Professor Cynthia Wachtell on Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation Last week, I received an email message from the Ploughshares Fund, a nuclear disarmament advocacy foundation, asking, "What does Mother's Day Mean to You?" Suspecting that the correct answer was something other than a dozen…
Tune into YU’s Weekly Internet Radio Show, Thursdays at 2 P.M. Will New York change with bin Laden gone? Join Mayer Fertig and Miriam L. Wallach today on “Who’s on Furst?” as they welcome Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University and noted author ...
Panelists Offer Insight for Jobs in the Creative Arts at Career Development Center Event When he first started Yeshiva University in 2005, Yishai Seidman said he thought he had three choices: become a lawyer, accountant or doctor. He picked the last path, but after a few semesters he realized ...
David Prezant to Receive 2011 Public Service Award for Work with 9/11 Rescue Workers In honor of his significant clinical care and groundbreaking research with rescue workers who worked at the World Trade Center following the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, David Prezant, M.D., will receive…
SDA Israel Program Students Raise Money and Spirits for Children's Hospital Yeshiva University's S. Daniel Abraham (SDA) Israel Program, in partnership with Here4theYear and Jerusalem's Alyn Pediatric Rehabilitation Hospital, coordinated several exciting and meaningful volunteering opportunities…
Students Document Holocaust Testimonies as Part of Yeshiva University High Schools' Oral History Film Project Growing up as Jews firmly entrenched in the Jewish education system, learning and hearing about the Holocaust was commonplace. Since we were children, we have been exposed to the atrocities…
Tune into YU’s Weekly Internet Radio Show, Thursdays at 2 P.M. With Pesach over and summer right around the corner, join Mayer Fertig and Miriam L. Wallach today on “Who’s on Furst?” as they welcome Dov Perkal, executive director of the SHMA Camps, a family of camps known as camps Sternberg, Heller…
Harvard Economist Alvin Roth Details Life-Saving Theory at Annual Brody Lecture At first glance, the search for a life-saving kidney donation may not seem to have much to do with economics. But Harvard University Professor Alvin Roth applies to that process the same market principles that drive ...
RIETS Presents May 19 Shiur for Former Students of Rabbi Mordechai Willig Yeshiva University affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) will host a reunion shiur for the talmidim of Rabbi Mordechai Willig on Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck…
Foreign Relations Experts Discuss Revolutions in Middle East and the Implications for American Policy at Robbins-Wilf Lecture As collapsing Middle East governments and unease about United States involvement in Libya dominated news headlines, Bloomberg View Executive Editor and former Assistant ...