RIETS Presents Nov. 18 Reunion Shiur for Former Students of Rabbi Hershel Schachter Yeshiva University affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) will host a reunion shiur [lecture] for the talmidim [students] of Rabbi Hershel Schachter on November 18, 2010 at 8:15 p.m. in the ...
Men's Cross Country Team Wins HVMAC Championship, Stan Watson Named Coach of the Year The Yeshiva University Men’s Cross Country team captured the 2010 Hudson Valley Men's Athletic Conference ( HVMAC) Championship on Sunday, October, 24 at Purchase College. The Macs scored 35 points in the 8K race…
Mini Golf Tournament Raises Money for Kids of Courage Clad in neon green t-shirts and lugging along plastic miniature golf club sets, 72 Yeshiva University students took to Tenzer Garden on the Wilf Campus for the first-ever YU Mini-Open. The October 21 event, sponsored by University Housing…
"Killing Kasztner" Program Sparks Passionate Debate, Raises Questions In the darkened auditorium, a quote from Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo flashed across the screen: “Unhappy is the land that has no heroes.” “No,” read the next line. “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” More than 200 ...
Sep 13, 2010 -- Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), an affiliate of Yeshiva University, will honor dedicated leaders and educators of the Jewish community at its Annual Dinner of Tribute on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 at The Grand Hyatt in New York City. Honorees include Guests of ...
Career Development Center Program Offers Parents Tools to Help Students Succeed Upperclassmen who mentor incoming students are supported by a variety of programs on Yeshiva University’s undergraduate campuses, but parents helping other parents? That is something new. On October 17, YU’s Career ...
This year, Rabbi Mordechai Cohen, associate dean of Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, is heading a 13-member international research group sponsored by the Jerusalem Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS). The scholars are studying early Jewish, Christian and Muslim strategies of ...
Dr. Ned Block to Discuss Change and Intentional Blindness at Oct. 21 Lecture Ned Block, a Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science at New York University will give a lecture titled “Consciousness: Rich or Sparse?” sponsored by the Yeshiva University Center for History and ...
Join the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program tonight, October 18 at 7:30 p.m., for playoff baseball and live in-game analysis with noted sabermetrician, Steven Goldman. Watch the New York Yankees take on the Texas Rangers in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series and learn about…
Leader in the Field of Human Rights Law Had Cardozo and YU Ties Louis Henkin, a professor at Columbia Law School with strong ties to the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva University, died on Thursday, October 14. The youngest of six children, Henkin was born on November 11, 1917, in…