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Martha Minow | W. W. Norton | 2020 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern “Forgiveness encourages people to take the perspectives of others, to understand the larger pressures and structures affecting others’ actions, and to prioritize creating a shared future over holding on to resentments from the…

In The News President Biden names Prof. Michelle Adams to presidential commission on SCOTUS Dean Melanie Leslie announces new faculty appointments: Alma Magaña and Pamela Foohey Hallelujah Lewis-Flannory ’20 receives 2020 David Rudenstine Postgraduate Fellowship Andrea Barrientos and Sadie…

From Paul Glassman Director, Scholarly and Cultural Resources The Office of the Provost and Yeshiva University Libraries are pleased to announce publication of the Catalog of University Authors 2021. This catalog recognizes scholarly and creative work at Yeshiva University from March 2020 through…

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman speaking at the Crossroads of Civilization Museum in Dubai, UAE On Wednesday, April 7, 2021, Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, joined Jewish and Arab leaders in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the first Yom HaShoah commemoration in an Arab country. The ...

Ted Comet There are few YU families that have the opportunity for four generations of students and alumni to share with one another the values they were taught in YU. Recently, YU News met with Theodore “Ted” Comet, the 96-year-old leader of the American Jewish community who is the mastermind…

By Sarah Wapner Impact and Recruitment Officer Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought In times of turmoil and civil unrest, people have a predictable tendency to return to George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984. Indeed, we are living through such a tumultuous period. However, I…

By Rebecca Schwartz Yeshiva University High School for Boys Tova Rosenberg The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys ( MTA) is proud to announce that Mrs. Tova Fish-Rosenberg, MTA Director of Hebrew Language and Special Programs and Founder of Names, Not Numbers…

ISSUE 23 • April 12, 2021 Note from the Executive Director You have the offer...or more than one…now what? How do you have the bird’s-eye view about what really goes on at a company and to know which offer to accept? This is the time to take a moment and think about which employer checks the boxes…

ISSUE 2 • April 2021 Note from the Director As we pause from our busy lives on this Yom HaShoah 2021, we remember our six million brothers and sisters, the kedoshim who were slaughtered – in the gas chambers, killing fields, ghettos, and labor camps – by the German Nazis and their collaborators. We…

In The News USA Today on the Focus on George Floyd's Drug Addiction in Chauvin Trial Yankah also joined WBEZ's Reset Podcast to discuss criminal justice reform in light of the Chauvin trial. Professor Kate Levine Assesses Impact of Video Footage in Chauvin Trial in The Washington Post Billboard…