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Reception Honors Yeshiva University Employees Celebrating Milestone Anniversaries On Thursday, November 12, President Richard M. Joel and the Human Resources Department hosted a program and reception honoring YU employees on the Manhattan campuses who celebrated milestone anniversaries during 2015…

MTA LEAD Gives Teenage Entrepreneurs a Head Start MTA LEAD (Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Advisement and Development) is a unique program designed to provide Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy/Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA) students with lasting business and communal leadership skills…

Twenty Years After His Assassination, Academic Conference Hosted by Yeshiva University Reflects on Rabin's Lasting Impact On November 1, Yeshiva University's Center for Israel Studies (CIS) hosted an academic conference, titled "Yitzhak Rabin: Twenty Years After", on the Wilf Campus to commemorate…

More than 1,000 Join Yeshiva University Students in Song and Prayer at Times Square Kumzitz On November 1, Yeshiva University students hosted a moving kumzitz [concert] in support of Israel on the Red Steps in Times Square. Led by student Aryeh Tiefenbrunn on his guitar and the Y-Studs, YU’s…

Dr. Ben Chouake, Norman Sternthal, Mark Wilf and Rabbi Dr. Herbert Dobrinsky to be Honored at YU's 91st Hanukkah Convocation The Honorable Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will be the keynote speaker and receive an honorary degree at Yeshiva University’s 91st Annual Hanukkah Convocation and Dinner at the…

Washington Heights Street Renamed for Soviet Jewry Activist Jacob Birnbaum On October 18, a street in Yeshiva University’s own neighborhood of Washington Heights, New York, was renamed to honor the memory of Jacob Birnbaum, a prominent activist who began his monumental work on behalf of Soviet…

YU Conference to Celebrate Israel's Fifth Prime Minister and Explore Global Impact of His Assassination Yeshiva University's Center for Israel Studies announced today that it will host an academic conference for all audiences to commemorate the 20 th anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak ...

Stern College for Women Professor Marina Holz Featured on WABC-TV Special Dr. Marina Holz, the Doris and Dr. Ira Kukin Chair in Biology and professor of biology at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, was featured in WABC-TV's recent special, "Breast Cancer: Promising Research and Options…

Ninth Annual Student Medical Ethics Society Conference to Spotlight Medical and Jewish Perspectives on Pediatric Healthcare Yeshiva University's Student Medical Ethics Society (MES) announced today that it will be hosting its ninth annual Fuld Family conference, titled Protecting Their Future ...

Students Enliven Holiday Celebrations in Nearly 50 Synagogues Across North America on Torah Tours This Simchat Torah, more than 250 Yeshiva University undergraduates traveled to synagogues across the United States and Canada to enrich holiday celebrations by sharing divrei Torah, youth programming…