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May 5, 2004 -- The alumni associations of Yeshiva University’s undergraduate colleges gathered to honor eight graduates who have made significant contributions to religious, educational, scholarly, communal, and professional life. The May 4 ceremony at the Yeshiva University Museum presented the ...

May 4, 2004 -- To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which ended segregation in the nation’s schools, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University will sponsor a series of events. They will be held at the Law School, 55…

May 3, 2004 -- Dr. Maurice Wohlgelernter, professor emeritus of English, Baruch College, City University of New York, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from Richard M. Joel, president of Yeshiva University, at its 73rd Annual Commencement on May 20. The exercises will take place at The ...

May 3, 2004 -- Dr. Ruth Roskies Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from Yeshiva University at its 73rd Annual Commencement on May 20. The exercises will take place at The…

May 3, 2004 -- Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, will receive an honorary doctoral degree from Yeshiva University at its 73rd Annual Commencement on May 20. The exercises will take place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, where YU President ...

May 3, 2004 -- The institutionalization of religion in Israel has created a bureaucracy of closed doors, says Rabbi Seth Farber, an advocate for improved relations between religious and secular Jews in that country. He spoke May 2 on “Democracy and Religion: Fighting for Israel’s Soul,” the third…

May 1, 2004 -- The Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will be the featured speaker at the 26th commencement of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University at 3:00pm on Tuesday, June 1, 2004. At the ceremony, which will be held…

Apr 26, 2004 -- The Lower East Side, one of the most famous neighborhoods of New York City, home to thousands of early immigrants, many of whom were Eastern European Jews who determined the shape of the city during much of the 20th Century. As part of YU's ongoing commemoration of the 350th ...

Apr 26, 2004 -- Mixing commemoration and celebration, Yeshiva University students, faculty, and alumni yesterday marked Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) at Wilf Campus with a candlelight vigil to Israel’s fallen soldiers and songs and dancing honoring 56 years of Jewish statehood. Some 600…

Apr 22, 2004 -- How democracy and theocracy coexist will take center stage at a May 2 lecture sponsored by Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women. The discussion, “Democracy and Religion: Fighting for Israel’s Soul,” will take place at 8 pm at the Teaneck, NJ, home of Leora and Jonathan Kukin…