leaders from 62 schools gathered on Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus this week to pool experiences, ideas, connections and resources in a uniquely structured conference that put participants, rather than…
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology Partners with Bronx Psychiatric Center on Innovative Treatment Training for Mentally Ill Dr. Lata K. McGinn, associate professor and director of the clinical psychology program at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, has received a $470…
RIETS and Calvary Hospital Form Collaboration to Serve Orthodox Community Yeshiva University’s affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and Calvary Hospital today announced a collaboration to serve the needs of observant Jews in the metropolitan area in need of information and…
Dov Lerner on Yeshiva University Museum's Eruv Exhibition Shabbat is designed to be a day of rest, relaxation and communal prayer. Due to halakhic restrictions on their carrying items from one place to another, however, observant Jews can become prisoners in their own homes. The rabbis, therefore…
Straus Center Presents Conversation with Alan Dershowitz on November 20 Yeshiva University’s Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought will present a conversation between Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik on Tuesday, November 20 at 7 p.m. in Weissberg…
How Social Media Helped Shape the Presidential Election This year’s election night set new records in social media history. Twitter peaked at 327,000 tweets per minute and President Barack Obama announced his own reelection by tweeting a photo of himself embracing his wife with the caption "Four ...
Supreme Court Justice Offers Advice and Inspiration During Visit to Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law The line snaking around the block said it all—as it was full of students buzzing about the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. And, the evening didn’t disappoint…
Donations, Volunteers Needed in Sandy's Hardest-Hit Regions Monday’s chilly morning found 20 Yeshiva University students running up and down a 17-story building in Far Rockaway. Accompanied by Shay Schachter, assistant rabbi of Far Rockaway’s White Shul, the students carried hot food, donated by ...
Charlie Harary: Sandy Brought Her A Game, Now It’s Time to Bring Ours Tuesday, October 30, 2012. 12:00 am EST “ Hello, 911?” “Yes. How can we help?” Charlie Harary, clinical professor of management and entrepreneurship at Sy Syms. “There is water outside my house and it is rising fast. It’s already…