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Dr. Hanni Flaherty On May 5, 2022, Dr. Hanni Flaherty, assistant professor and associate director of curricular and pedagogical innovation at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, published “ Teaching Note—Using Technology to Enhance Experiential Learning Through Simulated Role Plays” in Journal of…

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman Yeshiva University, the flagship Jewish university, is proud to celebrate its 2022 graduates with the school’s 91st commencement ceremony followed by a concert featuring acclaimed Israeli singer Ishay Ribo in one of the largest Jewish stadium music concerts in North American ...

By Sarah Wapner Straus Center On Shabbat of April 29-30, the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates hosted a Scholar in Residence program featuring students from Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies for Women (GPATS). Over the course of the weekend, GPATS students shared…

Akiva Sacknovitz Judah Diament, chair of the computer science department at Yeshiva College, is thrilled to announce the addition of Akiva Sacknovitz ’95YC, ’98R to the department’s faculty, starting in fall 2022. He will be replacing Dr. Van Kelly, who is retiring. Sacknovitz, currently a senior…

Makoto Fujimura | Yale University Press | 2021 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern In Art and Faith: A Theology of Making, artist and theologian Makoto Fujimura offers a moving meditation on what it means to create. Referring to God as the One True Artist, Fujimura often turns to the Bible in ...

The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is proud to announce the incoming class of Straus Scholars who will form the sixth cohort of the Straus Scholars Program. Chosen from among Yeshiva University’s incoming class of undergraduate students in Stern College for Women and…

David Shifteh and Tzuriel Sapir from Dr. Radhashree Maitra’s laboratory attended the 115th Annual Meeting of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) at New Orleans from April 8-13, 2022. Both students had the privilege of presenting their research data as posters. AACR is the oldest and ...

Hannah Aaron and Michael Stark By Anthony O’Hagan Sports Information Director YU Athletics The Yeshiva University Athletics Department held its annual awards dinner, inside the gym at Max Stern Athletic Center, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. It was the first in-person awards ceremony since 2019 as the…

Cardozo News Professor Michael Pollack Appointed Associate Dean of Faculty Development Professor Kate Shaw Discusses SCOTUS and the Future of Roe v. Wade with The Boston Globe Professor Pamela Foohey Comments to Law360 on Student Loan Debt Maria F. Garcia-Syngros ’22C Named A 2022 Equal Justice ...

On Sunday, April 10, 2022, students from the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program went to see the new Broadway play, The Minutes, at Studio 54. Written by Tony- and Pulitzer Award winner Tracy Letts, and produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the play follows the inner workings of a ...