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A Message from Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm July 1, 2013 Dear Friends, When we celebrated the ninetieth birthday of my dear father, zikhrono liverakhah, I cited the Mishnah in Avot 5:21, ben tish’im la-shu-ach. Despite the standard explanation that at ninety years old a person is stooped and decrepit, and…
Rabbi Kenneth Brander Appointed Vice President for University and Community Life Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel has appointed Rabbi Kenneth Brander as vice president for university and community life. For the past eight years Brander has served as the inaugural David Mitzner Dean of…
YU School Partnership and Ramaz Co-Host Jewish Philosophy Yom Iyun for High-School Teachers As part of its mission to convene Jewish day school educators for the purpose of collective learning, the Institute for University-School Partnership at Yeshiva University in collaboration with Ramaz and ...
Kanarfogel Named E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law; Wins Goldstein-Goren Book Award Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, of Teaneck, NJ, has been appointed a University Professor at Yeshiva University, the sixth faculty member in the entire University to be granted this ...
School of Social Work Pays Tribute to Faculty Member’s 47-Year Career In 1958, newly-ordained Rabbi Norman Linzer decided to do something different with the semicha he had just received from Yeshiva University-affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). Rather than lead a ...
Rabbi Josh Joseph Appointed Senior Vice President of Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel has appointed Rabbi Josh Joseph as senior vice president of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Josh Joseph In addition to his current responsibilities as chief of staff, Joseph will launch the next phase in the…
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Dr. Ruth Wisse Discuss Jewish Humor at Straus Center Event In his introduction of Dr. Ruth R. Wisse, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik described her as a renowned ...
Students and Recent Graduates Kick Off Summer Break with Sandy Aid Mission It’s been more than seven months since Hurricane Sandy struck the greater New York region and some areas continue to suffer the storm’s ravaging effects. When Elana Polster, a Presidential Fellow at Yeshiva University’s ...
YU High School for Girls Team Takes Fourth in Urban Barcode Project Finals A team of four students from the Samuel H. Wang Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central) triumphed over 40 other groups to compete in the final round of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s NYC Urban Barcode Project…
RIETS to Mark 20th Yahrtzeit of Former Rosh Yeshiva with June 16 Tribute Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical Theological Seminary (RIETS) and RIETS Rabbinic Alumni will present a tribute ceremony for all audiences to mark the 20th yahrtzeit [anniversary of death] of YU Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz…
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