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Aug 4, 2010 -- Twenty undergraduate and graduate faculty members will join Yeshiva University’s diverse roster of scholars this fall. Four professors—Drs. Douglas Burgess, Alessandro Citanna, Andreas Hamel and Yuxi Zheng—will be teaching at both Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women. Burgess…

New Appointments Have Been Made at Stern, YC, Cardozo, Ferkauf and Sy Syms Twenty undergraduate and graduate faculty members will join Yeshiva University’s diverse roster of scholars this fall. Four professors—Drs. Douglas Burgess, Alessandro Citanna, Andreas Hamel and Yuxi Zheng—will be teaching…

Ulpan Offered by Azrieli's Institute for University-School Partnership Helps Teachers Strengthen their Hebrew Instructional Skills “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 ...

Aug 2, 2010 -- Hundreds of leaders representing more than 80 Jewish communities descended upon Disney World’s Magic Kingdom by the busload. However, they weren’t at the legendary theme park to meet its famous characters or experience the rides, but for a rare opportunity to take a peek “behind the…

Hundreds Convene at ChampionsGate National Leadership Conference Presented by Yeshiva University's Center for the Jewish Future Hundreds of leaders representing more than 80 Jewish communities descended upon Disney World’s Magic Kingdom by the busload. However, they weren’t at the legendary theme…

Rabbi Kenneth Brander on Today’s Youth’s Views on Individuality, Community and the Future of Jewish Leadership Rabbi Kenneth Brander is the David Mitzner Dean of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. The CJF will be convening leaders of the Jewish community from July 29 to Aug. 1 for…

Jul 26, 2010 -- Chaya Batya (C.B.) Neugroschl, an educator with nearly 20 years of pedagogic, curricular and administrative experience in both Limudei Kodesh and general studies, has been named head of school of the Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central). The appointment is the ...

Using the Latest Imaging Technologies, Dr. Steven Fine and a Team of Researchers are Revolutionizing the Way Artifacts are Viewed When the first Dead Sea Scrolls were sold to famed archaeologist Yigael Yadin in 1949 by Athanasius Samuel—the Syrian patriarch of Jerusalem, who was by then living in…

C.B. Neugroschl Will Set the Course for Continued Growth C.B. Neugroschl Jul 26, 2010 -- Chaya Batya (C.B.) Neugroschl, an educator with nearly 20 years of pedagogic, curricular and administrative experience in both Limudei Kodesh and general studies, has been named head of school of the Yeshiva ...

New York Attorney General Candidates Face off at Cardozo Jul 22, 2010 -- Cardozo School of Law hosted a debate on July 20 among the Democratic candidates vying for New York attorney general in September’s primary, drawing a packed audience to the school’s Jacob Burns Moot Courtroom to hear from the…