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On Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, YU’s Student Holocaust Education Movement (SHEM) presented its annual remembrance of Kristallnacht. Often referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Kristallnacht was a state-sanctioned pogrom that visited destruction on Jewish communities throughout Germany, Austria and the…

Social work students will learn to leverage the latest technology to benefit clients in need of guidance, thanks to an innovative partnership—the first of its kind—between Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work in New York City and Eleos Health, a Boston-based digital behavioral ...

Title page of the first quarto (1600) On Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, Dr. Paul Cantor, the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of the English Department at the University of Virginia, delivered a lecture on William Shakespeare’s Henry V to the Straus Scholars of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for…

This year is the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, a state-sponsored pogrom, considered by many historians as a prelude to the Holocaust. On Nov. 9, 1938, and crossing into the next day, waves of terror and destruction were unleashed on Jewish communities across ...

Mollie Sharfman Mollie Sharfman ’10S has had an unusual path laid out for her in life. It is not one she would have chosen had she known all the details, but it is one which nevertheless has strengthened and deepened her faith both in herself and in the belief that “even in the hard times, G-d is…

Nicole Butler is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in the Clinical Psychology (Health Emphasis) program; she successfully defended her dissertation this past September. She also earned her M.A. in psychology at Ferkauf. She recently won an award for her headache…

As happened with countless other college undergraduates, COVID-19 abruptly cancelled the summer internship plans of Rachel Doretsky ’22SB and Evan Holzer ’21SB. But Doretsky, Holzer and 33 other top Yeshiva University undergrads were rescued by the YU Consulting Force/Innovation Lab internship ...

By Dr. Danielle Wozniak Dorothy and David I. Schachne Dean Wurzweiler School of Social Work (Published in The Daily News, Nov. 11, 2020) Dr. Danielle Wozniak My father rarely talked about his experiences as a soldier in World War II. He only shared images, flashes of memory without context:…

Drs. Tracy A. Prout, Katie Aafjes-van Doorn and Vera Békés of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, working with Ferkauf students Kathryn Whistler, Thomas Kui and Isabelle Christman-Cohen (as well as collaborators from the University of Pisa, Italy, and the University of Haifa, Israel) ...

Yeshiva University mourns the passing of the revered posek, Harav Dovid Feinstein zt"l. Rav Feinstein was born in Luban in 1929 and emigrated to the United States in 1936 with his illustrious father, Harav Moshe Feinstein zt"l. After the passing of Rav Moshe, Rav Dovid Feinstein assumed the ...