YU News

Feb 9, 2005 -- Students and staff had the chance to meet and mingle Feb. 8 at a gathering at YU's new office space on the Beren Campus. The eight offices, on the fourth floor of the Geraldine Schottenstein Cultural Center on East 34th St., house the Office of Student Aid and Student Accounts ...

Feb 8, 2005 -- With turnout far exceeding expectations, some 170 participants from around the tri-state area helped kick off Midreshet Yom Rishon, Yeshiva University’s Sunday morning learning initiative for women, at YU’s Wilf Campus Feb. 6. The program, under the auspices of YU’s Max Stern…

Feb 7, 2005 -- On February 2, Yeshiva University (YU) launched Quality Education Skills Training (QUEST), a six-week lecture series that prepares YU undergraduate and graduate students to develop and implement programming at local yeshiva high schools that addresses issues of concern to today’s ...

Feb 7, 2005 -- Students from yeshiva high schools around the United States will gather in Cleveland, TX, approximately 60 miles north of Houston, March 13 - 15 to explore American Jewish identity. Following student-led presentations and panel discussions on the challenges, conflicts and…

Feb 4, 2005 -- Dr. Jacob J. Schacter has been appointed University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and also Senior Scholar at Yeshiva University’s (YU) Center for the Jewish Future by President Richard M. Joel, effective this fall. University Professor is a special faculty position…

Feb 4, 2005 -- Yeshiva University is celebrating 10 years of the Doris & Dr. Ira Kukin Entrepreneurial Lecture Series at the Sy Syms School of Business, which began Feb. 4 with a talk by Marco Zarikian, CEO of Hotel Eurobuilding Internacional (Venezuela). All lectures but one take place Fridays…

Feb 3, 2005 -- Students who stayed on the Wilf Campus during intersession had the chance to continue their learning, thanks to a new program initiated by two students. Dovid Preil, a YC graduate and second-year student at RIETS, and Micael Ellman, a YC senior simultaneously studying at RIETS and ...

Feb 2, 2005 -- The largest Jewish book sale in North America, run by the Student Organization of Yeshiva (SOY), featuring more than 10,000 titles, including the latest in rabbinic and academic literature, cookbooks, children’s books, CDs, and educational software, opened on Feb. 9 and will run…

Feb 1, 2005 -- Efraim Zuroff, YU alumnus and chief Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is leading a mission to track down suspected Nazi war criminals in the country where Nazism was born. Germany is the last of nine countries where the Wiesenthal Center's "Operation: Last Chance" is being…

Feb 1, 2005 -- Yeshiva University (YU) will offer women of all ages, Jewish backgrounds, and educational levels the opportunity to participate in Torah learning on Sunday mornings with YU’s most renowned roshei yeshiva (professors of Talmud) and other prominent Jewish scholars. The Midreshet Yom ...