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Michael Reinert ’82 Nine Cardozo alumni were named as Billboard Magazine’s 2020 Top Music Lawyers. In addition, Billboard named Cardozo as one of the top 10 most frequently cited alma maters of the 2020 Top Music Lawyers, along with Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, New York University Law…

Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg On Monday, July 20, 2020, Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg, a Resident Scholar at the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, was a featured lecturer in the Orthodox Union’s Women’s Initiative’s “ 3 Weeks: Ideas and Inspiration.” Over 135 participants ...

Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern On July 21, 2020, Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, Senior Program Officer at The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, delivered a shiur [lecture] titled “The Lion, the Pit and the Wardrobe: Daniel, Joseph, Esther and the Struggles of Being a Diaspora Jew” over…

Maridor Bocalbos Two former students of the Data Analytics and Visualization program have produced an app that allows users to get an instant diagnosis and treatment of an injury. Maridor Bocalbos and Dean Pienica, both class of 2019, developed the app, called Image2Txt.Doc, as master's students in…

Yeshiva University’s new entry-level doctorate in occupational therapy (OTD), offered by the University’s Katz School of Science and Health, can be completed in less than three years with just a bachelor’s degree, and graduates will be eligible to sit for the national certification examination ...

Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm On Sunday, June 28, Yeshiva University, the Rabbinical Council of America and the Orthodox Union collaborated on a commemoration of the shloshim [thirty-day period following burial] for Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm zt"l, former president, Rosh HaYeshiva and chancellor of Yeshiva ...

The Chinese-Jewish Conversation (CJC) held its fifth event, “New frontiers of Torah U-Madda: Chinese and Jewish Ecological Values,” on March 3, 2020, with the support of the Katz School of Science and Health, the Provost’s Colloquium Initiative, and the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish ...

Faculty and students at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology have been actively involved in meeting the challenges presented by COVID-19, from offering telehealth services to their clients at the Parnes Clinic to discussing the important psychological effects that the pandemic has had on people’s…

On Monday, June 22, the Undergraduate Torah Studies Program hosted a virtual siyum [gathering celebrating the completion of a unit of Torah study] and seudas preida [closing banquet] dedicated in memory of Saadya Ehrenpreis, a beloved student from the Makor College Experience Program at Yeshiva ...

Congratulations to the students in Dr. Abram Poczter’s class on business strategy at Sy Syms School of Business upon placing in the GLO-BUS® GlobalTop100® for the week of March 9 through March 15. GLO-BUS runs an online business strategy simulation for colleges and universities, and each week, the…