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Wurzweiler School of Social Work alum Jonah Simcha Chaim Muskat-Brown ('14) recently published his new book, Expanding Potential: Journeying Beyond Who We Think We Are. Published by Mosaica Press, the book takes a deep dive into the topic of human potential, exploring themes such as empowerment ...
Yeshiva University LibraryBM675.O25 S35 1953 It is traditional for Jews to pray for the welfare of the country they reside in and for its leaders to be blessed with health and wisdom to rule justly. Regime change is often a cause for potential instability in any form of government, thus it is an ...
"Every faith-based university in the country has the right to work with its students, including its LGBTQ students, to establish the clubs, places and spaces that fit within its faith tradition. Yeshiva University simply seeks that same right of self-determination. The Supreme Court has laid out…
Zvika Klein at the Yeshiva University Wilf Campus On September 13, 2022, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in partnership with the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, hosted a discussion with Zvika Klein, Jewish world analyst for the Jerusalem Post . Klein…
Community Event Draws Strong Attendance from Washington Heights Residents and Local Leaders On September 8, Yeshiva University and members of the Latino community of Washington Heights came together for Nosotros, an art exhibit and concert that celebrated the common heritage and cultural…
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein | Brown Judaic Studies | 2021 Reviewed by Stu Halpern In Studies in Rabbinic Narratives, Volume 1 , Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, a professor at NYU and renowned scholar of the narrative art of the Talmud, has edited a wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating collection of…
Do you remember marching with your friends at the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) rallies in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s? You can now easily recapture those days of activism, the era of the fight to free Soviet Jews trapped in Russia under the Communist regime, simply by using the internet…
Is there life beyond our galaxy? What are the effects of dark matter and dark energy? Could our universe have come about through a previous universe? In a YU-hosted panel, "Unlocking the Mysteries of Space," experts discussed the revelations and ramifications of recent images captured by NASA's ...
For Immediate Release: September 9, 2022 Media Contact: Hanan Eisenman | hanan.eisenman@yu.edu | 714-794-4288 WASHINGTON – Justice Sotomayor has just ruled that Yeshiva University, America’s flagship Jewish university, can continue to live out its religious mission without government interference…
Wurzweiler School of Social Work joint MSW/Ph.D. student Allysha Bryant published a piece in New York Amsterdam News on " Voting: Health, the homeless and community." "For homeless individuals, exercising their right to vote isn't as simple as heading down to the polls and casting a ballot," Bryant…

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