YU News

Feb 4, 2009 -- Hundreds of high school students from across North America will gather at the Sheraton Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut to debate the world’s fate at the 19th annual Yeshiva University National Model United Nations (YUNMUN) conference. The event will take place on February 8 – 10 and…

Feb 3, 2009 -- Hundreds of high school students from across North America will gather at the Sheraton Hotel in Stamford, CT, to debate the world’s fate at the 19th annual Yeshiva University National Model United Nations (YUNMUN) conference. The event will take place on Feb. 8 – 10 and is expected…

Feb 3, 2009 -- McGraw-Hill Construction has presented its "Best of the Best" Health Care Project Award for 2008 to the Michael F. Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine/Harold and Muriel Block Research Pavilion at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The competition recognizes ...

Feb 3, 2009 -- “Fear, loathing, terror, scapegoating, victim-blaming,” the shunning of “so-called undesirables:” these were the responses of Christians to their Jewish neighbors during the Black Death, the plague pandemic that killed at least a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century. The…

Feb 2, 2009 -- In an effort to increase the number of highly qualified teachers of math and science in middle and high schools, Yeshiva University and New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development have created a partnership allowing eligible undergraduate ...

Jan 29, 2009 -- Francophiles and all who love great cinema will have reason to rejoice come February. For the very first time, Yeshiva University hosts the Tournées Film Festival, February 5–23. This festival brings the best of contemporary French films to the YU community. The full schedule of ...

Jan 29, 2009 -- The AVI CHAI Foundation has given a grant to fund Religious Understanding in Adolescent Children (RUACH), a new project of the Institute for University-School Partnership at Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. The two-year collaborative initiative between…

Jan 26, 2009 -- On February 24, the students and rabbis at Yeshivat Mercaz Ha’Rav and Yeshivat Yerushalayim LeTze’irim in Jerusalem will commemorate the first anniversary of the tragic massacre of eight young students in a shooting spree last year with the dedication of eight Torah scrolls, one for…

Jan 26, 2009 -- Expressing sensitivity to the growing challenges presented by the current economic downturn both institutionally and to families of its current and prospective students, Yeshiva University announced today that it will not raise tuition at the undergraduate level for the 2009-2010 ...

Jan 26, 2009 -- Yeshiva University’s (YU) will hold its annual SOY (Student Organization of Yeshiva) Seforim Sale from February 1 to 22 on YU’s Wilf Campus in Manhattan, Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue. Last year the acclaimed Judaica book sale drew more than 15,000 people from the tri-state…