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Cardozo News Work of Civil Rights Clinic, Led by Professor Betsy Ginsberg, Profiled in The New York Times Professor Samuel Weinstein Speaks to Canadian Broadcasting Company About Dynamic Pricing Faculty Scholarship & News Professor Richard Weisberg’s article, “Robert Cover's Love of Stories: A…

(l-r): Rabbi Neal Turk, Rabbi Avi Weschler and Rabbi Menachem Penner at the Advanced Certificate in Pastoral Counseling Graduation Ceremony on June 26, 2022 This past February, Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) announced…

In an ongoing effort to share the teachings of today’s leading Talmidei Chachamim [Torah scholars], TorahWeb has published a new and highly anticipated volume, Torah Essays by Rav Hershel Schachter & Rav Mayer Twersky on Fundamental Halachic and Hashkafic Issues. Rabbi Hershel Schachter is rosh…

Zena Hitz | Princeton University Press | 2020 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz argues for intellectual pursuits for no ulterior motive (what rabbinic Jews would call lishmah). Hitz, raised a secular Jew, converted to ...

In August 2019, at the start of her sophomore year, Rachel Doretsky ’22SB promised herself that by the time she graduated, she would snag a great job that allowed her to make aliyah. Rachel Doretsky This September, the Long Island native will keep that promise when she joins McKinsey & Company…

Cardozo News Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum Co-Authors Chapter in ‘Gender and International Criminal Law’ Book Professor Peter Goodrich Co-Edits Two Books Faculty Scholarship & News Professor Peter Goodrich participated in the lecture “Ordo, lex, comœdium” at Unsettling Law, the annual ...

Kurt Rothschild z"l Yeshiva University and its affiliates, the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and Canadian Friends of Yeshiva University (CFYU), mourn the passing of Kurt Rothschild. A Holocaust survivor, he served on the Board of RIETS and was a past president of CFYU. In 1997…

Joseph Panzarella, director of Katz's Digital Marketing and Media Program (third from left) celebrates with student presenters. The Katz School of Science and Health recently published the proceedings of its first annual Symposium on Science, Technology and Health, held on May 12, 2022. Organized…

Screenshot from Dean Wasserman's session with students Earlier this year, Dr. Noam Wasserman, dean of the Sy Syms School of Business, had a unique opportunity to extend one of the four pillars of YU, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, to a college in Africa. Davis College in Rwanda reached out to…