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By Zvi Erenyi Collection Development and Reference Librarian Mendel Gottesman Library On March 2, 2021 ,at the third in a series of Yeshiva University Libraries’ Spring Book Talks, Dr. Joanne Jacobson read excerpts from her recently published Every Last Breath: A Memoir of Two Illnesses (Salt Lake…

On Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College and Crisis & Hope: YU Voices co-hosted a conversation between Dr. Joanne Jacobson, professor emerita of English, former associate dean for academic affairs and former director of the Honors Program,…

Dear YU Community, As we mark the one year anniversary of COVID-19 and its impact on our community, we have discovered new powers of resilience and new depths of gratitude that have generated fresh ideas to meet our challenges and a strengthened faith to meet our future. In the March issue of the…

Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg Devotees of the Harry Potter books and the fantasy genre in general may not know that there is a Judaic angle on the boy wizard, the Muggle world and a Hogwarts education courtesy of Rabbi Moshe Rosenberg, who attended the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University…

ISSUE 21 • March 15, 2021 Note from the Executive Director What you do at your internship this summer is much more important than where you are doing it. A family business, a startup or volunteering with purpose can be equally as impressive as being at Apple, Morgan Stanley, Accenture or Deloitte…

Dr. Shalom Holtz, professor of Bible and associate dean for academic affairs at Yeshiva College and Dr. Aaron Koller, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Yeshiva University, contributed letters to American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters. This is a national nonpartisan campaign…

In The News Dean Melanie Leslie Appoints Jeanne Estilo Widerka Associate Dean of Admissions “It has been a true pleasure to work with this team and to bring so many talented students to Cardozo and to watch them thrive and achieve,” said Dean Widerka. “I am honored to serve Cardozo, and I am ...

By Sara Schapiro ’21S Dr. Matt Goldish Both young bright eyed students eager to learn as well as accomplished scholars interested in adding to their knowledge crowded onto the Zoom platform on Thursday, March 11, 2021, to hear from Dr. Matt Goldish of Ohio State University speak about the hakhamim…

On Wednesday, March 10, 2021, Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, gave the annual memorial shiur on the double yahrtzeits of Rav Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor (125th) and Rabbi Dr. Samuel Belkin (45th), titled “When the Stakes are High: On the Connection between Chametz & Matzoh.” The…

On Sunday, March 3, 2021, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted an intellectually stimulating and informative lecture by Dr. Rita Koganzon, associate director of the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia, for the Straus Scholars…