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Dr. Joseph Angel This semester, Dr. Joseph Angel, associate professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva College, is teaching The Architecture of Election: Temple Architecture in Judaism and Western Thought, which focuses on the meaning behind the architectural realities of the temple in Jewish and ...

On Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, Stephanie Gross, electronic reserves and scholarly communication librarian at the Mendel Gottesman Library, gave an online Lunch & Learn presentation jointly with the New York Metropolitan Area chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) about the work of…

The Katz School of Science and Health’s virtual speech clinic is offering free speech, language and cognitive therapy to Yeshiva University faculty, staff, students, alumni and their families residing in New York State. Through the virtual clinic, licensed clinical faculty and graduate clinicians…

Life is always full of tensions between what one believes and how one is supposed to act in the world. As YU graduates transition from college into the workplace, they have to face these kinds of dilemmas directly: How can one excel professionally while adhering to Torah values? How can conflicts…

Sara Lunden and Katherine Fustich, 2L students in the Bet Tzedek Civil Litigation Clinic, are working hard to help New Yorkers who need homecare services through Medicaid. They submitted comments in response to the NY State Department of Health’s proposed amendment to the New York Medicaid program…

An online cybersecurity master’s degree focusing on threat mitigation, detection and defense has been launched by the Katz School of Science and Health. Applications for the program are now being accepted for the spring term, which starts on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. For more information and to apply…

On September 9, 2020, Active Minds@YU (AM@YU) held its kickoff event, “How to Get Excited For the Unique Upcoming Year,” a Zoom session featuring insights and tips from mental health and spiritual experts on how to navigate the twists and turns of what will surely be the most daunting academic ...

This semester, Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, and Dr. Jacob Wisse, director of the Yeshiva University Museum, are co-teaching The Image and the Idea, a class on the relationship between Jewish thought and art. YU News sat…

Rabbi Yehuda Sarna(courtesy of the UAE Embassy to the US) At a historic moment in which the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel are normalizing diplomatic relations, Dr. Eliezer Schnall, director of the Yeshiva College Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, welcomed Rabbi Yehuda Sarna ’01YC…

Yeshiva University was named #76 on the National Universities list of the U.S. News & World Report 2021 Best Colleges Ranking, rising from #97 in 2020. The new rankings reflect enhancements in several institutional areas. The school also ranks #54 in the category of Best Value Schools. The U.S…