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Avigail Varnai, Martin Leibovich, Elizabeth Penn and Chana Gila Ovits Earn All-Conference Honors; Dr. Jonathan Halpert Named Coach of the Year; Lady Macs Win Sportsmanship Award Their regular seasons may be over, but both the men's and women's basketball programs, as well as two fencers, have waged…

Cardozo's 18th Annual Public Service Auction Awards Students Working in Public Sector Cardozo's 18th Annual Public Service Auction will take place on Thursday, March 11. All proceeds will go to fund summer stipends for students working in the public sector this summer. In addition, beginning on ...

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announce New Collaborative Degree Programs On Monday, February 22, Cardozo’s Program in Family Law, Policy and Bioethics hosted a panel of speakers to discuss the introduction of two new joint degree programs: the J.D./M.PH…

Seven Centuries of Jewish Tradition Spring to Vivid Life at March 21 U.S. Premiere of Braginsky Manuscript and Book Collection Direct from its world premiere in Amsterdam, the Yeshiva University Museum will host the first-ever U.S. showing of an extraordinary private collection -- A Journey Through…

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks Honored with Inaugural Lamm Prize Commemorating YU's Chancellor Yeshiva University will honor Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks as the inaugural recipient of the Norman Lamm Prize, March 16-21. As the capstone of the Lamm Heritage—a tribute to Dr. Lamm—the Lamm Prize pays…

Mar 1, 2010 -- Yeshiva University will honor Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks as the inaugural recipient of the Norman Lamm Prize, March 16-21. As the capstone of the Lamm Heritage—a tribute to Dr. Lamm—the Lamm Prize pays homage to Dr. Lamm’s lifetime of scholarly achievement. In addition to the ...

S. Daniel Abraham Program Art Competition Draws 200 Young Women Studying in Israel The Yeshiva University Israel Campus auditorium was transformed into an art gallery on Monday evening, when 29 works – all by women studying in Israel for a year – went on display for the third annual S. Daniel ...

Feb 17, 2010 -- Cholent, for hundreds of years the traditional Sabbath-day meal for observant Jews in many countries, is a food for which there is no standard recipe; its ingredients are as diverse as the places where Jews have lived. A slow-cooked stew containing meat, vegetables, potatoes, beans…

Doctors Urged to Manage Cardiovascular Risk Factors of Migraine Sufferers Migraine sufferers are twice as likely to have heart attacks as people without migraine, according to a new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The study, published in the ...

Stern College Senior, Tamara Freiden, Finds Common Ground in El Salvador By Tamara Freiden, senior at Stern College for Women The single most surprising thing I saw in El Salvador was not the dust-strewn shacks made of thin slabs of aluminum hardly able to keep a drizzle out, let alone the downpour…