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¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ mourns the passing of Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz ’46YC, ’49R, Av Beth Din [Chief Presiding Judge] of the Beth Din of America. Rabbi Schwartz was a distinguished rabbi and leader of American Jewry for over 60 years. Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz Born in 1925, he was raised in Newark…

Amb. Danny Danon ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is pleased to announce that Israel’s former representative to the United Nations has joined the Department of Political Science. In this role, Ambassador Danon will focus his attention on building bridges in the world community as well as the legal and diplomatic…

Virtual Program Offered to People from Across the Country and Around the World On Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ was proud to celebrate its 96th Annual Hanukkah Dinner. Reimagined this year as a virtual event, the Hanukkah Dinner featured an interactive program allowing guests to choose…

Taken from the press release sent out on Dec. 9, 2020, by the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Dr. Lauren Fitzgerald The National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing’s Ron Maxwell Award Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Lauren Fitzgerald, professor of English and director…

By Zvi Erenyi Collection Development and Reference Librarian Mendel Gottesman Library Chana Stiefel ’90S On Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Libraries concluded its fall book series with an event co-sponsored by the Stern College for Women Education Program and Education Club and moderated…

Dr. Shalom Holtz, professor of Bible and associate dean for academic affairs at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ College, has co-edited Contextualizing Jewish Temples with Dr. Tova Ganzel, lecturer in Bible and halacha [Jewish law] at Bar-Ilan University. The volume is number 64 in the The Brill Reference Library of…

The humble fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, may be small in scale, but it is a rock star in the research worlds of genetics, physiology, microbial pathogenesis and evolution. As of 2017, six Nobel prizes have been awarded for research using Drosophila. Among the many champions of this tiny but…

The ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ community continues to mourn the loss of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, the renowned scholar, teacher and leader who enlightened world Jewry and global leaders. Over the past month, many at YU have voiced their admiration and sadness, including Dr. Berman in an address to…

Data analytics students at the Katz School of Science and Health have designed an intelligent system that identifies and indexes hate speech on the web. The team—Jacob Goodman ’20K, Qihua Zhu ’20K and Jeeho Bae ’20K—analyzed an online database, called Hatebase, which provides a taxonomy or ...

The advent of COVID-19 shut down many things, one of which was the summer positions ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ students had set up to improve their knowledge and enhance their résumés. However, Dr. Noam Wasserman, dean of the Sy Syms School of Business; Dr. Selma Botman, provost and vice president of ...