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Donation in Memory of Leon H. Charney Will Support Center for Israel Studies Honorary degree recipient Tzili Charney speaking at YU's 2017 Commencement Yeshiva University has received a gift of $1 million from Tzili Charney, in honor of her husband, Leon H. Charney, to support the Center for Israel…

Yeshiva University Students Excavate Biblical Hometown of Goliath on Israel Summer Course Spending the hottest days of Israeli summer digging through gravel and topsoil isn’t easy—but Meredith Shapiro is loving every minute of it. Students Moses Dyckman, Meredith Shapiro, Rebecca Zami and Professor…

Wurzweiler Professor Gary Stein: What We Can Learn From Canadian Policymaking Unlike many of my fellow Americans, who don’t usually give much thought to our neighbor to the north, I have always been interested in Canadian culture, politics, and geography. This began in my childhood, as I longed to…

Yeshiva University Grants Tenure to 17 Faculty; Two Appointed Full Professors The Yeshiva University Board of Trustees recently awarded tenure to 17 faculty members across the University’s undergraduate and graduate schools. At Yeshiva College, Dr. David Lavinsky, associate professor of English; Dr…

Dr. Stephen Glicksman and Students Co-Author Article Suggesting Dialectic Approach to Policymaking When it comes to creating policies to help individuals with intellectual disabilities, which is the best approach: to advocate that they receive exactly the same rights and privileges as any other ...

CJF Offers Array of Inspirational Shiurim and Programming for Tisha B’Av and Three Weeks As the Jewish calendar passes through the summer months, the period colloquially known as “The Three Weeks” is being observed through various stages of mourning over the destruction of the two Temples and other…

Yitzchak Shmalo Shares Original Research on Dynamical Systems In June, Yitzchak Shmalo '16YC presented original research at a key international conference in the field of chaos theory, an area of mathematics that studies nonlinear topics that are effectively impossible to predict or control because…

Beginning July 12, Second Session Includes Online and On Campus Classes Hundreds of current and visiting students are immersed in Yeshiva University’s rich selection of courses for Summer 2017, offered in two sessions by the Mordecai D. and Monique C. Katz School of Graduate and Professional…

First Cohort of RIETS/Ferkauf Mental Health Counseling Program Celebrates Completion A pioneering joint mental health counseling program offered to students in Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, in conjunction with the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, recently ...

Dynamic Campus in Jerusalem Links Yeshiva University to the State of Israel The Caroline and Joseph Gruss Institute in Jerusalem has had a busy and exciting spring and early summer, with reunions, graduations, major events and recognitions of important alumni. This year’s reunions for the classes…