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Aug 3, 2010 -- “Let’s come up with a sentence that uses this phrase,” said instructor Rivka Weiner, in Hebrew, to the group of students in her Ulpan (a Hebrew term for an intensive Hebrew language course). “‘As the result of this’, that occurred. Anyone?” Rabbi Enan Francis, principal of Southern…

Aug 30, 2010 -- Neon lights—green, blue and red—flickered across the stage. The sustained rasp of a cymbal and a deep, echoing bass filled the theater. More than 300 students began a slow, steady clap, raising their hands high above their heads, as Gad Elbaz took the stage at Yeshiva University’s…

Aug 25, 2010 -- Rabbi Elchanan Adler and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein will be the featured speakers at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary’s (RIETS) 26th Annual Hausman/Stern Kinus Teshuva lectures. Both lectures, given between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, will take place in New York City and…

Aug 24, 2010 -- Six Yeshiva University students will intensify their focus on advanced undergraduate-level research this year as part of the Henry Kressel Research Scholarship program. The scholarship—established by Dr. Henry Kressel, chairman of the YU Board of Trustees, managing director of ...

Aug 24, 2010 -- More than 600 men and women from all corners of the world flooded Yeshiva University’s Wilf and Beren campuses this week to begin their undergraduate study at the only institution that promises to enrich both their secular and spiritual knowledge. Hailing from more than a dozen ...

Aug 24, 2010 -- This fall, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program will offer senior honor students and newcomers alike a rare opportunity: to mentor and be mentored by their own. Dr. Gabriel Cwilich, director of the Honors Program, has announced a new teaching fellowship program in which…

Ambitious Students Prepare to Embark on Their Yeshiva University Journey More than 600 men and women from all corners of the world flooded Yeshiva University’s Wilf and Beren campuses this week to begin their undergraduate study at the only institution that promises to enrich both their secular and…

New Teaching Fellowship Program Allows Honors Students to Serve as Teaching Assistants This fall, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program will offer senior honor students and newcomers alike a rare opportunity: to mentor and be mentored by their own. Dr. Gabriel Cwilich, director of the ...