YU News

Sep 21, 2007 -- Nilda I. Soto, assistant dean for diversity enhancement at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been appointed by Governor Eliot Spitzer to serve on the New York State Minority Health Council. Ms. Soto’s term of service will be through March 2010. As a member of the Minority…

Sep 20, 2007 -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has been awarded a grant of more than $9.25 million from the National Institutes of Health to further the medical school’s study of centenarians and the biology of aging. Led by Dr. Nir Barzilai, director of Einstein’s ...

Sep 20, 2007 -- Some came to read favorite pieces of literature – John Donne’s sonnet, Death Be Not Proud, the George Herbert poem, Life – some came to read tehilim (Psalms). Some held back tears; others gave vent to their emotions. They all came to reflect on the life of Dr. Lana Schwebel, a dear…

Sep 19, 2007 -- Six hundred high school students spent Wednesday evening preparing for one of the yamim noraim (days of awe) in a special way. They got a taste of Yeshiva University’s (YU) vibrant beit midrash (study) experience when they visited YU’s uptown Wilf campus and midtown Israel Henry ...

Sep 18, 2007 -- It began with contributions as small as $180, and has grown into a sum of more than $100,000 in just one year. The YC100 Fund, established by Shai Barnea ’03Y and Josh Goldman ’04SB in September 2006, recently highlighted its exponential growth at a shareholder’s meeting celebrating…

Sep 12, 2007 -- For 12 women and nine men who participated in Yeshiva University’s Jerry and Mary Swartz July in Jerusalem Program, run for the first time this past summer by the university’s Mechinah Program for men and Basic Jewish Studies Program for women and open to college students from…

Sep 11, 2007 -- Thanks to a new eruv (Sabbath boundary marker) in Midtown Manhattan that includes Stern College for Women, students and visitors to the Beren Campus can now carry books, keys, and food, and push baby carriages and wheelchairs on Shabbat, which all amounts to a more relaxed Shabbat…

Sep 11, 2007 -- A “renegade angel” is how Sally Regenhard likes to remember her son, Christian, a probationary firefighter who was killed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center six years ago. Regenhard summoned her son’s memory at a 9/11 memorial event at Yeshiva University this year…

Sep 10, 2007 -- Jackie Saxe of Great Neck, NY, a senior at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, was one of four students nationwide appointed to the executive committee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Each year AIPAC appoints four exceptional student leaders to its…

Sep 7, 2007 -- Young couples facing the challenge of infertility have many more options today due to extraordinary advances in medical research. However, Orthodox families must reconcile not only the medical and ethical issues inherent in addressing fertility problems, but also the parameters of ...