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By Samuel Gelman Communications and Program Officer The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought is proud to announce that the Jack Miller Center, a nonprofit organization that works to teach students the history and principles at the heart of American political life, has ...

Cardozo News Professor Rebecca Ingber Appointed Counselor on International Law at the U.S. State Department Professor Betsy Ginsberg and Civil Rights Clinic Win Settlement in Louisiana Prison Case ( Associated Press) Faculty Scholarship & News Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum held a book…

In September, a new student publication appeared, Kol HaYeshiva, which, according to its vision statement, describes itself as a “talmidim [students]-run news source for everything emanating from our Yeshiva.” Its inaugural issue contains an interview with Laizer Kornwasser, a popular and effective…

What began 13 years ago as a local effort to help Yeshiva University students meet their life mates has today grown into a major relationship-building program that serves the global Jewish community. In the process, the popular YUConnects dating resource has helped almost 10,000 Jewish Orthodox ...

Cardozo News Professor Ekow Yankah Featured in HBO Max Documentary Series Discussing Exploitation of College Athletes Professor Kate Shaw Talks to ABC News About Lawsuits Filed in Texas 3L Student Tae Chang Wins First Place in 2021 American Journal of Mediation National Dispute Resolution Writing…

On October 31, 2016, the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, under the directorship of Dr. Steven Fine, held a conference titled “ Agnon’s Stories of the Land of Israel: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of S.Y. Agnon’s Nobel Prize.” The Center organized the conference behalf of the Joseph…

Two YU professors at the Sy Syms School of Business now have current writing gigs with Psychology Today: Dr. Tamar Avnet (professor of marketing and chair of the marketing department) and ​ Dr. Travis Tae Oh (assistant professor of marketing). Dr. Tamar Avnet Dr. Avnet’s business expertise and ...

Yeshiva University continues to rise in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best College Rankings released this week and has secured the 68th spot – rising from No. 76 in 2021 and moving up 29 spots in the last two years. YU also placed No. 33 in the Best Value Schools category, up from 54th…

Dr. Amy Grinberg , a 2018 graduate of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, recently received the Excellence in Clinical Health Psychology by an Early Career Professional Award from the Society for Health Psychology, Division 38 of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Grinberg works for…

Click on the image for a flipbook version of the View from YU. From the President My Dear Friends, Welcome to all our students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends who have been back in person since the beginning of the fall semester. This season on the Jewish calendar is infused with the spirit of…