YU News

May 6, 2005 -- The memory of the murders of more than six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II is seared in the hearts and minds of people everywhere. Speakers at Yeshiva University’s annual Yom Hashoah memorial event May 4 in Weissberg Commons want to ensure that memory never fades. “We…

Mar 29, 2005 -- Dr. J. Ladin, PhD, assistant professor of English at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University’s undergraduate school of liberal arts and sciences for women, received a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Ladin's research will focus on American ...

Mar 29, 2005 -- William Stenhouse, PhD, assistant professor of history at both Stern College for Women and Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University’s undergraduate schools of liberal arts and sciences for women and men, respectively, received a fellowship from The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in…

Mar 21, 2005 -- More than 450 people, including Sen. Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Israel Consul General Arye Mekel, and Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman turned out at The Plaza Hotel March 20 to congratulate Rabbi Arthur Schneier on his 75th ...

Mar 21, 2005 -- Yeshiva high school students from around the United States gathered March 13-15 in Houston, TX, for “If We are for Ourselves, Who are We?”, a student leadership development conference. One in a series sponsored by Eimatai, an initiative of Yeshiva University (YU), it addressed ...

Mar 15, 2005 -- Former Solicitor General Seth Waxman spent two-days immersed in law school life, sharing his invaluable experience by discussing his recent Supreme Court victory, leading a Moot Court master class, teaching Constitutional Law, and delivering a public lecture at the Benjamin N ...

Mar 15, 2005 -- February was an extremely successful month for Cardozo’s moot court, as second-year students Rachel Lubert and Rebecca Hagenson of the Moot Court Honor Society won Vanderbilt University’s prestigious National First Amendment Moot Court Competition and Jeremy Sussman and Andrew Pak…

Mar 14, 2005 -- More than 250 YU undergraduates and 25 students from other schools attended a special shabbaton sponsored by the Israel Club March 11-12. The shabbaton, called "A Teetering Balance: What Kind of World Will Israel Face Tomorrow?", took place on the Beren Campus and featured three ...

Mar 14, 2005 -- Atlanta native Benjamin Lefkove, a senior at Yeshiva College at Yeshiva University in New York City, was listed as co-author of a paper in the December 2004 issue of Journals of Biological Chemistry for research he conducted last summer at Emory University. Mr. Lefkove researched ...

Mar 14, 2005 -- Yeshiva University professor Richard C. Steiner of Kew Gardens Hills achieved a once-in-a-lifetime recognition for his work as a Hebrew linguist this January, when Israel’s Academy of the Hebrew Language invited him to become one of the first two non-Israeli members in some 40 years…