YU News

Sep 1, 2005 -- More than 500 students packed the main beit midrash in Zysman Hall on the Wilf Campus and on the Beren Campus in midtown to hear a videotaped plea from Yisroel Shiff, rabbi of Beth Israel Congregation in New Orleans. Rabbi Shiff was evacuated with his wife and five children from New…

Aug 23, 2005 -- Fourteen of Yeshiva University’s 2005 graduates have decided to spend another year on campus participating in the Presidential Fellows program established by President Richard M. Joel. Now in its second year, the Presidential Fellows program is part of a broader effort to train top…

Aug 22, 2005 -- The annual US News & World Report survey of America’s top universities has once again ranked Yeshiva University (YU) in the top tier of national research universities. It is named with Columbia and NYU as the top universities in the metropolitan area. "We are pleased that US…

Aug 22, 2005 -- More than 40 rabbis from the United States and Canada will gather in Teaneck, NJ, under the auspices of Yeshiva University (YU) Sept. 12-14. The two-and-a half day event, called a yarchei kallah and facilitated by Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, senior scholar of the Center for the Jewish…

Aug 22, 2005 -- This year's annual Yeshiva College Book Project theme is "Science Evolving: Ways of Knowing." The featured book is Stephen Jay Gould's collection of essays, Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History. Click here to learn more about the YC Book Project The Yeshiva College…

Aug 20, 2005 -- Ten Yeshiva University undergraduates spent the summer doing research with top scientific scholars at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as part of two programs that allow undergraduates with interest in science to participate in ongoing research projects. The eight students in…

Aug 17, 2005 -- A parent’s must-read guide to raising a child in today’s society, Balanced Parenting: A Father and a Son – A Rabbi and a Psychologist – Examine Love and Limits in Raising Children (Shaar Press: 2005) gives clear, practical advice on how to achieve the Talmud’s imperative to raise ...

Aug 1, 2005 -- The Orthodox Caucus, a leadership group whose mission is to address challenges facing the Orthodox community and the Jewish community at large, will relocate to Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus and be hosted by the Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) of Yeshiva University (YU). The ...

Aug 1, 2005 -- Four Montrealers are participating in an innovative program at Yeshiva University (YU) this summer. Edith Baumberg and Hana Cohen, teachers at Solomon Schechter Academy of Montreal; Rabbi Yamin Benarroch, dean of students, student advisor, and teacher at Hebrew Academy in Cote St.…

Aug 1, 2005 -- The Orthodox Caucus, a leadership group whose mission is to address challenges facing the Orthodox community and the Jewish community at large, will relocate to Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus and be hosted by the Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) of Yeshiva University (YU). The ...