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YU School Partnership Builds Infrastructure of Support and Mentoring for New Teachers in 15 Schools With alarmingly low teacher retention rates in schools across North America, especially among new hires, more and more Jewish day schools and institutions are recognizing the need for increased ...
Gruen Fund, YU Institute for University-School Partnership Award Grants to 12 Jewish Day Schools The Ethel and Ronald Gruen Endowed Fund for the Advancement of Secondary Jewish Education announced today that it will award grants of $20,000 each to eight schools across the country that are intended…
Cardozo's Deborah Pearlstein on the Affordable Care Act's Constitutionality, Future Impact Following the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision largely to uphold the Affordable Care Act, much of the commentary by leading constitutional law scholars and practitioners has focused on the longer term…
YU Israeli Summer Camp Service Learning Initiative to Serve 300 Underprivileged Campers The Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) announced today that its Counterpoint Israel Program, a month-long service-learning initiative that aims to empower the next generation of Israeli youth…
Rabbi Julius Berman on Life in Jewish Communal Work and his Relationship with the Rav The latest issue of Ami Magazine features an interview with Rabbi Julius Berman, outgoing chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and executive committee of Yeshiva…
Alumnus and Longtime YU Libraries Contributor Honored at June 26 Reception On June 26, Yeshiva University honored Professor Ronald Rubin '57YUHS at YU Libraries, in a special reception organized in recognition and appreciation of his many gifts to YU in recent years, including his gifts to the ...
Einstein Faculty React to Historic Supreme Court Ruling on Affordable Care Act Reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling concerning the Affordable Care Act has been swift. The high court’s ruling to largely uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has significant implications for ...
Dr. Matthew Miller and Students Bring Yiddish Translation to Whitman Archive In his celebrated poem “To You,” Walt Whitman wrote, “None have understood you, but I understand you.” The line, an example of Whitman’s trademark empathy with America’s culturally diverse working class, has hit home for…
Gemara Conference Brings Educators Together to Brainstorm New Goals, Standards and Techniques On June 20, a group gathered in Yeshiva University’s Belfer Hall to engage in passionate debate about the gemara, their arguments peppered with yeshivish sprach [classic Talmudic terminology] and citations…
Professor Steven Fine Leads Rome Research into Aftermath of Temple Destruction From June 5 to 7, 2012 an international team of scholars led by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies in partnership with the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma undertook a pilot study of…
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