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Cardozo News Professor Betsy Ginsberg Says in Reuters Civil Rights Clinic Victory in Louisiana Lawsuit May Impact Other Prisons Professor Kate Shaw Tells Newsweek Congress Unlikely to Use Contempt Powers against Trump Professor Edward Zelinsky Comments in Law360 on Recusal of Judge in Maryland Tax…

Prof. Michael Eric Herz According to Public Law 108-447, div. J, § 111(b), 18 Stat. 2809, 3344-45 (Dec. 8, 2004), “Each educational institution that receives Federal funds for a fiscal year shall hold an educational program on the United States Constitution on September 17 of such year for the ...

On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, His Excellency Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa, secretary general of the Muslim World League, visited Yeshiva University to participate in “Jews and Muslims: A Look Toward the Future,” the inaugural conversation in the Presidential Forum series, in which Yeshiva ...

Third- and fourth-year rabbinic students at the Yeshiva University-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) will receive enhanced apprenticeship training on their journey to the rabbinate, thanks to a newly created program launched in August 2021. The Miriam and Jack Zwas ...

Dr. Ronnie Perelis is the Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Chair, associate professor of Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and director of the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs. From its very ...

Dr. Rachel Mesch Dr. Rachel Mesch, professor of English and French and chair of the English department at Yeshiva College, co-authored an article with Dr. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (California State University San Marcos) and Dr. Annette Joseph-Gabriel (University of Michigan) for the American ...

Ross Shepard Kraemer | Penn State University Press | 2020 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern In 2006, a Turkish archeologist discovered a column fragment from a synagogue with a menorah depicted on it in ruins near modern-day Pamukkale. Strikingly, superimposed on the upper portion of the menorah…

By Samuel Gelman Communications & Program Officer As part of the Straus Scholars Program of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Straus Scholars participate in weekly reading groups outside the classroom that cover the great texts of the West and Judaism. On the…

by Sam Gelman Communications & Program Officer On Oct. 6, 2021, Danny Danon, Israel’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, current chairman of World Likud and Yeshiva University visiting professor, launched his new Global Leaders Dialogue Series at Yeshiva University. The…

Tina Weiss, Head Librarian of Hebraica-Judaica On February 1, 2020, Yeshiva University Libraries welcomed Tina Weiss, Mendel Gottesman Library’s new Head Librarian. Tina comes to us from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, where she served as Senior Associate Librarian,…