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Prof. Nechama Price, director of the Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS), and Shoshana Schechter, associate dean of Torah Studies and Spiritual Life at Stern College for Women and director of its Mechina program, are pleased to announce new additions to GPATS. A new shana gimmel…

Jeffrey Bloom, Alec Goldstein, and Gil Student | Kodesh Press | 2022 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern In Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith, editors Jeffrey Bloom, Alec Goldstein, and Gil Student assemble 17 learned reflections on the nature of Orthodox ...

Cardozo News Professor Pamela Foohey Speaks to Marketplace About Alternative Credit Scores Professor Kathryn Miller’s Article, “The Myth of Autonomy Rights,” is Featured on Death Penalty Information Center Professor Michel Rosenfeld Publishes Two Books Faculty Scholarship & News Professor…

The online cybersecurity master’s degree program at the Katz School for Science and Health at Yeshiva University was ranked by Fortune magazine as the No. 2 cybersecurity graduate program in the country, putting the University in good company with prestigious schools such as the University of ...

The highly anticipated volume of The Orthodox Forum series, Contemporary Uses and Forms of Hasidut, was recently published with Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier ’11YC, ’13R, ’13BR as the volume editor. This latest edition, published by YU Press, reflects upon new directions in neo-Hasidic thought and ...

Cardozo News Professor Kate Shaw Quoted by Top-Tier Outlets on SCOTUS Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade: ABC News, Good Morning America, Washington Post ( first op-ed and second op-ed) and New York Times. Professor Michael Herz Speaks to The Hill on SCOTUS' Ruling in West Virginia v. EP Professor ...

Dr. Paul Russo, vice provost and dean of the Katz School of Science and Health, announced the Katz School Faculty Research Initiative, which will provide financial and research support to projects by Katz School faculty as well as to collaborations between YU faculty, including Albert Einstein ...

Yeshiva University graduates have achieved an average medical school acceptance rate that is more than two times the national average. National admissions average for medical schools typically hovers at about 45%. Over the past decade, 451 Yeshiva University undergraduate students have successfully…

Straus Scholars with Dr. Ruth Wisse On June 12, 2022, several Straus Scholars attended the Tikvah Fund’s annual Jewish Leadership Conference (JLC). The conference aimed "to develop a new political and cultural vision for American Jewry, and to bring together Jews who believe that conservative ideas…

Rabbi Soloveichik Teaching at Jewish and Western Texts in Conversation On June 20 and June 23, 2022, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted its annual summer seminars for high school students, Jewish and Western Texts in Conversation. Held in Manhattan, the ...