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Oct 25, 2004 -- Students from Stern College for Women and Sy Syms School of Business on the Beren Campus recently presented persuasive arguments focusing on economic issues at the heart of this year's presidential election. The presentations were part of an interactive debate, featuring commentary…

Oct 25, 2004 -- An analysis of how Jewish law and ethics affect scientific advances and research formed the backdrop of an October 24 panel discussion “When Man Creates Man: Assisted Reproduction, Cloning, and Stem Cell Research through the Prism of Halacha and Ethics.” The fifth in a seven-part ...

Oct 22, 2004 -- Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel and Chancellor Norman Lamm joined leaders of the university’s Board of Trustees and Stern College for Women’s Board of Directors at an October 21 gala dinner at the Yeshiva University Museum to celebrate the opening of “Five Decades. One…

Oct 21, 2004 -- Students will have an opportunity to learn leadership skills during a special Shabbaton with President Richard M. Joel, October 22-23, Parshat Lech Lecha. President and Mrs. Joel will join students from Stern College for Women, Sy Syms School of Business, and Yeshiva College on the…

Oct 21, 2004 -- Yeshiva University’s Sephardic Community Program and the Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies hosted a delegation of professional and lay leaders from Montreal’s Sephardic community on Oct.13 and 14. Photo Gallery of Montreal's Sephardic Leaders visit Members of the Unified…

Oct 21, 2004 -- Until the founding of Yeshiva College, observant Jews who planned to pursue undergraduate studies had two choices: suffer the slings and arrows of unfriendly academia—a world that openly disdained Jewish traditions and mores—or forego college altogether. Read the entire article.

Oct 20, 2004 -- Yeshiva University students will have the opportunity to interact with author Salman Rushdie during his visit to campus on November 10. Mr. Rushdie will participate in a class as well as give a lecture at the university’s Wilf Campus in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan at…

Oct 18, 2004 -- On Oct. 17, Sy Syms School of Business kicked off its innovative new series on ethical dilemmas in the workplace with a program at Torah Academy of Bergen County in Teaneck, NJ. “An Interactive Forum: Case Studies of Halacha in Workplace Predicaments” was the first of three series…

Oct 15, 2004 -- Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel today announced the appointment of Rabbi Kenneth Brander of Boca Raton, FL, as the inaugural dean of the Center for the Jewish Future, effective July 1, 2005. The Yeshiva University Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) will serve as the ...

Oct 15, 2004 -- At their kick-off event Tuesday night, the Israel Clubs of Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women launched Teach for Israel, a program that trains YU students to teach Israel advocacy and awareness to high school students. Also at the 8 pm event in Weissberg Commons on the Wilf…