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Anita Zucker Yeshiva University has announced a $5 million gift from philanthropist Anita Zucker of Charleston, South Carolina, to establish the Anita Zucker Program for Jewish Early Childhood Educators. The generous gift will provide scholarships for qualified Yeshiva University undergraduate ...

Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Twersky On Sept. 11, 2022, the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies hosted a conference marking the 25 th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak (Isadore) Twersky and the publication of his collected writings Ke-Ma’ayan ha-Mitgabber: Law and Spirit in Medieval Jewish Thought…

At a celebration of the Indian festival Diwali, students dressed in traditional garb danced joyously to classical Indian, or Garba, songs with their classmates. The scene was a sign of the school’s growing community of South Asian students.

Yakov Nagen, Sarel Rosenblatt and Assaf Malach | Maggid Books | 2022 Reviewed by Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern And His Name Is One: Healing Judaism's Relations With World Religions [Hebrew], edited by Yakov Nagen, Sarel Rosenblatt and Assaf Malach, is a pathbreaking book. A product of Ohr Torah Stone's ...

For the second consecutive year, the YU men's soccer program has secured a playoff berth in the Skyline Conference and will be competing in the conference championship for the first time in program history. The fifth-seeded Macs secured an i mpressive 4-3 win against the fourth-seeded Mount Saint…

Yeshiva University’s Undergraduate Torah Studies (UTS) department recently hosted IDF Col. Golan Vach, along with the United States Chaplain Corps and Rabbi Josh Blass Mashgiach Ruchani of RIETS, for an inspirational and informative Shabbaton. Over the course of the Shabbat which coincided with ...

Dani Weingarten used melodic intonation therapy to produce sing-song sentences for her client, and then removed the melody to leave behind a more normal speaking pattern to retrain her client's brain to speak with tone and rhythm.

In August 2022, the second Hebrew-English issue of the biblical studies journal Megadim was published by Herzog College in partnership with Yeshiva University Press (YU Press) . Since 1986, the journal has published over sixty issues exclusively in Hebrew, featuring original biblical analyses by ...