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Day School Leaders Pool Knowledge and Ideas as Part of YU School-Partnership’s Critical Friends Groups Fourteen principals, heads-of-school and assistant principals from Jewish day schools across the country came together to share experiences, reflect on their own practice and hone their leadership…
Senator Jeffrey Klein Helps Secure Funds for Einstein Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab, Visits YU New York State Senator Jeffrey Klein visited ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ on November 17, meeting with YU President Richard M. Joel and his government relations team. Klein, who represents parts of Bronx and ...
Rabbi Benjamin Blech on Wealth and the Occupy Wall Street Movement I wish the Occupy Wall Street movement would be a little clearer about what they're protesting. Even as it continues to grow and gain followers outside of New York, with satellite protests in more than 60 American cities as it ...
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, Dr. Nir Barzilai Named to The Forward 50 The Jewish Daily Forward recently published its Forward 5o—an annual list of 50 Jewish-Americans who have made a significant impact on the Jewish story in the past year. This year's list includes Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, instructor of Bible…
Chief Rabbi of the Israeli Army Visits ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, Speaks to Students Rafi Peretz, Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), visited the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Wilf Campus on Wednesday, November 16. [flickrslideshow acct_name="yeshivauniversity" id="72157628017465061"] After meeting with faculty and…
YU Students Learn ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Israel’s Film Industry at Private Screening A range of emotions swept through the audience of more than 70 undergraduate students as they laughed, cried and thoroughly enjoyed a private screening of three short films from Jerusalem’s Ma’aleh School of Television, Film &…
High School Seniors Get a Firsthand Look at YU’s Academic Excellence and Vibrant Jewish Atmosphere Hundreds of high school seniors and their parents had the opportunity to learn about ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s unique dual curriculum of an exceptional Jewish Studies program and a first class liberal arts…
¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Jewish Studies Faculty to Present at Conferences, Serve as Visiting Scholars in San Francisco Area Nearly a dozen members of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s faculty will participate in this year’s annual conferences of the American School of Oriental Research, the Society of Biblical ...
Panel on College Anti-Semitism Discusses Israel Advocacy on Campus Speaking before a capacity crowd, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ College senior Chanan Reitblat reflected on a semester of anguish and humiliation spent abroad. “When I went to St. Andrews University last semester to study chemistry, I never expected to…
Torah Umadda Week Examines the Interplay between Modern Science and Torah Scholarship If you could turn on a light just by thinking about it, would doing so be permissible on Shabbat according to halacha [Jewish law]? That question was one of many students were asked to consider during a lecture ...