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RIETS students have a unique opportunity: access to the academic and cultural resources of Yeshiva University and its campuses in Washington Heights, midtown Manhattan, and the Bronx. They benefit from exposure to internationally renowned faculty and research facilities in many academic disciplines.

Yeshiva University’s expertise in general and religious knowledge, combined with Torah U-Madda — the study of God’s Word and God’s World — is what makes the RIETS/ Yeshiva University partnership so fruitful and the RIETS musmakh so unique.

BATEI MIDRASHOT

Talmidim can envelop themselves in the Kol Torah of the Main Beit Midrash or choose one of the more intimate settings of the satellite batei midrashot. Roshei yeshiva, seganei mashgichim, and shoalim u'meishivim are always on hand for questions and assistance.

With the recent opening of the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study, RIETS is now proud to have a state-of-the-art central beit midrash seating for 500 students.

THE GLUECK CENTER

The Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Center for Jewish Study, dedicated in September 2009, is the latest addition to the Wilf Campus of Yeshiva University.

Connected to the Mendel Gottesman Library through the Nagel Family Atrium and Student Commons, the Glueck Center encompasses six floors and lower-level archives that now house:

• a two-story, 500-seat Beit Midrash
• two lecture halls
• nine classrooms
• three conference rooms and a seminar room
• three student lounges
• a faculty lounge, Dean’s suite, and fifty faculty and administrative offices
• library archival space
• a patio and gardens

The Glueck Center is equipped with state-of-the-art technology which offers flexible and versatile spaces for classes, lectures and events, meetings, conferences, symposia, and group study. The Center will be an exceptional environment for study and scholarship.

Many structures within the Glueck Center have been named to honor benefactors. These include the Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Beit Midrash; the Michael and Fiona Scharf Aron Hakodesh; the Drs. Felix and Miriam Glaubach Ner Tamid; the Nagel Family Atrium and Student Commons; the Samuel and Claire A. Mozel Floor; the Helen and Irving Spatz Lecture Hall for Jewish Study; the Rabbi M. Steven Dworken Classroom; the Lili and William Goldberg Family Student Lounge; the Rabbi Charlop Wing; the Koschitzky Family Wing; the Eleanor and Harry Friedman Seminar Room; the Martin and Sarah Baumel Conference Room.

Learn more about Glueck Center sponsorship opportunities.

THE CAMPUS NEIGHBORHOOD

YU's Wilf Campus, in the northern Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, provides RIETS students with many benefits and convenient facilities and services.

The historic neighborhood offers a vibrant and enduring Jewish community, kosher restaurants, and services for students. It is home to many Orthodox families, young couples, and young men who make up YU’s vibrant and supportive yeshiva community.

Shabbatot feature ruach-filled meals in the university cafeteria, a packed beit midrash of mitpalelim, and shiurim by roshei yeshiva and guest lecturers. These inspiring shabbatot help define the yeshiva experience.

The YU Eruv website includes links to community mailing lists and information about neighborhood news and services.

INFORMATION RESOURCES

Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library—a six-story, block-long central library building at the Wilf Campus—houses the Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica-Judaica, collections of sifrei Halakha, Biblical and Responsa literature, manuscripts, and rare early printed books.

RIETS’ reference collections are also housed in the Harry Fischel Synagogue-Study Hall, the Rabbi Hyman Muss Torah Learning Center and Beit Midrash Complex, the Ben Zion Study Hall, and the Furst Hall Beit Midrash. The main reference collections are open to RIETS students twenty four hours a day, year round. Students can access these works on the honor system any time they please, and the students themselves maintain these libraries.

Landowne-Bloom Library is a social work collection that includes materials on aging and social welfare. Holdings also include such resources as Sephardic studies collections, archival records of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and New York, and rare books and manuscripts

Among other networks, YU libraries are part of the Research Libraries Group and the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN), which provides the capability to handle Hebrew script on line.

The Yeshiva University Museum in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan is a prominent cultural enterprise conveying Jewish history and the artifacts of Jewish ritual and observance. It presents innovative exhibits reflecting Jewish life through the humanities, art, architecture, music, literature, science, history, and anthropology. It fulfills its mission as a teaching museum through community outreach programs, satellite galleries, and cultural events, including crafts festivals, concerts, and children's workshops.

VISITING SCHOLARS

Each year, RIETS hosts visiting roshei yeshiva, chief rabbis of Israel and other countries, and additional outstanding Torah scholars.

As a major university, YU hosts distinguished academicians and representatives from the arts and humanities, education, government, law, medicine, science, and industry, providing an exciting forum for exchanging information and ideas.