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Prof. Gary Stein Gary Stein, professor of social work and director of gerontology and palliative care at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has received two new grants, one to continue his research in the experiences of LGBTQ patients and families in the health care system and the second to provide…

Miriam and Felix Glaubach Dr. Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, announced this week that Drs. Felix and Miriam Glaubach have donated $10 million to support the work of the Yeshiva University Career Center, which will be renamed The Shevet Glaubach Center for Career Strategy and ...

Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin On Jan. 25, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College welcomed Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin, instructor at YU’s Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies and Sy Syms School of Business, and director of education for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth,…

Our name “Israel” emerged from a struggle. Yaakov Avinu wrestled with an angel and the angel suddenly had to leave (Bereishit 32:25-27). We would have expected Yaakov to breathe a sigh of relief and move on quickly to easier tasks. Yet, Yaakov did something surprising: He refused to relinquish the…

Sapience is developing a novel peptide, beta-catenin antagonist, to treat colorectal cancer. Avi Strauss ’20K, a recent graduate of the Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship program at the Katz School of Science and Health, has performed a detailed market analysis on a new drug therapy for…

Translating the Americas: Early Modern Jewish Writing on the New World Last May, Dr. Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies and director of the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs, along with Dr. Flora…

My Dear Friends, While one “governs in prose,” one inaugurates in poetry. Amanda Gorman’s powerful reading at the inauguration earlier this week is the latest in a long line of celebrated poets who ushered in a new President dating back to Robert Frost in 1961. At the inauguration of President John…

The annual P*LAW Week, sponsored by the Center for Public Service Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, took place from Jan. 19-22, 2021. Though a virtual event series this year, as in years past the proceedings were filled with thought-provoking panels and included a range of discussions…

Shimon ’08YUHS, ’12YC and Davida Fried ’12S, ’13A had the good fortune of meeting each other in 2008 at the ever-romantic Sarachek basketball tournament on the Wilf Campus of Yeshiva University. Davida came to Washington Heights with her senior class from her home in Brookline, Massachusetts, and…

NEW YORK, January 19, 2021—Dr. Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva University, and Dr. Philip O. Ozuah, President and CEO of Montefiore Medicine, signed a new agreement launching a joint Yeshiva University-Albert Einstein College of Medicine B.A./B.S.-M.D. program for highly qualified high school ...