YU News

Oct 14, 2004 -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University broke ground on Oct. 13 for a 201,000 square foot research building at the corner of Morris Park Avenue and Eastchester Road in the Bronx. The new $200 million facility, to be built on property leased from the New York City…

Oct 13, 2004 -- The Leonard and Bea Diener Institute of Jewish Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the Rebecca Ivry Department of Jewish Studies at Stern College for Women will host an international conference, “Between Rashi and Maimonides: Themes in Medieval Jewish Law, Thought, and ...

Oct 13, 2004 -- Rabbi Nosson Slifkin - also known as the "Zoo Rabbi" - came to the Beren Campus Oct. 13 to give two talks about the animals, Torah, and evolution. Rabbi Slifkin is an author and teacher at Midreshet Moriah, Peninim seminary, and Yeshivat Lev HaTorah. He also leads "Torah tours" at…

Oct 13, 2004 -- As Stern College for Women celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, the Yeshiva University Museum (YUM) is marking the school’s milestone with an exhibit that highlights its growth and achievements. “Five Decades. One Dream,” the history of YU’s undergraduate women’s college ...

Oct 12, 2004 -- Joseph Wilf of Hillside, NJ, chief executive officer of Garden Homes Management, a Union, NJ-based real estate development, building, and management firm, has been elected vice chairman of the board of trustees of Yeshiva University (YU). Mr. Wilf, a Holocaust survivor, became ...

Oct 12, 2004 -- Warren Eisenberg, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Bed Bath & Beyond, was elected to the board of trustees of Yeshiva University (YU). Mr. Eisenberg became involved in the university’s leadership in 2000, when he joined the board of YU’s Sy Syms School of Business. He…

Oct 12, 2004 -- Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton, Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a leader in DNA research, delivered the 2004 Ira Kukin Chemistry Lecture, "DNA Charge Transport: Chemistry and Biology," on Monday, October 11…

Oct 6, 2004 -- Scientific research conducted by Alex Kushnir, a Yeshiva College junior and Monsey, NY, native, was featured in an article in The Journal News, a Gannett daily newspaper serving Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland counties. Mr. Kushnir’s research in the molecular cardiology lab of Dr…

Oct 5, 2004 -- Paul D. Brusiloff was elected a member of Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Board of Directors at a meeting held in early September. Mr. Brusiloff, a partner with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, is a 1991 summa cum laude graduate of the Law School, where he served…

Oct 4, 2004 -- An analysis of how Jewish law and ethics affect scientific advances and research will highlight an Oct. 24 discussion sponsored by Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. The lecture, “When Man Creates Man: Assisted Reproduction, Cloning, and Stem Cell Research through the…