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North America's Largest Jewish Book Sale Runs February 5-26 The students of Yeshiva University will present their annual Seforim Sale, North America’s largest Jewish book sale, from February 5-26, 2017, in Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Ave on YU’s Wilf Campus in Manhattan. The sale is operated ...

Jewish Educators Can Now Begin Advanced Degrees During Any Semester To make its graduate programs even more accessible to Jewish educators worldwide, Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration recently announced that students will be able to enroll in its ...

Recognition Honors Lifetime Contribution to Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work Dr. Gary Stein, professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, has been selected for the 2017 Career Achievement Award from the Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network. Dr. Gary Stein Each year, the ...

For New Student at Wurzweiler, A Quest to Improve Lives This January, Mark Fishman is making the trek from sunny Los Angeles, California, and a career in sports writing to New York City and an MSW program at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. “For about a year now, I’ve been thinking about…

Students to Engage in Humanitarian Work and Service Learning During Winter Missions in Israel, Houston and New York City More than 50 outstanding undergraduate students will participate in service learning, experiential education, and humanitarian aid missions in the United States and Israel during…

Ferkauf Students Found Chapter of Psychologists for Social Responsibility As doctoral candidates in the clinical health psychology program at Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Michelle Chen and Cait Sleight treated a broad range of patients during their yearlong clinical…

Two-Day Course Prepares Couples to Weather the Challenges of Pulpit Life David Mark, MS, LCSW, presenting “The Art of Science and Love.” On December 25 and 26, 2016, the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) sponsored a two-day couples workshop titled “The Art of Science and Love” at…

Bequest From Dr. Joseph and Faye Glatt Estate Will Support Innovative Programming at Center for Israel Studies Yeshiva University has received a bequest of $1 million from the Dr. Joseph and Faye Glatt Estate to create a new program housed in the Center for Israel Studies (CIS), titled The Joseph…

Einstein Secures More Than $160 Million in NIH Grants for Major Research Projects in 2016 Investigators at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine were awarded more than $160 million from the National Institutes of Health in federal fiscal year 2016. The grants provide critical ...

Using Network Science, Yeshiva College Students’ Research Tracks an Epidemic’s Path By now, most Americans are familiar with the Zika virus. The epidemic, which is especially dangerous for unborn children, has proven to be one of the most difficult to contain in recent history—and also one of the…