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Yeshiva University Students Mobilize Houston Flood Relief Efforts When catastrophic floods slammed Houston last week, they left a trail of devastation in their wake, and the city’s Jewish community in the southwestern neighborhood of Willow Meadows was hit hard. But within hours of the storms ...

Yeshiva University Marches in Support of Israel at Annual Parade More than 1,500 students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of Yeshiva University marched up Fifth Avenue, singing, cheering and waving flags, flanked on either side by applauding crowds, saluting Israel’s 67th year of independence…

Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies Celebrates Newest Cohort Yeshiva University’s Graduate Program in Advanced Talmudic Studies (GPATS) held its 13th annual commencement ceremony on May 21 in the Lea and Leon Eisenberg Beit Midrash. This year, ten women proudly received their degrees…

Nine Yeshiva University Undergraduates Recognized for Exceptional Academic Achievements More than 600 students from Yeshiva University’s undergraduate schools received their degrees at YU’s 84th Commencement exercises, held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 17. Nine of the ...

Yeshiva University Celebrates 84th Commencement Hundreds of students from Yeshiva University’s undergraduate schools were presented with their degrees in front of thousands of proud family and friends at YU’s 84th Commencement exercises, held at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Sunday…

Sixth Annual Stern Senior Art Show Opens at Yeshiva University Museum Graduating studio art majors of Stern College for Women presented their work at the Sixth Annual Senior Art Show opening reception on Thursday, May 14. Titled Stop. Watch., the multimedia exhibition features selections from 12 ...

First Woman Dean of Cardozo Law, and First Cardozo Graduate Appointed President Richard M. Joel has announced the appointment of Melanie Leslie as dean of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law effective July 1. She will be the seventh dean of the law school, the first woman and the first Cardozo ...

New Graduates Will Soar in High-Flying Worlds of Finance and Technology Many college students flock to New York each year hoping to line up a dream job in the city’s signature industries of finance and technology after graduation. However, in a highly competitive and often saturated market, landing…

Straus Center May 31 Conference Features Prominent Political Commentators, Academics and Writers Yeshiva University’s Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in partnership with Mosaic and the Tikvah Find, will present a conference, titled “What America Owes the Jews, What…

Sy Syms School of Business Joins Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society; 29 Students Inducted On May 4, 29 students at Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business were joined by their parents and faculty in Belfer Hall to celebrate their induction into the school’s inaugural chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma…