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On June 24, 2021, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted its inaugural summer seminar for high school students, Jewish and Western Texts in Conversation. Held in Manhattan over the course of two days, 43 students participated in unique interdisciplinary seminars…

Lucy Lang and former YU Museum Director Jacob Wisse The Yeshiva University community joins in mourning the loss of an extraordinary, elegant and generous woman, Mrs. Lucy Lang. Beloved by her family and friends, Mrs. Lang was one of the founders of the Yeshiva University Museum Board of Overseers,…

By Dr. Ronnie Perelis Director, Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs On Tuesday, July 6, and Wednesday, July 7, Rabbi Elie Abadie, M.D., the Senior Rabbi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), spoke about “Jewish life in the New Arab Word: A New Chapter?” in both English (July 6) and…

Cardozo News Professor Jessica Roth Talks to Reuters on Trump Organization Tax Fraud Indictment Professor Ed Zelinsky Comments on SCOTUS Refusal to Hear New Hampshire Tax Case to The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy and Law360 Professor Betsy Ginsberg Focuses on Bureau of Prisons’ Report in…

Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld On Sunday, June 27, 2021, a virtual memorial tribute was held for Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld z"l ’52R, founding rabbi of the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills. Rabbi Schonfeld’s rabbinical career brought enormous benefits to his local community and the Jewish world at large, and…

Cardozo News Professor Ekow Yankah Focuses on Structural Racism in Hospitals in Salon Professor Leslie Salzman Talks with Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter about Britney Spears Conservatorship Case Professor Rebekah Diller Comments about Britney Spears Conservatorship Case in Elle ...

The Katz School of Science and Health is partnering with ISACA, a global learning organization and technology association, to provide Katz students with educational, training and networking opportunities for cybersecurity careers. ISACA will offer its CSX Cybersecurity Practitioner (CSX-P) ...

Leon R. Kass | Yale University Press | 2021 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern With Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus, Leon Kass, currently the dean of faculty at Shalem College in Israel, continues his learned and eloquent readings of the Hebrew Bible, which started with the Book of Genesis and…

Rabbi Mark Wildes Rabbi Mark Wildes is an adjunct lecturer in the Rabbinic Training Program at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), from which he received semicha [rabbinic ordination]. He is also founder and director of Manhattan Jewish Experience (MJE), described as “a warm and…

Cardozo News Professor Rebekah Diller Discusses the Britney Spears Conservatorship Case in the New York Times Professor Leslie Salzman Talks with NPR about the Britney Spears Conservatorship Case Professor Kate Shaw Comments on SCOTUS in The Boston Globe Professor Ekow Yankah Comments on Supreme ...