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Mar 15, 2010 -- A strange aroma filled the Washington Heights air as hundreds of students, faculty and curious visitors filed into Yeshiva University’s Weissberg Commons on March 11 for the 2010 Cholent Cook-Off. Sixteen teams made up of 64 students from the men’s undergraduate schools, Yeshiva ...

Students Spice Up Culinary Competition A strange aroma filled the Washington Heights air as hundreds of students, faculty and curious visitors filed into Yeshiva University’s Weissberg Commons on March 11 for the 2010 Cholent Cook-Off. Sixteen teams made up of 64 students from the men’s ...

Wurzweiler’s Joan Beder Studies the Effect on Social Workers Treating Returning Veterans When Dr. Joan Beder saw the film, “Alive Day” – James Galdolfini’s HBO documentary about soldiers returning from battle in Iraq – she began to think about the dearth of national studies on the effects of social…

Mar 10, 2010 -- YUConnects, a program launched by Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) that facilitates social networking and meeting opportunities among Orthodox singles, has organized a “Creating Connections” weekend on May 7-9, 2010. Many communities across North America have…

US News & World Report Ranks Yeshiva University Among Most Popular Universities Mar 9, 2010 -- A recent article published by U.S. News & World Report ranks Yeshiva University sixth among the most popular national universities. The article uses yield—the percentage of applicants accepted by…

New Haggadah Features Commentary by Chancellor Dr. Norman Lamm Just in time for the holidays, the OU Press has published The Royal Table: A Passover Haggadah by Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, chancellor and Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva University. For decades, Dr. Lamm has been mesmerizing audiences with his…

Students Get to the Meat and Potatoes at Cholent Cook-Off on March 11 Yeshiva University students will hold a “Cholent Cook-off” in Weissberg Commons on the Wilf Campus in Washington Heights, on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 2:45 pm. Fifteen teams of four students at Yeshiva College, the men’s ...

Argentinean Basketball Star Finds a Home Away From Home at Yeshiva University As college basketball players around the country study their playbooks in preparation for a playoff run in the NCAA tournament, Martin Leibovich, senior guard for the Yeshiva University Maccabees men’s basketball team ...

Largest Class of Rabbinic Students to be Honored at RIETS Chag HaSemikhah Convocation On Sunday, March 7, 2010 Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and the Yeshiva University community will celebrate the ordination of the most recent class of musmakhim [ordained rabbis] at their Chag…

Cardozo Law Professor and Former Dean Named Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Professor Paul Verkuil was confirmed by the United States Senate on Wednesday, March 3, after being nominated by President Barack Obama as Chairman of the ...